Astronomy News

The Andromeda galaxy, also known as M31, and the Triangulum galaxy, or M33, may have brushed closely billions of years ago, new observations indicate. Artist’s...

Using NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), an international team of scientists has discovered about 200 brown dwarfs, including a few...

Astronomers using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered what they believe is the faint, lumpy glow given off by the very first objects in...

An international team of astrophysicists has discovered that black holes can change between two different modes, like changing the gears of an engine. Artist’s...

Analyzing data from several telescopes, including NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, an international team of astronomers has discovered a massive...

Using data from ESA’s XMM-Newton satellite, astronomers have detected a long-sought X-ray echo that promises a new way to probe supermassive black holes...

Astronomers, using data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, have predicted with certainty the titanic collision of our Milky Way galaxy with the...

Astronomers using Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) have captured a new image of the centre of the distinctive galaxy Centaurus A. This...

Astronomer Dr Robert Braun of the CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science in Australia has discovered that today’s Universe contains more atomic hydrogen...

Using NASA’s Fermi Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered two ghostly gamma-ray jets, which they believe are a sign of earlier jet activity...

A team of astronomers has detected a possible planet, some 1,500 light years away, that appears to be evaporating under the blistering heat of its parent...

A team of astronomers at the Gemini Observatory in Hawaii has taken a stunning image of the planetary nebula Sharpless 2-71. The complex planetary nebula...

By combining the light of three powerful infrared telescopes, an international team of astrophysicists has observed the active accretion phase of a supermassive...

A team of astronomers using ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory has discovered a giant, galaxy-packed filament ablaze with billions of new stars. Three...

Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have discovered the first X-ray evidence of a supernova shock wave breaking through a cocoon...

An international team of astrophysicists has discovered a new heating source in cosmological structure formation. This artist’s impression shows a supermassive...

Astronomers have discovered a brown dwarf that is more than 99 % hydrogen and helium. Artist’s impression shows BD+01 2920B in the foreground, on the...

An international group of scientists led by the University of Buckingham in UK has claimed that life-bearing planets may exist in vast numbers in the space...

An international team of astronomers using ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory has shown that the number of stars that form during the early lives of galaxies...