Explanation: What does this image look like to you? Many see a giraffe facing right, with neck stretched high and long legs mid-stride (but some may see a squirrel instead). The featured image shows LDN 1295, also called the Giraffe Nebula, in the constellation of the mythical queen of Aethiopia (Cassiopeia). It is an object in the Lynds…
Labor Premier delivers blunt message to Aussies demanding lower migration – claiming skilled migrants each bring $415k to the economy
South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas issued a brutal warning to Aussies demanding lower migration, arguing lower levels would make problems ‘worse’. In a speech at the Sydney Institute on Wednesday night, Malinauskas argued that skilled migrants offered a significant economic benefit compared with Australians. ‘A primary skilled migrant delivers a net…
We’re about to exceed 1.5-degree global warming limit, according to the UN
Global warming will soon cross a critical threshold, surpassing a dangerous limit set years ago, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has found. But experts say it’s still possible to cool things back down, emphasizing that the stakes are too high to stop trying. In 2015, 196 nations and territories…
WA must rein in gas industry’s daylight robbery
PERTH, Thursday 10 September 2026 — In response to the announcement of draft federal domestic gas reservation legislation, the following comments can be attributed to WA Campaign Lead at Greenpeace Australia Pacific, Geoff Bice: “The gas industry has been getting away with daylight robbery in WA for years, and if…
Swaggering Trump swears as he orders Republicans to make midterms a referendum on HIM … and delivers brutal backhanded blessing to struggling Senate candidate
President Trump urged Republicans to treat November’s midterms as a referendum on himself, telling the party’s first ever midterm convention on Wednesday: ‘I’m asking you to pretend I’m on the ballot.’ The plea, delivered on the opening night of the two-day Dallas gathering, demonstrated how the GOP’s fate remains tethered…
NASA’s newly launched Roman Space Telescope will ‘directly’ image exoplanets. But what does that mean?
A brand new observatory began its tenure on Aug. 30 — it’s called the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, and it’s equipped with a high-tech tool that can directly photograph planets beyond our solar system. The tool is called a coronagraph; in simple terms, a coronagraph is a device that…
Astronomers discover two stars that joined together to form a binary system just 60 years ago
Using the ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) radio telescope, astronomers have watched as two stars come together to form a massive stellar binary. The observations revealed that these stars didn’t form from the same collapsing cloud of gas and dust, as most binary stars are assumed to form, but instead…
Horror as young man is struck down and killed by a rubbish truck in Sydney
By KYLIE STEVENS, SENIOR BREAKING NEWS REPORTER, AUSTRALIA Published: 23:43 BST, 9 September 2026 | Updated: 23:55 BST, 9 September 2026 A young man has died after being struck by a garbage truck in Sydney’s west. Emergency services were called to a restaurant carpark on Luxford Road in Mount Druitt…
Pauline Hanson calls Andrew Hastie a ‘w***er’ as bitter war erupts after he accused her of branding him a ‘traitor’
By TESS IKONOMOU Published: 23:02 BST, 9 September 2026 | Updated: 23:11 BST, 9 September 2026 Pauline Hanson denies she labelled Liberal MP and former special forces soldier Andrew Hastie a ‘traitor’, while refusing to take down a cartoon at the centre of their dispute. Hastie claimed in an email…
This ‘impossible’ black hole merger may be explained by a warp in spacetime
A “forbidden” merger between two massive black holes may not have been quite as impossible as previously thought. That’s according to new research that suggests the black holes involved were smaller than expected. On Nov. 23, 2023, the gravitational wave detector LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) detected tiny ripples in…