The largest and most powerful space telescope will be launched this month in a tandem mission that promises to transform understanding of the origins of the Universe and the birth of its stars and galaxies.The Herschel space observatory will blast off>>

24 unusual stars,18 of them newly discovered, have been observed in new Hubble telescope images.The stars are white dwarfs,a common type of dead star, but they are odd because they are made of helium rather than the usual carbon and oxygen."Helium-core>>

Astronomers have found the most distant signs of water in the Universe to date. The water vapor is thought to be contained in a jet ejected from a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy,named MG J0414+0534.The water emission is seen as a maser>

Two newly described fossil whales---a pregnant female and a male of the same species--reveal how primitive whales gave birth and provide new insights into how whales made the transition from land to sea.The 47.5 million-year-old fossils,discovered in>>

Astronomers have observed the intense heating of a distant planet as it swung close to its parent star.The researchers used NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope to obtain infrared measurements of the heat emanating from the planet as it whipped behind and close

Two independent groups have simultaneously made the first-ever ground-based detection of extrasolar planets thermal emissions.These new results open a new frontier to studying these alien worlds and are especially critical because the major space-based >>

There is jubilation at the Museum of Cultural History at the University of Oslo i Norway.Marina Prusac,Associate Professor in the department of archaeology,has just returned home after conducting excavations in the border area between Croatia and Bosnia->

A new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows a turbulent star-forming region,where rivers of gas and stellar winds are eroding thickets of dusty material.Spitzer's new infrared view of the stormy region,called M17,or the Swan nebula.The Swan is>

By watching the motions of 28 stars orbiting the Milky Way's most central region with admirable patience and amazing precision,astronomers have been able to study the supermassive black hole lurking there. It is known as "Sagittarius A*"The new research>

A researcher at the University of Portsmouth has identified a new species of pterosaur,the largest of its kind to ever be found.It represents an entirely new genus of these flying reptiles that ruled the skies 115 million years ago.The finding is >>>