Astronomy News

A multinational team of astronomers led by University of Texas researchers has spotted the first visible-light evidence for gravitational waves in a binary...

An international team of astrophysicists and astronomers has developed a new method for detecting galaxies of stars that formed during the first 180 million...

Astronomers at ESO’s La Silla Observatory, Chile, have released a new image of the globular star cluster Messier 4. This image shows the spectacular...

Astronomers at the Keio University, Japan, have discovered a helical molecular cloud near the center of the Milky Way Galaxy some 30,000 light-years away. Artist’s...

European astronomers using ESO’s HARPS planet finder have discovered a new super-Earth in the habitable zone around the red dwarf star Gliese 163. Artist’s...

The Hubble team has released a new image of NGC 5806, a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo. The image shows the barred spiral galaxy NGC 5806...

An international team of researchers has discovered an ultra-luminous supernova in a distant galaxy some 9.5 billion light-years away and used it as a...

Astronomers have used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to produce a new X-ray image of NGC 1929, a star cluster embedded in the N44 nebula, which...

Astronomers using NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer have discovered millions of supermassive black hole candidates across the Universe and...

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array have detected molecules of glycolaldehyde – a simple form of sugar – in...

An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has discovered the first transiting circumbinary multi-planet system. Artist’s...

An international group of astronomers has announced the discovery of two groups of galaxies that are just like ours. Image shows one of the two ‘exact...

Astronomers at the University of California have found outflowing galactic winds with velocities up to 2,500 km per second that they detected in 29 massive...

An international team of astronomers using the Hobby-Eberly Telescope has found evidence of an extrasolar planet’s destruction by aging parent star. An...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured an image of two clusters full of massive stars that may be in the early stages of merging. This is a Hubble...

A team of European astrophysicists led by Dr Vardan Adibekyan of the Centro de Astrofísica da Universidade do Porto, Portugal, has found that metals like...

A large international team of over 80 astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, the South Pole Telescope, and eight other world-class observatories,...

Astronomers at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile have captured a new and very detailed image of Barnard 59, part of a dark cloud of interstellar dust...

Astronomers have constructed the largest-ever 3D map of massive galaxies and distant black holes, which will help better explain the mysterious ‘dark...