Astronomy News

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have established that mature-looking galaxies existed much earlier than previously known, when the...

U.S. astronomer using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has discovered a massive cloud of hot gas likely caused by a collision between a dwarf galaxy...

An international team of astronomers has used observations of the newly discovered pulsar PSR J1745-2900 to measure the magnetic field emanating from a...

A team of scientists at the University of Copenhagen’s Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark, has reported the discovery of a six-image lensed quasar named...

A team of astronomers using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile has captured an image of two distinctive glowing...

Scientists have found that most of the Magellanic Stream was stripped from the Small Magellanic Cloud about 2 billion years ago, with a smaller portion...

Using optical data of a recently detected gamma ray burst afterglow, astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State...

Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii have captured a direct image of an exoplanet orbiting a Sun-like star. This composite image shows the...

Australian and U.S. astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the W.M. Keck Observatory’s 10-m telescope in Hawaii have found a new kind...

A team of astronomers from Taiwan and the UK has discovered two unusual subdwarf stars with extremely high concentrations of lead in their atmospheres. This...

A large international team of astronomers has used NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to learn more about so-called quenched galaxies – galaxies...

A new way of measuring the spin in supermassive black holes, reported in a paper in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (full paper in...

An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has observed six transits of an exoplanet called HD 189733b, the closest...

Very detailed new observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) of nearby starburst galaxy NGC 253 may help explain the strange...

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have for the first time directly imaged a snow line at another star. This is...

According to new research by Dr Edo Berger and his colleagues at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, all Earth’s gold likely came from...

ESO’s Very Large Telescope has made detailed observations of a hot gas cloud being ripped apart by the supermassive black hole at the center of our Galaxy. New...

Chandra X-ray observations of a remarkable planetary nebula called NGC 2392 have revealed superheated gas around the dense, hot core of the nebula. This...

An international team of scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope’s Imaging Spectrograph has for the first time determined the true color of an extrasolar...