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…

Something is amiss in the universe. There appears to be an enormous deficit of ultraviolet light in the cosmic budget. O…

Researchers from University of Warwick and Monash University have provided new evidence that may prove the existence of…

Satellite dwarf galaxies at the edges of the Milky Way and neighbouring Andromeda galaxies don’t fit the accepted model…

Research provides measurements for scientists searching for water in solar system

New research at the Georgia Institute of Technology indicates that ultraviolet photons emitted by the sun likely cause H…

What looked at first like a sort of upside-down planet has instead revealed a new method for studying binary star system…

The bright core of a spiral galaxy has unexpectedly dimmed, according to a new study by an international team of astronomers.

Published in Science today, the study provides the first direct evidence for the long-predicted shielding process that i…

The discovery of three closely orbiting supermassive black holes in a galaxy more than four billion light years away cou…