Mar 3, 2015 by News Staff

An international team of scientists, headed by Dr Darach Watson of the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, has used the X-ray instrument on ESO’s Very...

Feb 14, 2015 by News Staff

In a new paper published in the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity, the team responsible for the visual effects at the center of Christopher Nolan’s...

Feb 11, 2015 by News Staff

An unusual galaxy cluster called SDSS J1038+4849 appears to smile at us in a newly-released image from Hubble’s Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2). This...

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 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...

Jul 4, 2014 by News Staff

Using gravitational microlensing, a team of astronomers led by Prof Andrew Gould from Ohio State University has detected a cold terrestrial exoplanet orbiting...

Apr 25, 2014 by News Staff

PS1-10afx, an unusually bright supernova that was discovered in 2010 using the Panoramic Survey Telescope & Rapid Response System, is so luminous because...

Mar 6, 2014 by News Staff

A team of astrophysicists led by Dr Rubens Reis from the University of Michigan has directly measured the spin of a supermassive black hole in a quasar...

Oct 21, 2013 by News Staff

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have discovered what they say is the most distant gravitational lens yet. This image shows the quadruple...