Astronomy News

An international team of astronomers using three different telescopes – NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA’s XMM-Newton in space,...

Scientists have for the first time determined the mass of a non-transiting extra-solar planet. Artist's impression of Tau Boötis b looking at its...

An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a puzzling arc of light behind an extremely massive cluster...

An international team of astronomers has discovered a bigger version of Earth locked in an orbital tug-of-war with a much larger, Neptune-sized planet...

ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has taken the most detailed image so far of the stellar nursery called NGC 6357. ESO's VLT has taken the most detailed...

New data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have challenged prevailing ideas about how supermassive black holes grow in the centers of galaxies. NGC...

A team of researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology using Kepler Telescope data from two stars in our galaxy has created sounds for a national recording...

The Andromeda galaxy, also known as M31, and the Triangulum galaxy, or M33, may have brushed closely billions of years ago, new observations indicate. Artist’s...

Using NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), an international team of scientists has discovered about 200 brown dwarfs, including a few...

Astronomers using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered what they believe is the faint, lumpy glow given off by the very first objects in...

An international team of astrophysicists has discovered that black holes can change between two different modes, like changing the gears of an engine. Artist’s...

Analyzing data from several telescopes, including NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, an international team of astronomers has discovered a massive...

Using data from ESA’s XMM-Newton satellite, astronomers have detected a long-sought X-ray echo that promises a new way to probe supermassive black holes...

Astronomers, using data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, have predicted with certainty the titanic collision of our Milky Way galaxy with the...

Astronomers using Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) have captured a new image of the centre of the distinctive galaxy Centaurus A. This...

Astronomer Dr Robert Braun of the CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science in Australia has discovered that today’s Universe contains more atomic hydrogen...

Using NASA’s Fermi Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered two ghostly gamma-ray jets, which they believe are a sign of earlier jet activity...

A team of astronomers has detected a possible planet, some 1,500 light years away, that appears to be evaporating under the blistering heat of its parent...

A team of astronomers at the Gemini Observatory in Hawaii has taken a stunning image of the planetary nebula Sharpless 2-71. The complex planetary nebula...