Online volunteers have helped ANU astronomers find a star that exploded 970 million years ago, predating the dinosaurs' time on Earth.

Co-lead researcher Dr Brad Tucker said his team was able to confirm a previously unknown object was a real exploding star in just a day, thanks to the efficiency and dedication of volunteer supernovae hunters - more than 700 of them.

Canberra has been officially Simpson-ised in a clever two-minute animation developed by ANU students for this year's ANU Med Revue.

The Australian National University welcomes the ACT Government's announcement of a new research partnership involving ANU and the private sector to help make autonomous vehicle technology a commercial reality.

A new study from the Australian National University has found a third of Australian children believe their dads work too much.

One of the University's top academics believes a successful referendum on recognising Indigenous people in the Australian Constitution will be reliant on posing an uncomplicated question to voters.

A mystery of galactic proportions has finally been solved by a crack team of international physicists, led by those at The Australian National University.

Since the early 1970s, astronomers have tried to pinpoint the source of vast deposits of antimatter within the Milky Way galaxy.

Science communicators from eight African countries created a pop-up interactive science exhibition on Monday 22 May as part of a program at the ANU National Centre for Public Awareness of Science (CPAS).

Budding art curator Georgia Mokak says the inspiration behind her design to commemorate Reconciliation Week at ANU was blending the topography of the land on which the campus sits with the straight lines of the University's buildings.

The Hon Linda Burney MP has used a speech at ANU reflecting on 50 years since the 1967 Referendum to support the call for constitutional reform to recognise Indigenous Australians.