Astronomy News

Australian astronomers have discovered how supermassive black holes grow – and it’s not what was expected. Researchers have believed that...

An international team of astronomers led by Dr Alyssa Goodman of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has identified a bone-like filament in...

Scientists at Case Western Reserve University have discovered a possible dwarf protogalaxy, and another dwarf galaxy, in the constellation Ursa Major. Sloan...

Astronomers using NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer have spotted what they say is the biggest spiral galaxy ever seen. This image shows the giant...

A multinational team of astronomers led by the University of Central Lancashire has detected a large group of quasars that may be the largest known structure...

An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered what may be the most distant Type Ia supernova ever found. Supernova...

Astronomers from the University of California in Berkeley and the Clarion University in Pennsylvania using 2.1-m telescope of the McDonald Observatory...

Amateur astronomers from Planethunters.org have discovered a Jupiter-sized planet and 42 new planet candidates, including 14 objects in the habitable zones...

According to a team of astronomers led by Dr Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo of Stanford University, so-called ‘ultramassive black holes’ may be more abundant...

The Advanced Camera for Surveys aboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a spectacular view of one of the flattest galaxies known –...

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have captured a striking new image of the planetary nebula NGC 5189. This is the planetary nebula NGC...

Astronomers led by Dr Mikko Tuomi of the University of Hertfordshire have discovered that the nearby star Tau Ceti may host five exoplanets – with...

Scientists at the University of Chicago’s Department of the Geophysical Sciences and Enrico Fermi Institute have found the radioactive isotope iron-60...

According to an international team of astronomers, bright X-ray flares in nearby galaxies, once assumed to indicate the presence of black holes, can in...

With the combined power of Earth-orbiting X-ray telescopes, including NASA’s Swift and ESA’s XMM-Newton, an international team of astronomers has...

According to an international group of astronomers led by Dr Peter Tuthill of the Sydney Institute for Astronomy, Vega – the brightest star in the...

An international team of astronomers using the Wide Field Camera 3 and the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 aboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has...

An international group of astronomers using the Submillimeter Array and the Combined Array for Millimeter-Wave Astronomy has found evidence of what might...

A team of astronomers, led by Dr Mischa Schirmer of the Gemini Observatory, using observations from ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), the Gemini South...