Astronomy News

A group of astronomers led by Dr Avishay Gal-Yam from Weizmann Institute of Science has identified a mysterious Wolf-Rayet star as the likely progenitor...

An international group of astronomers using the MPG/ESO 2.2-m telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile has captured a new image of NGC 3590. This...

Astronomers using Gemini Planet Imager have captured an amazingly clear and bright image of a gas giant orbiting Beta Pictoris. Gemini Planet Imager captured...

The Great Red Spot on Jupiter is shrinking, says a team of astronomers led by Dr Amy Simon of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. This...

A newly discovered extrasolar planet takes about 80,000 years to make a complete orbit around its star, GU Psc. This composite image shows the exoplanet...

Astronomers from the United States, Russia and Australia have discovered the first true solar sibling – HD 162826. HD 162826. Image credit: sky-map.org. HD...

Astronomers from the United States and China have discovered a hypervelocity star (HVS) that is the closest bright HVS and one of the three most massive...

Astronomers led Dr Mark Vogelsberger of MIT/Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have created the first realistic virtual Universe using a computer...

Astronomers using data from ESA’s Planck Space Telescope have created a map of the entire sky that charts the magnetic field shaping our Milky Way...

A team of astronomers led by Dr Nelson Caldwell from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has discovered a globular star cluster thrown out...

Beta Pictoris b, a very young gas giant that orbits the star Beta Pictoris just 63 light-years away in the southern constellation of Pictor, has been found...

An international team of astronomers using the Palomar Cosmic Web Imager has captured stunning images of the intergalactic medium – the diffuse gas...

U.S. astronomer using NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer and Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered WISE J085510.83-071442.5 (WISE 0855-0714...

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have discovered five planetary disks around young stars. This image shows a debris disk around HD...

PS1-10afx, an unusually bright supernova that was discovered in 2010 using the Panoramic Survey Telescope & Rapid Response System, is so luminous because...

Astronomers using ESA’s XMM-Newton X-ray observatory have discovered, for the first time, a pair of supermassive black holes in orbit around one...

The more massive the bulge of a galaxy, the redder the galaxy, says a team of astronomers reporting in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical...

A large team of astronomers has announced the discovery of an Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone of Kepler-186. This artistic concept...

Astronomers using the MPG/ESO 2.2-m telescope at the La Silla Observatory, Chile, have captured a new image of the little-known nebula Gum 41. This new...