Astronomy News

An international team of astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope has discovered a pair of stars orbiting each other at the center of the remarkable...

A multinational team of astronomers using data from ESO’s HARPS instrument has discovered a new exoplanet in the habitable zone around the nearby...

Yale astronomers have reported the discovery of a stream of stars believed to be the remnant of an ancient star cluster slowly being ingested by our Milky...

A colorful, close-up view of the globular star cluster NGC 6362 has been taken by astronomers using the MPG/ESO 2.2-m telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory...

Astronomers using the giant Keck telescope in Hawaii have detected two superluminous supernovae – stellar explosions 10 to 100 times brighter than...

An international team of scientists using the European Photon Imaging Camera aboard ESA’s X-ray space observatory XMM-Newton has snapped a stunning new...

Using sophisticated computer modeling programs, astrophysicists have shed light on the long-standing mystery of the binding force behind a cluster of unruly...

Astronomers using the Low-Frequency Array for Radio Astronomy (LOFAR) have captured a stunning image of a bubble of particles surrounding a supermassive...

By combining observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory with infrared data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and radio data from...

A multinational team of astronomers using the Advanced Camera for Surveys and the Wide Field Camera 3 aboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured...

An international team of astronomers using data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has confirmed the presence of a massive planet around the nearby...

Astronomers using ESO’s 4.1-m Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) have catalogued more than 84 million stars in the central parts...

Astrophysicists using data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope have suggested that isolated stars kicked to the edges of space by violent galaxy...

An international team of astronomers used Wide Field Camera 3 aboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to look at the host galaxy of one of the most luminous...

An international group of astronomers has discovered surprising gaseous spiral arms in the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 5128, also known as Centaurus A. This...

Astronomers using the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph on the Fredrick C. Gillett Gemini North telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawai‘I, have photographed the...

An international team of astronomers using the CSIRO Australia Telescope Compact Array radio telescope in New South Wales has captured an image of a supersonic...

A team of astrophysicists using ESA’s International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (Integral) has reported the first direct detection of radioactive...

Astronomers have unveiled new high-resolution infrared images of Uranus, revealing in detail the bizarre weather of the seventh planet from the Sun. A...