How circumbinary planets form revealed

Last Updated: Saturday, February 1, 2014, 15:32

Researchers using Kepler space telescope have discovered how circumbinary planets form.

Now, you too can become a planetary nursery finding `detective`

Last Updated: Friday, January 31, 2014, 13:31

NASA has begun inviting the public to help astronomers discover embryonic planetary systems hidden among data from the agency`s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission through a new website, DiskDetective.org.

Mystery of ultra-compact, burned-out galaxies solved

Last Updated: Thursday, January 30, 2014, 11:37

Astronomers using NASA`s Hubble Space Telescope and Europe`s Herschel Space Observatory have pieced together the evolutionary sequence of compact elliptical galaxies, which erupted and burned out when the universe was only 3 billion years old.

US to offload 10 telescopes, astronomers worried

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 29, 2014, 18:45

The National Science Foundation (NSF), an independent US government agency responsible to promote science and engineering - is looking for partners to take over its share of operations for 10 telescopes.

Astronomers discover river of hydrogen flowing through space

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 28, 2014, 11:24

Astronomers have discovered a river of hydrogen flowing through space and into a nearby galaxy.

NASA launches newest communication satellite

Last Updated: Friday, January 24, 2014, 11:12

NASA`s super-high-flying fleet of communication satellites just got bigger. An unmanned rocket blasted into a chilly, clear sky last night carrying the latest, third-generation Tracking and Data Relay Satellite.

Astronomers get first glimpse of `glue` of universe

Last Updated: Monday, January 20, 2014, 12:27

Astronomers have found a distant quasar illuminating a vast nebula of diffuse gas, revealing for the first time part of the network of filaments believed to connect galaxies in a cosmic web.

First black hole orbiting `spinning` star discovered

Last Updated: Friday, January 17, 2014, 15:01

Spanish scientists have discovered what may be the first binary system ever known to consist of a black hole and a "spinning" star, which is more accurately known as a Be-type star.