Astronomy News

An international team of astronomers using data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has confirmed the presence of a massive planet around the nearby...

Astronomers using ESO’s 4.1-m Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) have catalogued more than 84 million stars in the central parts...

Astrophysicists using data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope have suggested that isolated stars kicked to the edges of space by violent galaxy...

An international team of astronomers used Wide Field Camera 3 aboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to look at the host galaxy of one of the most luminous...

An international group of astronomers has discovered surprising gaseous spiral arms in the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 5128, also known as Centaurus A. This...

Astronomers using the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph on the Fredrick C. Gillett Gemini North telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawai‘I, have photographed the...

An international team of astronomers using the CSIRO Australia Telescope Compact Array radio telescope in New South Wales has captured an image of a supersonic...

A team of astrophysicists using ESA’s International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (Integral) has reported the first direct detection of radioactive...

Astronomers have unveiled new high-resolution infrared images of Uranus, revealing in detail the bizarre weather of the seventh planet from the Sun. A...

An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has studied a filament of dark matter in three dimensions for the first time. This...

A team of citizen scientists and professional astronomers has discovered a circumbinary planet in a huge four-star system some 5,000 light years away. This...

European astronomers using HARPS instrument on the 3.6-m telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory, Chile, have discovered an exoplanet with about the...

New X-Ray observations made with ESA’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s Swift space telescopes have provided evidence for the interaction of fierce stellar winds...

A multinational team of astronomers led by Dr Joel Kastner of Rochester Institute of Technology has captured stunning views of four planetary nebulae:...

Astronomers have discovered an unexpected spiral structure in the gas around the red giant star R Sculptoris. Observations using ALMA have revealed an...

Yale researchers have discovered that a rocky super-Earth orbiting a nearby star is a diamond planet. This illustration shows the interior of 55 Cancri...

Astronomers using ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory have discovered huge amounts of water vapor in a cold pre-stellar core in the constellation of Taurus...

ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has captured a beautiful image of the Thor’s Helmet Nebula. The Thor’s Helmet Nebula, also known as NGC 2359, as...

Cambridge researchers have discovered a new population of enormous, rapidly growing supermassive black holes in the early Universe. Infrared color image...