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HD1, the farthest known galaxy, is discovered 13.5 billion light-years away from Earth.
2022-04-8

Astronomers announce the discovery of the first fast radio burst (FRB) signal detected in the Milky Way galaxy. The signal is believed to be coming from a magnetar.
2020-11-4

Astronomers rule out the chances of ~30-meter asteroid 2006 QV impacting Earth in September 2019 by eliminating the possibility of its passing through an area where it would have to be if it were on an impacting orbit. Prior to this, the asteroid had been given a one-in-7,000 chance of impacting Earth.
2019-07-17

Astronomers use the Hubble Space Telescope to discover GN-z11, the remotest galaxy yet discovered.
2016-03-3

Astronomers announce the discovery of V774104, the most distant object yet found in the Solar System, a dwarf planet orbiting at three times the distance of Pluto.
2015-11-11

Astronomers say they have observed bizarre light patterns using the Kepler Space Telescope from a star that appears old, but is shrouded in debris like a much younger star, roughly 1,500 light-years away. This has led to speculation that these are an "artificial extraterrestrial mega-structure", orbiting the star known as KIC 8462852 in the Cygnus constellation. KIC 8462852 lies just above the Milky Way between the constellations Cygnus and Lyra. It first attracted the attention of astronomers in 2009 when the Kepler Space Telescope identified it as a candidate for having orbiting Earth-like planets.
2015-10-15

Ultracompact dwarf galaxy M60-UCD1 is revealed to be the smallest known galaxy to have a supermassive black hole at its centre.
2014-09-18

Astronomers announce that the newly discovered double star system WISE 1049-5319 is the third-closest neighbor to the Solar System.
2013-03-11

Huge-LQG, a large quasar group, the largest known structure in the Universe, is discovered by a team of astronomers using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
2013-01-11

ESO astronomers discover an unexpected spiral structure around carbon star R Sculptoris.
2012-10-10