Astronomers detect biggest explosion ever seen in the universe

Washington/Xinhua/UNI: Astronomers detected the biggest explosion ever seen in the universe, coming from a black hole in a distant galaxy cluster hundreds of millions of light years away.

Scientists find a young star caught forming like a planet

London, Dec 16 (IBNS): Astronomers have captured one of the most detailed views of a young star taken to date, and revealed an unexpected companion in orbit around it.

Astronomers discover a new branch in the family tree of exoplanets

Toronto, July 8 (IBNS): A new study involving scientists from UdeM's iREx reveals super-Earths and larger mini-Neptunes in our galaxy.

Astronomers gain new insight into magnetic field of Sun and its kin

California, July 28 (IBNS): Astronomers have used data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to make a discovery that may have profound implications for understanding how the magnetic field in the Sun and stars like it are generated.

Astronomers discover dizzying spin of the Milky Way Galaxy’s “Halo"

Washington, July 26 (IBNS) Astronomers at the University of Michigan’s College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA) discovered for the first time that the hot gas in the halo of the Milky Way galaxy is spinning in the same direction and at comparable speed as the galaxy's disk, which contains our stars, planets, gas, and dust.

Astronomers find the first 'Wind Nebula' around a Magnetar

Washington, June 22 (IBNS): Astronomers have discovered a vast cloud of high-energy particles called a wind nebula around a rare ultra-magnetic neutron star, or magnetar, for the first time.

Astronomers discover colossal 'Super Spiral' galaxies

Washington, Mar 18 (IBNS) A strange new kind of galactic beast has been spotted in the cosmic wilderness. Dubbed "super spirals," these unprecedented galaxies dwarf our own spiral galaxy, the Milky Way, and compete in size and brightness with the largest galaxies in the universe.