Last Updated: Thursday, January 19, 2012, 11:34
Astronomers have discovered a faint satellite galaxy 10 billion light years from Earth.
Last Updated: Thursday, January 12, 2012, 08:19
The more astronomers look for other worlds, the more they find that it is a crowded and crazy cosmos. They think planets easily outnumber stars in our galaxy and they are even finding them in the strangest of places.
Last Updated: Tuesday, January 10, 2012, 08:27
International astronomers said today they have created the largest map of dark matter ever observed in the universe, using data from potent telescopes that scanned 10 million galaxies.
Last Updated: Friday, October 7, 2011, 17:13
Astronomers have tracked two elusive extrasolar planets that went undetected in image data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope for 13 years.
Last Updated: Thursday, August 18, 2011, 09:00
That old Moon might not be as antique as we thought, some scientist think. They say it`s possible that it isn`t a day over 4.4 billion years old.
Last Updated: Wednesday, June 29, 2011, 17:21
The flare took place on a neutron star, the collapsed heart of a once much larger star. Now about 10 km in diameter, the neutron star is so dense that it generates a strong gravitational field.
Last Updated: Wednesday, June 15, 2011, 18:22
An international team, including scientists from the University of Oxford, has discovered 10 new planets.
Last Updated: Wednesday, June 8, 2011, 12:54
All planets are known to move around their stars in the same direction as the star spins. But, now astronomers have spotted a heavenly body which they claim breaks the mould.
Last Updated: Wednesday, June 1, 2011, 17:38
Astronomers in Europe claim to have captured a striking image of a giant Milky Way "clone".
Last Updated: Saturday, May 14, 2011, 09:13
A massive radio telescope in Virginia has begun listening for signs of alien life on 86 planets.
Last Updated: Friday, April 29, 2011, 19:16
An exoplanet is a planet outside the solar system.
Last Updated: Monday, January 17, 2011, 18:48
Astronomers discovered what they say is the biggest ever black hole which weighs the same as 6.8 billion suns.
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