Astronomy News

New observations of the galaxy Messier 101 have yielded the discovery of an unusual black hole that can sustain a hugely voracious appetite while consuming...

An international team of astronomers used ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the Paranal Observatory in Chile to observe the emission nebula NGC...

New observations of the famous Tycho’s supernova remnant by the Suzaku X-ray astronomy satellite have revealed that a reverse shock wave racing inward...

A team of scientists using the Arecibo radio telescope measured the hydrogen content of 250 galaxies located in different environments to show that galaxies...

An unusual stellar explosion observed on April 27, 2013 by NASA’s Swift satellite is the brightest gamma-ray burst (GRB) ever recorded, says a multinational...

Astronomers used data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Very Large Array radio telescope to detect a jet from Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*),...

British astronomers reporting in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (arXiv.org) have found two of the oldest brown dwarfs in...

Using Hubble’s deep-sky surveys, NASA astronomers have studied the evolution of 400 Milky Way-like galaxies to show how our own Galaxy looked like...

An international team of researchers using ESA’s XMM-Newton Space Telescope has found the first evidence of heavy atoms in jets emitted by a stellar-mass...

Scientists using the 2.2-m telescope at La Silla Observatory, Chile, have captured a stunning new image of glowing gas clouds around the young open star...

An international team of scientists led by Dr Patrick Hall of York University in Toronto has discovered a new type of quasars. This is an artist’s impression...

A team of researchers reported the first-ever discovery of a black hole in a globular star cluster in our Milky Way Galaxy. This Chandra X-ray image of...

Astronomers used NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to obtain the best view yet of our closest stellar neighbor, Proxima Centauri. Proxima Centauri. Image...

Astronomers have reported the discovery of a magnetic field in the Smith Cloud, a gigantic streamer of hydrogen gas that will plunge into our Galaxy in...

A team of scientists from UK and Germany used a 42-ft telescope at the Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, England, to determine how the magnetic field...

According to astronomers reporting in the journal Nature, Kepler-78b is the first Earth-sized exoplanet found to have an Earth-like density. This image...

A multinational group of scientists used the Atacama Large Millimeter-submillimeter Array in Chile to observe the Boomerang Nebula – the coldest...

Astronomers led by Dr Steven Willner from Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have discovered what they believe is the most distant galaxy ever...

Astronomers used a new astronomical software system called the intermediate Palomar Transient Factory to discover a new Type Ib supernova and link it to...