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The Milky Way's current record holder, Eta Carinae, has some competition in the Peony nebula star
Breaking News - 22:13 15 July 2008
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Astronomers have finished building a detector called ANTARES under the Mediterranean Sea – it will look through the Earth at the southern sky
Breaking News - 16:37 14 July 2008
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The massive, rocky worlds – even those orbiting searingly close to their stars – may provide the right conditions for life
Breaking News - 16:44 11 July 2008
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While observing our own Milky Way, Hubble accidentally imaged star clusters in a distant galaxy that appear puzzlingly red
Breaking News - 23:55 08 July 2008
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The faint, twisting ribbon is actually a fast-moving shock wave from a supernova that exploded in the Middle Ages
Breaking News - 00:00 02 July 2008
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A NASA mission to study dark energy may be too expensive to begin in 2009, as planned
Breaking News - 17:18 01 July 2008
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A new study of nearly a million galaxies suggests matter in the universe is distributed in a fractal pattern
Breaking News - 00:00 25 June 2008
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Dense regions of dark matter in the early universe may have stunted the growth of the first stars – some could still be burning today
Breaking News - 17:41 24 June 2008
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Exoplanet discoveries are streaming in thanks to technological advances – a third of Sun-like stars may host planets a few times heftier than Earth
Breaking News - 16:01 16 June 2008
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New experiments are being proposed to test a big unknown in physics: how antimatter reacts to gravity
Breaking News - 00:03 12 June 2008
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The GLAST satellite will observe the deaths of massive stars and might even pin down the nature of dark matter
Breaking News - 17:21 11 June 2008
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Colossal structures larger than the observable universe may be responsible for a strange pattern seen in the big bang's afterglow
Breaking News - 01:01 10 June 2008
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In a collision of astrophysics and algebra, a study of cosmic mirages known as gravitational lenses completes a mathematical theorem
Breaking News - 08:00 05 June 2008
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Astronomers have long believed that our galaxy possesses four spiral arms, but two have failed to turn up in a new star survey
Breaking News - 22:47 03 June 2008
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The mysterious cosmic force should leave an imprint on the big bang's afterglow – astronomers think they've seen it in the best detail yet
Breaking News - 19:40 23 May 2008
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It's not too soon to start thinking about how to keep extrasolar planets free of terrestrial life, a new paper argues
Breaking News - 16:34 23 May 2008
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A new study bolsters the idea that quantum fuzziness smoothes out a black hole's destructive 'singularity', allowing information to escape
Breaking News - 16:28 16 May 2008
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Measurements of a distant galaxy's gas suggest the universe was about three times warmer 11 billion years ago than it is today
Breaking News - 19:14 15 May 2008
A supernova remnant near the centre of our galaxy turns out to be only 140 years old – the discovery fills a gap in the astronomical record
News - 18:00 14 May 2008
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Last year, researchers suggested ultra-high-energy cosmic rays originated near colossal black holes, but a new study questions that conclusion
Breaking News - 17:44 13 May 2008
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A mammoth black hole has been discovered fleeing its host galaxy at high speed, a team of astronomers says
Breaking News - 23:50 29 April 2008
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Supernovae in the early universe appear to age more slowly than they do today – the expansion of space is to blame
Breaking News - 20:09 28 April 2008
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Colliding galaxies resemble a toothbrush, an owl, a grasshopper and other forms as they smash into and dismember one another
Breaking News - 14:01 23 April 2008
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A planet weighing just 5 Earths may have been detected with a controversial new technique
Breaking News - 16:32 10 April 2008
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Close encounters between three black holes have been modelled for the first time with general relativity – they tend to end in violence
Breaking News - 20:04 09 April 2008
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The world's most powerful laser is now operating – it might create supernova-like shock waves and possibly even antimatter
Breaking News - 18:04 09 April 2008
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Galaxies may 'hug' heavier black holes more tightly than lighter ones, letting researchers weigh the objects at greater distances than now possible
Breaking News - 18:06 08 April 2008
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Expert technicians have melted and spun 24 tonnes of glass to make an 8.4-metre mirror for the ambitious Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
Breaking News - 17:17 07 April 2008
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A team reports finding what may be a planet only a few thousand years old, but others say it may instead be a 'failed star'
Breaking News - 17:42 02 April 2008
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Two stars orbit each other so closely that they share material and resemble a peanut – they could shed light on puzzling supernovae
Breaking News - 21:55 01 April 2008
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The puny black hole weighs just 3.8 times the Sun's mass – the previous record holder is nearly twice as massive
Breaking News - 18:34 01 April 2008
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Rather than exploding as supernovae, stars between 18 and 30 times the Sun's mass may collapse quietly to form black holes
Breaking News - 16:08 01 April 2008
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Flattened mountains as massive as Saturn can build up on neutron stars, triggering long-sought ripples in space, a new study finds
Breaking News - 20:30 31 March 2008
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An intriguing bright spot detected next to a star 470 light years away may indicate the presence of a developing planet
Breaking News - 00:00 27 March 2008
