Dec 26, 2014 by News Staff

A team of astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a new image of the edge-on lenticular galaxy IC 335. This Hubble image shows the...

Dec 23, 2014 by News Staff

A new neighbor of our Milky Way Galaxy has been discovered with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) instrument on NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. This...

Dec 18, 2014 by News Staff

By observing the dust and gas at the center of NGC 1266, a team of astronomers led by Dr Katherine Alatalo of the California Institute of Technology in...

Dec 14, 2014 by News Staff

A spectacular cosmic collision between the spiral galaxies NGC 2207 and IC 2163 has been caught in a composite image generated by NASA’s Chandra X-ray...

Dec 12, 2014 by News Staff

European scientists have detected a mysterious photon emission in X-ray spectra of the Andromeda galaxy, the Draco dwarf galaxy and some other galaxies...

Dec 8, 2014 by News Staff

NASA has released a dazzling image from the Hubble Space Telescope, showing a nearby spiral galaxy called NGC 4102. Color composite image of the starburst...

Dec 1, 2014 by News Staff

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have captured a new image of a tiny galaxy known as UGC 1281. This image shows the dwarf galaxy UGC 1281....

Nov 27, 2014 by News Staff

A team of astronomers led by Dr Sebastian Hoenig from the University of Copenhagen and the University of Southampton has developed a new method for determining...

Nov 26, 2014 by News Staff

Using two supercomputers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Swiss National Supercomputing Center, a group of researchers headed by Dr Simon Portegies...

Nov 26, 2014 by News Staff

New Hubble Space Telescope observations of globular star clusters in a tiny galaxy called the Fornax dwarf spheroidal galaxy (Fornax dSph) show these objects...

Nov 25, 2014 by News Staff

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have photographed a distant barred spiral galaxy called NGC 986. This image shows the barred spiral galaxy...

Nov 21, 2014 by News Staff

A multinational group of astronomers led by Dr Michael Koss of ETH Zurich has discovered an exotic object in a galaxy some 90 million light-years away. The...

Oct 31, 2014 by News Staff

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to probe a galactic supercluster known as Abell 2744 have found forensic evidence of galaxies that were...

Oct 11, 2014 by News Staff

In an effort to better understand how the Universe evolved as the first stars were formed, U.S. astronomers led by Dr Sanchayeeta Borthakur of Johns Hopkins...

Oct 9, 2014 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers, led Dr Matteo Bachetti of the University of Toulouse in France, has detected what they say is the most powerful pulsar...

Sep 20, 2014 by News Staff

Astronomers conducting a broad survey of galaxies called Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) have found that the Universe’s most massive galaxies gain weight...

Aug 27, 2014 by News Staff

A multinational team of astronomers, led by Dr Hugo Messias of the Universidad de Concepción in Chile and the Universidade de Lisboa in Portugal, has...

Aug 16, 2014 by News Staff

A group of astronomers from Europe, Australia and the United States led by Dr Janez Kos of the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia has produced pseudo-3D...

Aug 8, 2014 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers using the William E. Gordon Telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico has discovered a 2.6-million-light-year-long...

Aug 1, 2014 by News Staff

A team of astronomers using the Advanced Camera for Surveys and the Wide Field Camera onboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered the most distant...