UMD and NASA astronomers track an intermediate-mass black hole from syncopated flares of light

The universe has so many black holes that it's impossible to count them all. There may be 100 million of these intriguin…

Their results, including the possibility that liquid water may be reaching all the way to the surface, are presented in…

Scientists hunting for life beyond Earth have discovered more than 1,800 planets outside our solar system, or exoplanets…

Two new planets orbiting a very old star in our nearby galaxy, known as Kapteyn’s star, are reported in a new study by a…

With a key funding approval, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, an international astronomy project of which the Univer…

For years, scientists have tried to explain the intense luminosity of quasars in the early universe. Quasars’ light is p…

The three planets, HD 189733b, HD 209458b, and WASP-12b, are between 60 and 900 light-years away. These giant gaseous wo…

The super-Earth planet, GJ 832 c, takes 16 days to orbit its red-dwarf star, GJ 832, and has a mass at least five times…

Light from tiny galaxies over 13 billion years ago played a larger role than previously thought in creating the conditio…

Earth and Mercury are both rocky planets with iron cores, but Mercury's interior differs from Earth's in a way that expl…

Astronomers at the University of British Columbia have collaborated with international researchers to calculate the prec…

An international team of astronomers, has used the Hubble Space Telescope to map the mass within a galaxy cluster, origi…

The Stuttgart instrument delivers first scientific data

On its first scientific mission the far-infrared spectrometer FIFI-LS developed by a team led by the University of Stutt…

In findings that help astrophysicists understand our corner of the galaxy, an international research team has shown that…

PhD student Tom Hands from the University of Leicester produces video to demonstrate vast range of time-scales on which exoplanets orbit host stars

PhD student Tom Hands from the University of Leicester produces video to demonstrate vast range of time-scales on which…

Speeding at 1 Million mph, It Probes Black Hole and Dark Matter

A University of Utah-led team discovered a hypervelocity star that is the closest, second-brightest and among the larges…

The European Southern Observatory has announced a world-first measuring a day on exoplanet Beta Pictoris b to be eight h…

Brief pulse detected by Arecibo telescope appears to come from far beyond our galaxy

The discovery of a split-second burst of radio waves by scientists using the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico prov…

Study of Gamma-Ray Bursts afterglow surprises scientists

Research from an international team of scientists led by the University of Leicester has discovered for the first time t…

Yale University astronomers, using a new type of telescope made by stitching together telephoto lenses, recently discove…