Feb 10, 2014 by News Staff

A multinational team of astronomers has reported the discovery of Abell2744 Y1 – one of the most distant galaxies ever found. This image shows the...

Feb 10, 2014 by News Staff

Astronomers led by Dr Stefan Keller of the Australian National University say they have discovered the oldest star ever seen in the Universe. This image,...

Aug 16, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have established that mature-looking galaxies existed much earlier than previously known, when the...

Aug 7, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Using optical data of a recently detected gamma ray burst afterglow, astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State...

May 23, 2013 by Natali Anderson

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

Mar 14, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an array of 66 radio telescopes located in the dry and cloudless Atacama Desert...

Jan 23, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astronomers led by Dr Sebastien Muller of the Chalmers University of Technology has made the most precise measurement ever of...

Nov 21, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

A study by Dr Stephen Curran of the University of Sydney and Dr Matthew Whiting of the CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science has addressed the mystery of why...

Sep 24, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astronomers has found a possible way to map the spread and structure of the Universe, guided by the light of quasars. This artist’s...

Sep 19, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

New observations from the Herschel Space Observatory have revealed that prodigious star formation in galaxies of the early Universe were often accompanied...

Sep 6, 2012 by News Staff

An international team of astrophysicists and astronomers has developed a new method for detecting galaxies of stars that formed during the first 180 million...