Small `red nugget` galaxies packed with red stars found near Earth

Last Updated: Saturday, September 14, 2013, 10:12

Astronomers have found the previously undiscovered `red nuggets` - small galaxies densely packed with red stars - near Earth.

Hubble spots largest known population of star clusters

Last Updated: Friday, September 13, 2013, 17:00

NASA`s Hubble space telescope has discovered the largest known population of globular star clusters - an estimated 160,000 - more than two billion light years away from Earth.

Giant Magellan telescope to be 10 times sharper than Hubble

Last Updated: Sunday, August 25, 2013, 13:30

An enormous mirror is set to be cast inside a scorching-hot furnace, marking a key milestone in the development of a future telescope that will collect more light than any instrument built to date.

Astronomers probing how black holes shape galaxy evolution

Last Updated: Friday, August 23, 2013, 14:02

Astronomers have assembled photos to make a series of time-lapse movies showing a jet of superheated gas being ejected from a supermassive black hole.

Mature-looking galaxies existed 11.5 bn years ago

Last Updated: Friday, August 16, 2013, 10:23

Astronomers have claimed that mature looking galaxies existed much earlier than previously known, when the universe was just about 2.5 billion years old.

Hubble solves 40-year-old mystery of source of elusive Magellanic Stream

Last Updated: Friday, August 9, 2013, 10:04

Astronomers have unraveled a 40-year mystery on the origin of the Magellanic Stream, which is a long ribbon of gas stretching nearly halfway around our Milky Way galaxy.

Light from 12-billion-year old star`s explosion detected

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 7, 2013, 15:12

Researchers have detected the light from a star that exploded more than 12 billion years ago.

Mystery behind fireball after gamma ray burst revealed

Last Updated: Sunday, August 4, 2013, 16:13

NASA`s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered that short-duration gamma ray bursts are produced by the merger of two small, super-dense stellar objects.

New Neptune moon discovered

Last Updated: Tuesday, July 16, 2013, 09:24

The Hubble space telescope has found a new moon orbiting Neptune, the 14th known to be circling the blue-green planet, US space agency NASA said.

Blue planet where it rains glass discovered

Last Updated: Friday, July 12, 2013, 09:10

For the first time, astronomers have identified the true colour of a planet beyond our solar system.

Hubble reveals temperature variations of `hot Jupiters`

Last Updated: Sunday, July 7, 2013, 11:27

Hot Jupiters are giant exoplanets, similar in size to Jupiter that orbit so close to their stars that their atmospheres can reach temperatures of 1000-3000 degrees Celsius.