Comet or alien spaceship? World's most powerful Hubble telescope captures stunning view of 3I/ATLAS traveling at 210,000 kmphComet 3I/ATLAS, a rare interstellar visitor, is racing through our Solar System at record speed, offering astronomers a rare chance to stud...
08 Aug, 2025, 08.34 AM IST
Researchers find 'strongest evidence' of life outside Solar System, say more data neededResearchers have detected hints of molecules, specifically dimethyl sulphide and dimethyl disulphide, on the exoplanet K2-18 b, potentially...
17 Apr, 2025, 05.14 PM 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
First picture of a black hole gets an AI makeoverThe fuzzy black hole was made more striking through an AI touch-up.
17 Apr, 2023, 07.07 PM IST
Webb Space Telescope spots early galaxies hidden from HubbleAstronomers said on Thursday that if the results are verified, this newly-discovered throng of stars would beat the most distant galaxy ide...
18 Nov, 2022, 06.40 PM IST
Astronomers use the upgraded GMRT to measure the gas mass of galaxies in the distant UniverseThe study resulted in a measurement of the average atomic gas content of star-forming galaxies located 4 billion light years away, when the...
24 Nov, 2019, 09.42 PM IST
- Hubble precisely measures distance to globular star cluster
Washington, April 5 (IANS) Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have for the first time precisely measured the distance to one o...
05 Apr, 2018, 10.52 AM IST
- Massive black holes might lurk on edge of Milky Way
New York, Oct 31 (IANS) The outskirts of spiral galaxies like our own could be crowded with colliding black holes of massive proportions, s...
31 Oct, 2017, 04.22 PM IST
- Proxima b unlikely to be habitable: NASA
Washington, 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
- NASA telescope hears stellar 'heartbeat'
Washington, Feb 15 (IANS) NASA said its Spitzer space telescope has detected unusual heartbeat-like vibrations in the outer shell of a star...
17 Feb, 2017, 12.28 AM IST
- 'Vampire' star caught in the act by Indian space observatory
Scientists say the smaller star, also called a "blue straggler", feeds off its companion star by sucking out its mass and energy, causing i...
29 Jan, 2017, 01.08 PM IST
- Technology used in Netflix, Google can help planetary research
Toronto, Dec 2 (IANS) Machine learning -- a powerful tool used for a variety of tasks in modern life, from fraud detection and sorting spam...
02 Dec, 2016, 03.15 PM IST
New images shows earliest stages of planet formationScientists have captured new images of a young star, located about 450 light-years away from Earth, which show the very earliest stages in ...
18 Mar, 2016, 07.25 PM IST
Sun can produce 'superflares' that may disrupt life on EarthSuperflares are thousands of times more powerful than those ever recorded on the Sun, and are frequently observed on some stars.
03 Dec, 2015, 12.50 PM IST
8690 kph winds discovered on exoplanetDiscovered on the exoplanet HD 189733b, researchers measured the velocities on the two sides of HD 189733b and found wind moving at over 8,...
15 Nov, 2015, 02.00 PM IST
New method to map cosmos in 3-DResearchers from UBC in Canada proposed the method which calculates cosmological distances using the bursts of energy also known as fast ra...
21 Sep, 2015, 01.38 PM IST
Sun's heliosphere dominated by two solar jets: NASAThe solar wind, in turn, creates a bubble called the heliosphere that extends far beyond the planets of the solar system.
04 Mar, 2015, 06.14 PM IST