Astronomers discover unusual cosmic lens

Last Updated: Friday, July 16, 2010, 20:33

For the first time astronomers have found a distant as a gravitational lens.

A new type of exploding star discovered

Last Updated: Thursday, May 20, 2010, 13:08

Astronomers have discovered a new type of exploding star, according to a pair of studies.

Astronomers and Cassini spacecraft capture Saturn storm

Last Updated: Saturday, May 1, 2010, 00:03

For the first time, amateur astronomers used the composite infrared spectrometer instrument aboard NASA’s Cassini spacecraft to look at a massive blizzard in Saturn’s atmosphere.

Astronomers `spot mega star cradle`

Last Updated: Wednesday, April 28, 2010, 14:32

The question of how massive stars form is one of the great conundrums of modern astronomy.

`A new camera helps astronomers watch stars being born`

Last Updated: Friday, April 23, 2010, 17:47

The first few images taken by a new near-infrared camera -- LUCIFER 1 -- is helping astronomers observe the faintest and most distant objects in the universe that are usually opaque to visible light.

Astronomers take pictures of exoplanets

Last Updated: Thursday, April 15, 2010, 18:58

By using a small telescope, astronomers took a picture of three small planets orbiting a star outside the Solar System.

Astronomers measure ‘biggest’ comet

Last Updated: Wednesday, April 14, 2010, 12:59

Astronomers have measured Comet McNaught, which is believed to be the biggest comet to date. McNaught was the brightest comet seen since 1965 and, in some places, was visible to the naked eye in broad daylight.

Astronomers solve enigma of eclipsing star

Last Updated: Thursday, April 8, 2010, 12:42

Astronomers on Wednesday said they may have explained the riddle of a dimming star that has perplexed skygazers for nearly two centuries.

Universe expansion is speeding up: Astronomers

Last Updated: Friday, March 26, 2010, 12:53

Astronomers have claimed that the expansion of the universe is accelerating, after studying thousands of galaxies using the Hubble Space Telescope.

Astronomers discover supermassive black holes

Last Updated: Friday, March 19, 2010, 15:59

Astronomers, using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, have discovered two of the earliest and most primitive supermassive black holes known.

Host star destroying massive extra-solar planet: Astronomers

Last Updated: Thursday, February 25, 2010, 19:23

A recently discovered extra-solar planet, which is nearly double of Jupiter`s sizeis being distorted and destroyed by a host star, giving an opportunity to astronomers to observe how a planet enters final stage of its life.

Cannibal star is devouring a planet: Astronomers

Last Updated: Thursday, February 25, 2010, 13:19

Like the Roman god Saturn who ate his own children, a star 600 light years from Earth is slowly gobbling up one of its own planets, according to a study released on Wednesday in Nature, the British science journal.