NASA is executing an unprecedented, first-of-its-kind rescue mission to save the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, a highly successful 21-yea...

NASA is launching a daring $30 million mission this week to rescue the aging Swift Observatory from falling back to Earth. A robotic lifesa...

Social media rumours claim interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is hurtling towards Earth, with some even suggesting it's alien tech. NASA and ESA, ...

Meteor showers are a yearly treat and are going to light up the skies again. According to American Meteor Society, the meteor shower occurs...

An international team of astronomers, including experts from Pune’s IUCAA, has made significant strides in understanding black hole-star dy...

Researchers from IIT Guwahati and ISRO have discovered surprisingly low polarization in X-rays emitted by the Galactic Ultraluminous Pulsar...

On the night of August 11, skywatchers will witness the peak of the Perseid meteor shower, offering up to 100 meteors per hour. Simultaneou...

The Hubble Space Telescope observed a significant reduction in Neptune's cloud cover. Researchers discovered that solar UV radiation influe...

The T Coronae Borealis binary system nova event, repeating every 80 years, may erupt by September 2024. Stargazers can witness this rare ph...

Swift was originally designed to study gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful explosions in the cosmos. Since the satellite launched, however,...

Washington, Oct 17 (IANS) In yet another interstellar feat, scientists at the LIGO detectors and the world over detected the first "ripples...

Washington, Oct 5 (IANS) The unusual dips in brightness that a stellar object known as Tabby's Star experiences could be due to an uneven d...

Washington, Feb 7 (IANS) Astronomers have detected a giant black hole that ripped apart a star and then gorged on its remains for an unusua...

As it travels inwards to be ingested by the black hole, the material heats up to millions of degrees and generates a distinct X-ray flare.

London, Feb 1 (IANS) Observing a curious neutron star in a binary system known as the 'Rapid Burster', scientists have found that its magne...

On June 15, one of NASA's satellites picked up a torrent of x-rays all coming from a single source: the black hole.

A compact source of X-rays that sits near the black hole, called the corona, has moved closer to the black hole over a period of just days.