A team of astronomers, led by the Australian National University, has discovered the oldest known star in the universe,…

A peculiar example of a celestial body, known as a brown dwarf, with unusually red skies has been discovered by a team o…

Our solar system seems like a neat and orderly place, with small, rocky worlds near the Sun and big, gaseous worlds fart…

Research on first data release from Gaia-ESO project suggests the Milky Way formed by expanding out from the centre, and…

Galaxies can be remarkably dusty places, and supernovas are thought to be a primary source of that dust, especially in t…

An exceptionally close exploding star, discovered on Jan. 21, is the focus of observatories on Earth and in orbit, inclu…

The distance to a set of 1.2 million galaxies that are more than 6 billion light years away from Earth has been measured…

An international team of astronomers has discovered the first Earth-mass planet that transits, or crosses in front of, i…

A newly discovered system of two white dwarf stars and a superdense pulsar–all packed within a space smaller than the Ea…

A team of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists are using mini-satellites that work as space cops to help co…

“Super-Earths” likely to have both oceans and continents

Massive terrestrial planets, called “super-Earths,” are known to be common in our galaxy, the Milky Way. Now a Northwest…

University of Leicester academic Dr Graeme Hansford to develop inventive new device in collaboration with Bruker Elemental

The analyser will allow rapid mineral identification and quantification in the field through a combination of X-ray diff…

Scottish scientists will be at the heart of a completely new type of space mission that will detect the ripples in space…

University of Michigan astronomers could be the first to witness a rare collision expected to happen at the center of th…

Dwarf galaxies may be small, but astronomers now know that they can hold massive black holes. Yale astronomer Marla Geha…

Combining the power of two major NASA space telescopes, astronomers have found four young, exceptionally bright galaxies…

After nearly a decade of development, construction and testing, the world’s most advanced instrument for directly imagin…

A new study of light from quasars has provided astronomers with illuminating insights into the swirling clouds of gas th…

Astronomers at Swinburne University of Technology and their international collaborators have found evidence that galaxie…

Study by UCSB scientist finds they likely originate from the creation of magnetars

Astronomers affiliated with the Supernova Legacy Survey (SNLS) have discovered two of the brightest and most distant sup…