Astronomy News

For the first time ever, astronomers from NASA and the University of Tübingen in Germany have detected rare noble gases krypton and xenon in the spectrum...

Astronomers using NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have detected a fifth and tiniest moon yet orbiting the icy dwarf planet Pluto. This image, taken by...

An international team of astrophysicists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has detected meteorological variations in the atmosphere of the exoplanet...

An international group of astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has studied some of the smallest and faintest galaxies in our cosmic neighborhood. Astronomers...

An international team of astronomers has announced a baffling discovery never seen before: an extraordinary amount of dust around a nearby star mysteriously...

Astronomers working with the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope on Hawaii have discovered four pairs of stars that orbit each other in less than 4 hours. This...

An international team of astronomers combining data from the Japan-led Suzaku satellite, the ESA’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory...

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have captured a new image of Herbig-Haro 110, a geyser of hot gas flowing from a newborn star. Hubble...

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...