ESA`s billion star-hunter telescope enters orbit

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 8, 2014, 18:26

Europe`s billion-star hunting telescope has successfully entered its operational orbit to gather data for the most accurate 3D map yet of our Milky Way galaxy, the European Space Agency (ESA) said.

Hubble space telescope finds deep sea of small, faint early galaxies

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 8, 2014, 12:39

NASA`s Hubble Space Telescope has found the long-suspected underlying population of galaxies, which produced the bulk of new stars during the universe`s early years.

Storms as big as Jupiter`s `great red spot` discovered on brown dwarfs

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 8, 2014, 10:24

New observations from NASA`s Spitzer Space Telescope have suggested that most brown dwarfs also feature one or more Jupiter`s "Great Red Spot" like planet-size storms.

Newly discovered small exoplanets may be fluffy

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 7, 2014, 10:33

During its four-year mission, NASA`s Kepler space telescope discovered thousands of "planetary candidates" in our Milky Way galaxy, many of which were found to be covered in gas.

Fresh supernova dust may help explain early galaxy formation

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 7, 2014, 10:25

Researchers using Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope have found a recent supernova that is brimming with freshly formed dust.

First ever gamma-ray study of gravitational lens conducted

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 7, 2014, 10:18

Astronomers using NASA`s Fermi observatory, has made the first-ever gamma-ray measurements of a gravitational lens - a natural telescope formed when a rare cosmic alignment allows the gravity of a massive object to bend and amplify light from a more distant source.

Triple star system which holds clues to gravity discovered

Last Updated: Monday, January 6, 2014, 18:51

Astronomers have discovered a unique triple star system which could reveal the true nature of gravity.

Triple star system can reveal gravity`s secrets

Last Updated: Monday, January 6, 2014, 12:26

Astronomers have said that a newly discovered triple system featuring a neutron star and two white dwarfs have given them best opportunity yet to study complex gravitational interactions and may give clue to true nature of gravity.

NASA`s Hubble discovers clouds on alien planet

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 1, 2014, 18:37

NASA`s Hubble telescope has discovered clouds in the atmosphere of a super-Earth type planet 40-light years away, providing the first-ever weather forecast for a planet outside our solar system.

Exoplanets may be blanketed with clouds

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 1, 2014, 10:40

Scientists using NASA`s Hubble Space Telescope have found that the atmospheres of two of the most common type of planets in the Milky Way galaxy may be blanketed with clouds.

Why some stars are bigger than others

Last Updated: Saturday, December 21, 2013, 13:49

Astronomers have used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope to survey the cores of some of the darkest, coldest, and densest clouds in Milky Way galaxy to search for the telltale signs of star formation.

Super star puts on spectacular light show

Last Updated: Wednesday, December 18, 2013, 10:59

Researchers have observed in a NASA Hubble Space Telescope image that bright southern hemisphere star RS Puppis, at the center of the photograph, is swaddled in a gossamer cocoon of reflective dust illuminated by the glittering star.