Astronomy News

A new theoretical study of Earth-like exoplanets orbiting white dwarf stars, accepted for publication in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical...

An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has made the first observations of a planet outside our Solar System that’s...

A new infrared image from ESO’s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) at the Paranal Observatory in Chile reveals a landscape of...

An international team of astronomers suggests a supernova remnant, called W49B, contains the youngest black hole formed in our Milky Way Galaxy. This image...

An international group of astronomers using NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes has discovered a mysterious protostar that behaves like a...

Dr David Charbonneaua and Dr Courtney Dressing, astronomers with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, suggest that about 6 percent of red dwarf...

An international team of astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular new view of nearby spiral galaxy Messier 106...

Astronomers using ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory have captured two new views of the Andromeda Galaxy. This new image from the Herschel Space Observatory...

An international team of astronomers using ESA’s XMM-Newton Space Observatory has identified a pulsar that is able to dramatically change the way...

An international team of astronomers using the Subaru Telescope has detected a stellar companion and a Jupiter-sized exoplanet orbiting the star GSC 03547-01402...

A new far-infrared view of Betelgeuse – the nearest red supergiant star to our planet – obtained with ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory reveals...

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

A study led by British planetary scientists has provided evidence that auroras occur on a number of very low mass stars and brown dwarfs, collectively...

According to a new study conducted by German astronomers Dr Valeri Hambaryan and Dr Ralph Neuhauser, an intense blast of high-energy radiation that struck...

Astronomers using the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array have captured a new view of a 20,000-year-old supernova remnant that resembles an endangered species...

Australian astronomers have discovered how supermassive black holes grow – and it’s not what was expected. Researchers have believed that...

An international team of astronomers led by Dr Alyssa Goodman of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has identified a bone-like filament in...

Scientists at Case Western Reserve University have discovered a possible dwarf protogalaxy, and another dwarf galaxy, in the constellation Ursa Major. Sloan...

Astronomers using NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer have spotted what they say is the biggest spiral galaxy ever seen. This image shows the giant...