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…

These cosmic chirps last for only a thousandth of a second. The characteristics of the radio pulses suggested that they…

Gaia will spend the next five years examining one billion stars. The space probe will measure the distance between these…

New research published in the journal Nature resolves decades of scientific controversy over the origin of the extremely…

Astronomers from University of Leicester provide new insights into cosmic phenomena

An international team led from the University of Leicester has published a major list of celestial X-ray sources in the…

The discovery of a giant planet orbiting its star at 650 times the average Earth-Sun distance has astronomers puzzled over how such a strange system came to be.

An international team of astronomers, led by a University of Arizona graduate student, has discovered the most distantly…

IceCube particle detector at the South Pole discovers 28 high-energy neutrinos / Publication in Science

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole was the first to discover ultrahigh-energy neutrinos which most likel…

Method will help scientists determine the mass of exoplanets that are not measurable in any other way.

Method will help scientists determine the mass of exoplanets that are not measurable in any other way