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'Oldest star' found from iron fingerprint: astronomers Australian astronomers on Sunday said they had found a star 13.6 billion years old, making it the most ancient star ever seen.

10 February 2014

Chile observatory finds the coldest spot in space The coldest place in the universe -- just one degree above absolute zero, the temperatures at which all atoms freeze -- is the Boomerang Nebula.

01 November 2013

Chinese no longer banned from NASA astronomy meet Six Chinese scientists who were banned from a NASA astronomy conference are now welcome to register, resolving an international row over academic discrimination.

22 October 2013

Is the 'Christmas Comet' cracking up? An incoming comet that skygazers had hoped would provide one of the greatest celestial shows of the century, could be a fizzle.

18 October 2013

Space 'graveyard' reveals bits of an Earth-like planet Astronomers have autopsied a distant, broken apart planet and revealed signs of water and a rocky surface together for the first time, delighting scientists on the hunt for alien life.

12 October 2013

NASA vows to review ban on Chinese astronomers The US space agency Thursday vowed to reconsider the applications of Chinese scientists who were denied access to a NASA conference on security grounds.

11 October 2013

Planet found floating without star in space Astronomers said Wednesday they have found a lonely planet outside the solar system floating alone in space and not orbiting a star.

10 October 2013

Kazakhstan astronomers to help build unique telescope Kazakhstan astronomers will take part in the Ultraviolet international project of the World Space Observatory.

08 October 2013

Perseid meteor shower peaks over Kazakhstan Kazakhstan residents can witness the peak of the Perseid meteor shower at night on August 11 and 12.

12 August 2013

Perseid meteoroids to produce great balls of fire Stargazers will be treated to a spectacular fireball show early next week when Earth hits a belt of comet debris known as the Perseids.

09 August 2013

Australia switches on telescope to explore universe origins Australia took a major step towards the ambitious Square Kilometre Array (SKA) astronomy project with the switching on Tuesday of a test telescope to explore the origins of the universe.

10 July 2013

New technique finetunes quest for life on other worlds European astronomers said on Friday they had devised a technique to detect water in the atmosphere of planets orbiting other stars.

05 July 2013

Chile observatory discovers 'comet factory' A "dust trap" surrounding a young star could help explain how planets are formed.

07 June 2013

World's largest ground-based space array to open in Chile In a super-arid desert at an altitude of 5,000 meters, with almost no humidity or vegetation, the world's largest ground-based astronomy project opens for business Wednesday ready to probe the universe with unprecedented might.

13 March 2013

Scientists spot birth of giant planet Astronomers using a powerful telescope in southern Chile have captured the first direct image of a protoplanet forming around another star, still embedded in thick gas and dust.

01 March 2013

Earth-like planets may be closer than thought: study Scientists looking for habitable planets may not have to stray far from our galactic neighborhood, which calculated an Earth-size planet could be orbiting a red dwarf as near as 13 light years away.

08 February 2013

Scientists record most powerful quasar blast ever US astronomers have detected the most powerful blast from a quasar ever recorded, offering the first proof of important theories about why the universe is shaped the way it is.

30 November 2012

Planet with four suns discovered An international team of amateur and professional astronomers on Monday announced the discovery of a planet whose skies are lit up by four suns -- the first reported case of such a phenomenon.

16 October 2012

Giant Chile telescope spots unique spiral structure Astronomers using a powerful Chile-based telescope on Wednesday released a rare image of a spiral shell of cosmic dust and gas surrounding a red giant star.

12 October 2012

Two 'hot Jupiters' found in star cluster: NASA US scientists have for the first time found proof that planets can form and survive around sun-like stars within dense star clusters, NASA said Friday.

15 September 2012

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