Astronomy News

New, deep observations of the massive galaxy cluster Abell 1689 have revealed that it hosts the largest population of globular clusters ever found. This...

Astronomers led by Prof Joss Bland-Hawthorn from the University of Sydney have found evidence that the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy,...

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, Chandra X-ray Observatory and ground-based optical telescopes have discovered what they say is the...

Astronomers have used ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope to produce a stunning new image of a large stellar nursery called the Prawn Nebula. This image shows...

Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra space observatory have discovered enormous arms of X-ray emitting plasma in the Coma cluster of galaxies. This composite...

According to a team of astronomers from Australia and Europe reporting in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, IRAS 15445-5449 – an...

Two international teams of astronomers have used ESO’s VISTA telescope and MPG/ESO 2.2-m telescope, both in Chile, to produce the best 3D map yet of...

Astronomers using data from NASA’s WISE mission and the Spitzer Space Telescope have found that ultra-cool Y-class brown dwarfs – the coldest...

Astronomers from Japan using NAOJ’s Subaru Telescope have found that the extrasolar planet Gliese 1214b has a water-rich atmosphere. This artist’s...

Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and ESO’s New Technology Telescope, two astronomers from University of Manchester, UK, have studied 130...

An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has taken a major step in understanding why gas near the Milky Way’s...

Astronomers from Canada and France have announced the discovery of the first Trojan asteroid known to share its orbit with Uranus. This image shows the...

Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have identified the oldest solar twin known to date. This image shows the Sun-like star HIP 102152. Credit:...

A team of astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has captured a beautiful close-up view of an object named Herbig-Haro...

An international team of astronomers reporting in the Astrophysical Journal (arXiv.org) has discovered an Earth-sized exoplanet called Kepler 78b that...

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

U.S. astronomer using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has discovered a massive cloud of hot gas likely caused by a collision between a dwarf galaxy...

An international team of astronomers has used observations of the newly discovered pulsar PSR J1745-2900 to measure the magnetic field emanating from a...

A team of scientists at the University of Copenhagen’s Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark, has reported the discovery of a six-image lensed quasar named...