A Keck for the specks

The faintest and the most distant objects in the heavens no longer remain invincible with the introduction of the powerful Keck Telescope, the …

Another of the same kind

Geneva Observatory astronomers Study spectral lines in the visible spectrum and detect a planet thefirst to be observed outside our own planetary …

Stars apart

X-ray emissions from a contracting mass of gas far away in the universe raises questions about the birth of the solar system

Over before we knew it

Lenoid meteor shower, the biggest astronomical non-event of 1998, caused hardly any damage to orbiting satellites

Watch: What 30 years of Hubble has meant for humanity

The telescope has been the eyes of astrinomers above the Earth's atmosphere

Rare pulsar found

Birth of a galaxy

Mirror in the mountains

The pull against the push

Cosmologists take a closer look at how gravity is strangling an expanding universe

Bright lights

Scientists may soon know what powers quasars

Heavenly computers

Computers assist astronomers in classifying galaxies

A trail of discovery

Recent observations on comet Hyakutake shed new light on the information of our solar system

Crash-landed!

High in spirits!

Crowded with stars

Gaseous core

This ancient Universe

The Hubble Space Telescope detects some of the oldest galaxies in the Universe

Not that hungry

The Universe's early days

The ray attack

Powerful rays from the edge of the Universe reach Earth

Matter unknown

Charting the Universe

Inter stellar discovery

Starlight fading

Death conquers all. Stars die too, in more ways than one

Bigger bangs

They are bigger than exploding stars. And astronomers are tracking them like crazy