The latest image released from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a beautiful view of a large galaxy being assembled from…
Quasars are some of the brightest objects in the Universe, and astronomers believe they're caused by the outpouring of radiation…
It takes a nice safe environment for planets to form, according to new data gathered by the Spitzer Space Telescope.…
A new map developed by an international team of astronomers should help you find your way around the Universe -…
A Soyuz capsule carrying the crew of Expedition 13 and space tourist Anousheh Ansari landed safely in the steppes of…
Astronomers think they've got a handle on how Sun-sized stars come together. But the formation of the largest stars -…
Astronomers used to believe that all Type 1a supernovae were essentially the same brightness. That's because they explode with the…
Ancient Chinese astronomers recorded the occurence of a bright star in the sky in 185 AD; probably a supernova explosion.…
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has directly imaged a small brown dwarf star orbiting a larger star - the first time…
Einstein was right. Well, according to new observations of a double pulsar, he was at least 99.95% right. An international…