Archaeologists have found a small room in Mayan ruins where royal scribes apparently used walls like a blackboard to keep track of astronomical records and the society's intricate calendar some 1,200 years ago. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
Japanese astronomers said Wednesday they had found a cluster of galaxies 12.72 billion light-years away from Earth, which they claim is the most distant cluster ever discovered. (Source: AFP)... [Full Article]
The more astronomers look for other worlds, the more they find that it's a crowded and crazy cosmos. They think planets easily outnumber stars in our galaxy and they're even finding them in the strangest of places. (Source: Associated Pres... [Full Article]
After decades of scouring the universe, astronomers finally have found two immense clouds of gas that are pristine - free of the metals fired out into the cosmos by stars. (Source: AP)... [Full Article]
LONDON (Reuters) - Astronomers have spotted an exotic planet that seems to be made of diamond racing around a tiny star in our galactic backyard. (Source: Reuters)... [Full Article]
(AFP/File) - The moon during a total lunar eclipse. Astronomers in parts of Europe, Africa, Central Asia and Australia were hoping for clear skies to enjoy a total lunar eclipse, the first of 2011 and the longest in nearly 11 years.(AFP/File/Jose Cab... [Full Article]
(News) - Astronomers captured this stunning photo of galaxy NGC 6744, a spiral galaxy often called a ’twin’ of our own Milky Way. The galaxy is 30 million light-years away, and nearly twice the size of the Milky Way. (Photo: ESO)... [Full Article]
(European Southern Observatory) - European astronomers on Tuesday said they had found a distant star orbited by at least five planets in the biggest discovery of so-called exoplanets since the first was logged 15 years ago.(European Southern Observat... [Full Article]
(AFP/NASA-HO/FIle) - View of a star cluster in outer space. Astronomers have discovered a new Earth-like planet that is larger than our own and may be more than half covered with water, according to a study published Wednesday in the science journal ... [Full Article]
(Canadian Press) - Amateur astronomers observe the night sky for the Leonid meteor shower at a hilltop near the village of Nagrakot, 32 kilometers northeast of Katmandu, Nepal. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Gemunu Amarasinghe)... [Full Article]