Astronomers
New NASA Study Improves Search for Habitable Worlds
The new work will help astronomers allocate scarce observing time to the most promising candidates for habitability.
Astronomers witness huge cosmic crash, find origins of gold
Thousands of astronomers found the aftermath of the merger in the sky.
There’s nothing absolute about time
As the shrinking star approaches the state of a black hole, its environment encounters stronger effect of its gravitational attraction.
First exomoon may have been discovered
A second, smaller dip that appears ahead of or behind the planet could reveal a moon.
Astronomers stunned by 3 different ages in a stellar 'nursery' in Milky Way
The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope in Chile spotted three distinct groups of baby stars in the Orion nebula.
Indian astronomers discover large supercluster of galaxies 'Saraswati'
This is one of the largest known structures in the neighbourhood of the universe, 4,000 million light-years away from Earth.
Largest map of universe created
As matter and energy fall into a quasar's black hole, they heat up to incredible temperatures and begin to glow.
'Super-Earth' orbiting nearby star boosts search for extra-solar life
Named LHS 1140b, the planet orbits a star 40 light years away
Large asteroid to hurtle past Earth on April 19
An asteroid as big as the Rock of Gibraltar will streak past Earth on April 19 at a safe but uncomfortably close distance
Astronomers works to puzzle out black hole
The targeted black hole is hidden in plain sight, lurking in the centre of the Milky Way in a region called Sagittarius constellation