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Stars’ age measured to uncover Milky Way’s history

A new discovery of stars’ age may help understand how our Milky Way galaxy built itself up over bill...

LOFAR captures images of colliding galaxy cluster

The International LOFAR Telescope has made the first images of galaxy cluster Abell 2256 in the freq...

Universe may be teeming with nomad planets

A recent study proposed that the galaxy is packed with nomad planets adrift in space.

Galaxy-packed massive filament discovered

Using the Herschel Space Observatory, a McGill-led research team has discovered a giant, galaxy-pack...

Scientists watch black hole feast on unlucky star

Scientists have witnessed the rare spectacle of a supermassive black hole devouring a star that had ...

Rogue stars ejected from Milky Way found in intergalactic space

Researchers have identified a group of more than 675 stars on the outskirts of the Milky Way that th...

Neutrinos `may soon be measured accurately`

Planetary scientists claim that their new research would for the first time help astronomers accurat...

Universe has many more stars than known?

Some of the oldest galaxies in the Universe have three times more stellar mass, and so many more sta...

New Galaxy phone to use its quad-core processor: Samsung

Samsung Electronics Co said on Thursday it would mass-produce its faster, energy-saving quad-core mo...

Japan astronomers find most distant galaxy cluster

Japanese astronomers said today they had found a cluster of galaxies 12.72 billion light-years away ...

US judge sends Apple, Samsung to settlement talks

Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd agreed that their chief executives would participate in set...

Samsung launches Galaxy S Advance, Galaxy Pocket

Samsung has a range of 19 Smartphone models with prices in the range between Rs 7,350 and Rs 38,250.

How red giant stars lose weight `revealed`

Astronomers claim to have finally revealed how the red giant stars of our galaxy lose massive weigh...

Samsung updates tablets on heels of iPad refresh

The storage space on the new Galaxy Tab 2 will also be expandable with small memory cards.

China lays claim to `biggest’ catalogue of galaxy clusters

Galaxy clusters are known as the largest gravitationally bound objects in the universe.

Hubble captures dusty lanes in `UFO` Galaxy

Earth-orbiting Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a spiral galaxy - seen almost edge-on - that resem...

Scientists image billion stars of Milky Way in detail

More than a billion stars in our galaxy can be seen together in detail for the first time in an imag...

$Runaway planets zoom at a fraction of light speed$

Runaway planets zoom at a fraction of light speed

Scientists have confirmed the existence of runaway planets, some of which zoom through space at a fe...

Samsung: "Fast executioner" seeks killer design

The company had seen a 1 trillion won profit in its telecom sector in the first quarter of 2010 halv...

Astronomers spot `emerald-cut` galaxy

Astronomers have identified an extremely rare galaxy resembling an emerald-cut diamond, a shape tota...

Astronomers get widest deep view of sky ever recorded

European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) VISTA telescope has captured a treasure trove of over 200 000 ...

Distant young galaxy cluster `discovered`

Planetary scientists claim to have discovered a distant young galaxy cluster located 10.5 billion li...

Most distant ‘galaxy city’ discovered

The astronomers used FourStar, a new and powerful near-infrared camera on the 6.5m Magellan Baade Te...

Origin of exploding star discovered

Scientists have unearthed the origin of an important type of exploding stars—Type Ia supernovae.

Galactic collision creates ‘puzzling’ dark matter core

Astronomers using data from NASA’s Hubble Telescope have spotted what appears to be a tuft of dark m...

How monster black holes shape their galaxies

Astronomers have been mystified by the curious correlation that exists between the mass of a galaxy’...

Pulsars can help detect gravitational waves

Pulsars are perhaps the most extraordinary physics laboratories in the Universe.

A rare black hole that survived galaxy destruction

Astronomers have spotted a rare mid-weight black hole some 290 million light-years from Earth.

Relic of shredded galaxy captured

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a cluster of young blue stars ...

‘Stealth merger’ of dwarf galaxies captured

New images of a neighbouring dwarf galaxy have revealed a dense stream of stars in its outer regions...

Hubble’s image offers clear view of barred spiral

Most spiral galaxies in the Universe have a bar structure in their centre. Now, new image taken by H...

Samsung condemns `anti-Iran` ad featuring its tablet

Samsung Electronics today condemned an Israeli commercial featuring a Samsung tablet, expressing dis...

Map of Milky Way`s magnetic fields charted

An international team of scientists pooled their radio observations into a database to produce the h...

Hubble zooms in on brightest ever galaxy

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a uniquely close-up view of the brightest distant “magnif...

‘Sloshing’ galaxy cluster discovered

Scientists have spotted vast clouds of hot gas ‘sloshing’ in Abell 2052, a galaxy cluster situated n...

Distant faint `satellite galaxy` discovered

Astronomers have discovered a faint satellite galaxy 10 billion light years from Earth.

How matter clumps together in the universe

For the first time, astronomers claim to have used visual data from nearly a million luminous galaxi...

Milky Way ‘seems as white as spring snow’

When seen from another galaxy, milky-way would appear like the shade of fine-grained spring snow.

Astronomers see more planets than stars in galaxy

The more astronomers look for other worlds, the more they find that it is a crowded and crazy cosmos...

A ‘fat’ distant galaxy cluster called El Gordo

An international team of astronomers have located a massive, hot young galaxy cluster nicknamed “El ...

Samsung unveils new tablet, available via Verizon

Samsung Electronics Co unveiled its latest tablet using a 7.7-inch OLED display on Monday.

‘Eye shaped’ galaxy staring from space

Scientists have captured the image of a nearby galaxy bearing resemblance to an eye, which contains ...

Most distant galaxy produces 100 suns per year

Astronomers have discovered that one of the most distant galaxies known is churning out stars at a s...

Beauty of ‘starburst’ galaxy captured

Astronomers have captured perhaps the most detailed wide-field view of nearby spiral galaxy NGC 253 ...

‘White dwarf’ triggers giant supernovae explosion

Some of the brightest known explosions in the universe, type 1a supernovae, are triggered by ancient...

UV emission of hydrogen detected in Milky Way

Astronomers have detected ultraviolet (UV) emissions of neutral hydrogen in Earth’s own galaxy for t...

Verizon says not blocking Google Wallet

US wireless service provider Verizon Wireless (VZ.N) said it was not blocking Google Inc`s payments ...

Apple vs Samsung ruling divulges secret details

US court error on Friday offered a brief glimpse at information that Apple Inc (AAPL.O) and Samsung ...

Scientists find monster black holes, biggest yet

Scientists have found the biggest black holes known to exist each one 10 billion times the size of o...

Samsung Galaxy Y to be unveiled this week

The smartphone, which comes at an affordable price, is essentially meant for the young generation.

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