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A group of experts have made predictions about the next cycle of the sun, suggesting that the 24th cycle will peak at May 2013 with the number of black spots below avera…
Using ESO's ultra-large VLT telescope, astronomers have succeeded in determining the size of the giant Messier 87 galaxy.
Since the early 1990s, astronomers have found more than 300 planets orbiting sun-like stars, nearly all of which are giants like Jupiter.
International astronomers have just taken the most distant object image ever seen in the universe - 13 billion light-years from Earth.
Several hundred giant black holes can suck everything left from the early stages of the universe flying in our galaxy, according to a new study.
Thanks to the ability to detect the occurrence of extraterrestrial planets orbiting distant stars, scientists are now able to study hundreds of solar systems.
Scientists at the University of Toronto and the University of British Columbia have helped reveal the
Scientists have discovered a cosmic bubble generated from the release of gas from a dying star, up to 60 light-years across and approximately 70,000 years old.
Does the Earth have twins that exist somewhere in our galaxy?
A new image processing technology could allow astronomers to discover extraterrestrial planets that might be lurking in the data of more than a decade of the Hubble Spac…
The large market camera of La Silla Observatory (ESO) has just captured a picture of Helix planetary nebula.
The new image by the Spitzer Space Telescope (NASA) shows that impending collisions occur between the central part of the two galaxies.
The Fermi telescope of the US Aerospace Agency (NASA) has discovered a massive explosion in the universe that could, according to scientists, be the largest gamma ray ex…
The latest ESO image reveals incredible detail in the complex structure of one of the largest and brightest nebula in the sky, the Carina Nebula (NGC 3372).