Astronomy News

European astrophysicists using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered four white dwarfs surrounded by dust from shattered planetary bodies which once...

A team of astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has discovered a new ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX) produced by a black hole in a...

NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a new image of the Egg Nebula, a bipolar preplanetary nebula located about 3,000 light years away. The Egg Nebula...

A team of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, a high-energy neutrino detector at the geographical South Pole in Antarctica, has reported results of a search...

Astronomers have for the first time captured images of auroras above the giant planet Uranus. Uranus auroras, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope in...

An international team of astronomers has found compelling evidence for two low-mass planets orbiting the nearby star Fomalhaut, just 25 light years from...

An international group of scientists led by Dr. Barnaby Norris from the University of Sydney in Australia using new techniques which allowed them to look...

NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the spiral galaxy NGC 4980, located around 80 million light years away in the constellation of Hydra. Spiral...

Scientists from the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC, using images from NASA’s two Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO-A and STEREO-B)...

Scientists using observations from two ESA’s spacecrafts have created a multi-wavelength view of cataclysmic events taking place within the giant galaxy...

A team of scientists using long observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has suggested a massive star that became the Cassiopeia A supernova...

A team of scientists from the University of Utah and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory has found a new explanation for the growth of supermassive...

An international team of astronomers has for the first time produced an image that shows more than one billion stars in the Milky Way. Detail of a star-forming...

An international team of astronomers working with the HARPS spectrograph on the 3.6-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile has found...

An international team of astronomers has discovered an ancient planetary system that is likely to be a survivor from one of the earliest cosmic eras. An...

A team of researchers has confirmed the possibility of existence of hypervelocity planets, which zoom through space at a few percent of the speed of light...

ESO’s VISTA telescope has created the widest deep view of the sky ever made using infrared light. A section of the widest deep view of the sky ever...

An international team of astronomers has discovered a rare square galaxy with a striking resemblance to an emerald cut diamond within a group of 250 galaxies...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has taken the most detailed image so far of Messier 9, a globular star cluster located close to the centre of the galaxy. Hubble...