Astronomy News

Our Milky Way Galaxy and the Andromeda galaxy had a close encounter around 10 billion years ago, according to European astronomers led by Dr Hongsheng...

According to a new study reported in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, there may be as many as 60 billion planets in the so-called habitable zone around...

An international group of astronomers reporting in the journal Nature has discovered two extrasolar planets circling Sun-like stars in the open star cluster...

An international team of researchers has used new observations of Gliese 667C to find evidence of up to seven planets circling the star, including three...

Astronomers using the Wide Field Camera 3 aboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have captured a striking new image of two interacting galaxies collectively...

An international group of astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has reported the detection of 26 black hole candidates in Messier 31,...

A new study published in the Astrophysical Journal (arXiv.org version) provides evidence that an extrasolar planet may be forming quite far from a small...

Multi-band observations of NGC 3766, an open star cluster located about 5,500 light-years away in the constellation Centaurus, have yielded the discovery...

According to the findings of a study published online in the Astrophysical Journal, a dwarf galaxy named Segue 2 is the least massive galaxy in the known...

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have captured an image of a so-called ‘dust trap’ – a region where...

Doctoral student Karen Collins from the University of Louisville and her colleagues using the Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT) have discovered...

Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have captured an image of a faint object circling the young, dusty, early-type star HD 95086. With a mass...

An international team of astronomers using X-ray data from NASA’s Swift, RXTE, Chandra and ESA’s XMM-Newton Space Observatories has discovered...

An international team of astronomers has precisely located one of the most-observed variable-star systems in the sky – a double-star system called...

An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured the most detailed image to date of the famous Ring Nebula, also...

According to an international team of astronomers working with ESA’s Herschel Space Telescope, two gas-rich, actively star-forming galaxies that collided...

Astronomers using ESO’s Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) in Chile has captured a stunning new image of cosmic clouds in the constellation of Orion. This...

An international team of scientists from Israel and the United States has reported the first-ever discovery of an extrasolar planet using a novel method...

An international team of astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has discovered and studied a strange stellar pair about 7,000 light-years...