Even as the recent photographs from the Hubble Space Telescope made news, radio observations made over the last three years by the NASA Deep Space Network anten- na at Goldstone,

SCIENCE fiction teleserials like Star Trek may not be gifts of over-stretched imagination, after all. Two independent sightings of a planet around a sun-like star dispel the notion that our solar

Still a source of wonder for some, no great shakes for others, the recent total solar eclipse was a memorable spectacle

A team of astronomers at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile have sighted the most dis- tant supernova. The redshift (a measure of how fast the object is

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

The Hubble Telescope helps bring quasars closer

Analysis of about 90 quasars in the ongoing quasar survey at the 500 cm telescope at Mount Palomar, California, has shed some interesting light on the ages of quasars (see accompanying

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Researchers almost catch a glimpse of the ravenous vortexes in the Universe which don't even let light escape their gravitational grip

Observations support the hypothesis that thousands of comets are present in a belt on the periphery of our Solar System