Astronomy News

A team of scientists from the University of Utah and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory has found a new explanation for the growth of supermassive...

An international team of astronomers has for the first time produced an image that shows more than one billion stars in the Milky Way. Detail of a star-forming...

An international team of astronomers working with the HARPS spectrograph on the 3.6-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile has found...

An international team of astronomers has discovered an ancient planetary system that is likely to be a survivor from one of the earliest cosmic eras. An...

A team of researchers has confirmed the possibility of existence of hypervelocity planets, which zoom through space at a few percent of the speed of light...

ESO’s VISTA telescope has created the widest deep view of the sky ever made using infrared light. A section of the widest deep view of the sky ever...

An international team of astronomers has discovered a rare square galaxy with a striking resemblance to an emerald cut diamond within a group of 250 galaxies...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has taken the most detailed image so far of Messier 9, a globular star cluster located close to the centre of the galaxy. Hubble...

An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered several galaxies containing quasars, which act as gravitational...

An international team of astronomers has found that extraordinary large loops of matter around the galaxy NGC 5907 are the relic of a gigantic collision...

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have identified a new class of planet, a waterworld enshrouded by a thick, steamy atmosphere. An...

A team of astronomers using the Hubble telescope has studied a mid-sized black hole in the spectacular edge-on galaxy ESO 243-49 and found that it is surrounded...

Using Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope in Chile, an international team of astronomers has taken one of the finest images of a star formation...

The ESA-NASA Planck spacecraft has returned new remarkable images showing previously undiscovered islands of star formation and a mysterious haze of microwave...

A team of astronomers has used the HAWK-I camera on ESO’s Very Large Telescope to take the most detailed panorama of the Carina Nebula in infrared light. The...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has taken a close-up view of the brightest distant ‘magnified’ galaxy known to date. Galaxy cluster RCS2 032727-132623...

An international team of researchers, led by Dr. Paul Butler of the Carnegie Institution and Dr. Guillem Anglada-Escudé of the University of Gottingen,...

NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered 11 new planetary systems hosting 26 extrasolar planets. According to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, these...

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...