Astronomy News

NASA’s Swift spacecraft has detected a gamma-ray burst, called GRB 111209A, which is one of the longest events of this kind ever observed. The duration...

An international team of astrophysicists has discovered the ruins of a planetary system consisting of the cores of two former giant planets orbiting around...

A U.S. team of researchers has discovered the evidence of complex hydrocarbon and/or nitrile molecules lying on the Pluto’s surface. Artist’s impression...

NASA’s Kepler mission has detected two extrasolar Earth-sized planets, reported in a press release from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. The...

European astronomers have obtained the best images ever of an unusual double star, where the companion star is a vampire, according to a press release...

The Kepler mission has discovered the first super-Earth in the habitable zone of a distant Sun-like star, according to NASA. The newly found planet Kepler-22b...

A team of astronomers has discovered 18 Jupiter-like planets in orbit around massive stars, stated in a press release from the California Institute of...

Researchers from Tel Aviv University predict lightning sprites in the atmospheres of Jupiter, Saturn and Venus. Only a few decades ago, scientists discovered...

Using the LABOCA camera on the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope on the plateau of Chajnantor in the Chilean Andes, a team of astronomers...

Space scientists investigating the composition of very distant galaxies have discovered two galaxies in the young Universe that have more heavy chemical...

A new image from ESO’s telescope reveals the Lambda Centauri Nebula, a cloud of glowing hydrogen and newborn stars in the constellation of Centaurus....

NASA’s Kepler mission detected Kepler-16b, the closest astronomers have come to discovering Luke Skywalker’s home world of Tatooine, according...

The HARPS team led by Michel Mayor from University of Geneva, Switzerland, announced the discovery of more than 50 new exoplanets orbiting nearby stars,...

ESO’s New Technology Telescope has captured an image of the open cluster NGC 2100. This brilliant star cluster is around 15 million years old, and located...

Astronomers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have discovered that the dwarf planet 2007 OR10 — nicknamed Snow White — is an icy...

Scientists using data from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have discovered the coldest class of star-like bodies, with temperatures...

Our solar system, where planets have a range of sizes and move in near-circular paths, may be rather unusual, according to a German-British team led by...

A giant cosmic necklace glows brightly in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. The object, aptly named the Necklace Nebula, is a recently discovered...

A team of astronomers, using the Spitzer Space Telescope, has reported the first extragalactic detection of the C70 fullerene molecule, and the possible...