Cousins in space

Observation of the star Lalande 21185 could lead to the first direct imaging of another solar planet

Witness to genesis

Cosmologists spy on galaxies being born, and conclude that these massive stellar assemblages might have formed earlier than believed

Far but near

Detection of two galaxies that are unassociated with a quasar raise further questions about galactic evolution

Hey, how old are you?

The age of a newly discovered galaxy defies the predictions of the standard cosmological model, meaning some more work for the theoreticians

Mystery behind the dazzle

Far away from the sun but exceptionally bright, the comet Hale-Bopp has baffled a lot of scientists who are struggling to explain its strange …

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

The direction of time

The universe is not symmetrical when it comes to time

Distant planets

Far-away planets

Track a falling star

Why does a shooting star take millions of years to hit the Earth?

Dynamics of dust

A new study explains the phenomenon of dust rising from the lunar surface

Cosmic poser

The fate of our universe depends on one question: open or closed?

Found at last

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!