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‘Dead’ Galaxies Mysteriously Ran Out of Fuel to Make Stars in...

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'Dead' Galaxies Mysteriously Ran Out of Fuel to Make Stars in Early Universe Taking advantage of a phenomenon that allows astronomers to use...

Astronomers uncover evidence that there could be many more Earth-sized planets...

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New findings from a team using the international Gemini Observatory and the WIYN 3.5-meter Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory suggest that Earth-sized worlds...

MeerKAT joins the ranks of the world’s great scientific instruments through...

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IMAGE 1: MeerKAT First Light image. Each white dot represents the intensity of radio waves recorded with 16 dishes of the MeerKAT telescope in...

Let there be light: Super bright galaxies of the early Universe

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A very distant galaxy cluster in the early Universe.Credit: ESO Astronomers have shed further light on the evolution of the early Universewith the discovery of...

‘Wasteful’ galaxies launch heavy elements into surrounding halos and deep space

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Spiral galaxies like the Milky Way are shown in the center, surrounded by the circumgalactic medium, which appears as black to our eyes. However,...

Astronomers smash cosmic records to see hydrogen in distant galaxy

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Artist's impression of the galaxy.Credit: ICRAR/Peter Ryan An international team of scientists has pushed the limits of radio astronomy to detect a faint signal emitted...

Hubble finds clues to the birth of supermassive black holes

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This artist's impression shows a possible seed for the formation of a supermassive black hole. Two of these possible seeds were discovered by an...

Astrophysicists detect most luminous diffuse gamma-ray emission from Arp 220

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Griffin and Dai developed the data collection methodology used to detect the gamma-ray emission from Arp 220. Credit: University of Oklahoma and NASA A University of...

A beautiful instance of stellar ornamentation

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In this image from ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), light from blazing blue stars energises the gas left over from the stars' recent formation....

Stellar cannibalism transforms star into brown dwarf

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White dwarf (right) stripping mass from the brown dwarf. Credit: Rene Breton, University of Manchester. Astronomers have detected a sub-stellar object that used to be...

Second strongest shock wave found in merging galaxy clusters

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The RGB (Red Green Blue image) of the cluster. Red color shows optical radiation, Green shows Radio and Blue color shows X-rays emission.Credit: Chandra...