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- Uranus Spins Sideways, the Stranger Story Is What That Does to the Space Around ItUranus spins on its side, creating a wild magnetosphere. Unlike Earth's stable bubble, Uranus's magnetic field is lopsided and constantly s...08 Mar, 2026, 03.42 PM IST
- Uranus Is Glowing, And It’s Telling Us Something ImportantJames Webb Space Telescope has captured stunning images of Uranus's auroras, revealing details of its unusual magnetic environment. These i...05 Mar, 2026, 04.37 PM IST
- How Close Is the Nearest Earth-Like Planet, Really?Astronomers are actively searching for Earth-like planets, with thousands of exoplanets now confirmed. While Proxima Centauri b is the clos...24 Feb, 2026, 03.29 PM IST
- How Close Is the Nearest Potentially Habitable Exoplanet?Astronomers have identified Proxima Centauri b, a rocky planet just over four light-years away, as the closest potentially habitable exopla...20 Feb, 2026, 03.09 PM IST
- Nearby star hurls plasma into space, astronomers capture it for the first time and it changes everything we know about life on other planetsScientists have confirmed that eruptions from distant stars can escape their star's pull. A radio telescope in the Netherlands detected a t...14 Nov, 2025, 02.52 PM IST
- Could Mercury really have a hidden diamond layer? Explore the new findingsResearchers speculate that Mercury may have a thick diamond layer below the surface. They discovered that graphite may change into diamond ...02 Aug, 2024, 07.55 PM IST
- Did Sun's UV radiation cause Neptune clouds to vanish? Will it affect Earth? Know in detailsThe Hubble Space Telescope observed a significant reduction in Neptune's cloud cover. Researchers discovered that solar UV radiation influe...29 Jun, 2024, 01.56 AM IST
- 'Cannibal', 'zombie' star spotted. Know in detail about the startling discovery in space scienceWhat is a 'cannibal' star and why it is called so? The scientists at the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chil...28 Feb, 2024, 11.14 PM IST
- Agostini, Krausz and L’Huillier bag Physics Nobel for study of electron dynamics in matterPierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L’Huillier have been awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics for their experimental methods in gen...03 Oct, 2023, 04.33 PM IST
- Preparing mission to study the Sun through Aditya-L1 mission: ISRO ChairmanThe Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is readying its first dedicated polarimetry mission, the X-ray Polarimeter Satellite (XPoSat)...20 Jul, 2023, 03.23 PM IST
- Building telescopes on the Moon could transform astronomy - and it's becoming an achievable goalThe Moon also offers opportunities for other types of astronomy as well. Astronomers have lots of experience with optical and infrared tele...19 Apr, 2023, 11.37 AM IST
- Zombie worlds: Five spooky planets orbiting dead starsStars with more than about eight times the mass of the Sun will typically burn through their fuel in less than 100 million years. Once fusi...29 Oct, 2022, 01.11 PM IST
- Earth-like Proxima b planet unlikely to host alien life: NASAThe lack of atmosphere leaves the surface exposed to harmful stellar radiation, reducing the planet's potential for habitability.01 Aug, 2017, 01.05 PM IST
- Proxima b unlikely to be habitable: NASAWashington, Aug 1 (IANS) Dampening hopes of finding alien life on the closest exoplanet ever discovered, a new NASA study says that the atm...01 Aug, 2017, 11.02 AM IST
- Scientists discover super-Earth that could harbour lifeLondon, April 20 (IANS) An international team of astronomers has discovered a so-called "super-Earth" that could contain liquid water, a si...20 Apr, 2017, 07.20 AM IST
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