Astronomy News

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured an image of two clusters full of massive stars that may be in the early stages of merging. This is a Hubble...

A team of European astrophysicists led by Dr Vardan Adibekyan of the Centro de Astrofísica da Universidade do Porto, Portugal, has found that metals like...

A large international team of over 80 astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, the South Pole Telescope, and eight other world-class observatories,...

Astronomers at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile have captured a new and very detailed image of Barnard 59, part of a dark cloud of interstellar dust...

Astronomers have constructed the largest-ever 3D map of massive galaxies and distant black holes, which will help better explain the mysterious ‘dark...

A study led by the University of Zürich and the ETH Zürich has revealed the presence of large amounts of invisible ‘dark matter’ near the Solar System. The...

An international team of astronomers has used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to make the first detection of X-rays from the remains of a supernova...

A team of astronomers at the University of Bonn in Germany has suggested that the four ultramassive stars, discovered two years ago and located in the...

Astronomers led by Dr Stella Kafka of the Carnegie Institution for Science have reported the discovery of a star system, prior to explosion, which will...

An international team of astronomers operating ESO’s Very Large Telescope has released a new image of the spiral galaxy NGC 1187. This image shows the...

A multinational team of researchers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope has discovered that almost three quarters of high-mass stars have close companions,...

Astronomers have detected the first exoplanetary system with regularly aligned orbits similar to those in our Solar System. In this artist interpretation,...

An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has detected a very special gamma-ray pulsar. A gamma-ray pulsar...

An international team of astrophysicists has developed a new model that shows how an elusive type of black hole can be formed in the gas surrounding their...

Japanese astronomers using two radio telescopes have produced a map of carbon monoxide distribution in the central region of our Galaxy. While mapping...

Astronomers using the Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered what they believe is a planet two-thirds the size of Earth. This artist’s concept shows...

An international team of astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope has discovered the Universe’s oldest spiral galaxy yet seen, an object that...

Astronomers using three telescopes – APEX in Chile, SMA in Hawaii, and the Submillimeter Telescope in Arizona – have observed the heart of...

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...