Astronomers from the US and France have mapped out the motion of a stars in the outskirts of the Andromeda…
An international team of astronomers have found evidence that certain kinds of gamma-ray bursts, which are associated with Type 1C…
Astronomers have analyzed the dusty discs of newly forming planets around other stars, and have discovered that rocky planets (like…
When high-energy cosmic ray particles crash into the Earth's atmosphere, they produce some of the brightest radio flashes ever seen…
Cosmologists from Princeton are working on new tests that could help to explain the nature of "dark energy", a mysterious…
A team of amateur Canadian astronomers took the helm at the powerful Gemini 8-metre telescope atop Hawaii's Mauna Kea for…
Usually it's the biggest things that get the news, but an international team of researchers have demonstrated that the tiny…
Think astronomy is a boring task of poring over data or staring at star chart after start chart? Sometimes, it…
With the launch of NASA's Swift spacecraft, Gamma Ray Bursts - those "most powerful explosions in the Universe" - have…
Our Sun can flare up from time to time, but probably nothing like the superflares it created in its early…