Astronomy News

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...

An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered several galaxies containing quasars, which act as gravitational...

An international team of astronomers has found that extraordinary large loops of matter around the galaxy NGC 5907 are the relic of a gigantic collision...

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have identified a new class of planet, a waterworld enshrouded by a thick, steamy atmosphere. An...

A team of astronomers using the Hubble telescope has studied a mid-sized black hole in the spectacular edge-on galaxy ESO 243-49 and found that it is surrounded...