Binary dance: a white dwarf system explains mysterious radio pulses across the Milky Way
January 30, 2026At least one of the mysterious blinking radio signals first discovered at ICRAR in 2022 seems to come from a stellar corpse tightly orbiting an ancient star, accorrding to new research from PhD student Csanad Horvath at our Curtin University Media node.
Ken & Julie Michael Prize 2025 awarded
December 2, 2025The 2024 award recipients are Tyrone O'Doherty from ICRAR/Curtin and Andrei Ristea from ICRAR/UWA.
The DEVILS in the details: new research reveals how the cosmic landscape impacts the galaxy lifecycle
November 26, 2025A team of astronomers from the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) has released new data from a large galaxy evolution survey exploring the connection between where a galaxy lives and how its properties change with time.
Vale Dr Erica Smyth AC
November 25, 2025We were saddened to learn of the recent passing of Professor Govind Swarup, a valued colleague and pioneering radio astronomer. Professor Govind Swarup, a torch-bearer for building scientific capacity in independent India, passed away in Pune on 7 September 2020 after a short illness.
A new, expansive view of the Milky Way reveals our Galaxy in unprecedented radio colour
October 29, 2025Astronomers from the International Centre of Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have created the largest low-frequency radio colour image of the Milky Way ever assembled.
Universe “warmed up” before it “lit up”, ICRAR researchers find
September 30, 2025Astronomers hunting for the oldest light in the Universe find that the cosmos was warmer than expected before it “lit up”.
