Physicists may need to come up with a new theory for how the universe works, after a dark energy experiment has produced confounding results.

Evidence of a unique animal has been captured by motion-sensor cameras placed on a remote, windswept island in Bass Strait. Two grainy stills show what could be an undescribed subspecies of echidna, ...

Meg Fergusson is a multimedia journalist who has been covering Tasmania since 2019. She spent several years with The Advocate newspaper digging in to a range of issues from crime, health, the ...

The largest-ever three-dimensional map of the cosmos, plotting out some 15 million celestial objects, could help reveal the ultimate fate of the universe. Astrophysicists know that the universe is ...

The DESI experiment shocked cosmologists with a hint that dark energy varies over time. Now, with more data, the conclusions hold up.

Bedmap3 is the most fine-grain map to date of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice. Scientists created it using more than ...