NASA Reveals a Brand-New Map of the Universe: How SPHEREx Will Chart the Cosmos Like Never BeforeNASA's new SPHEREx observatory has released its first all-sky cosmic map. This map uses 102 infrared wavelengths to reveal the universe in ...
14 Feb, 2026, 04.37 PM IST
Is the universe slowly rotating? Shocking new theory could solve the cosmic expansion mysteryA new study proposes that the universe may rotate at a nearly undetectable pace, offering a possible solution to the long-standing “Hubble ...
16 Apr, 2025, 11.39 PM IST
Astronomers spot the largest cosmic giant of its kind in the distant universeAstronomers have discovered an enormous radio jet stretching over 200,000 light-years from a quasar in the early universe, offering rare in...
23 Feb, 2025, 02.41 PM IST
What is Quipu: Superstructure over 1.3 billion light-years long and holds almost 200000000000000000 solar massesScientists have officially given a name to the largest solar structure in the known universe. Astronomers have found the largest structure ...
13 Feb, 2025, 07.46 PM IST
The Universe's Greatest Mystery: A substance that occupies 85% space yet remains invisibleDark matter, a mysterious and invisible form of matter, constitutes 85% of the total mass of the universe. Despite its prevalence, its comp...
06 Nov, 2023, 05.00 PM IST
The multiverse: how we're tackling the challenges facing the theoryIt is important to state from the start that the existence (or not) of the multiverse is a consequence of our present understanding of the ...
25 Mar, 2023, 12.06 PM IST
Google Doodle celebrates 124th birth anniversary of astronomer behind Big Bang Theory, Georges LemaîtreLemaître believed that the big bang was the beginning of time.
17 Jul, 2018, 11.15 AM IST
Gravitational waves used to measure age of universeA team of 1,314 scientists from around the world contributed to the detection of gravitational waves from a merging pair of binary neutron ...
09 Jan, 2018, 12.50 PM IST
Universe expanding faster than thought: StudyAstronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have made a measurement of how fast the Universe is expanding.
30 Jan, 2017, 12.53 PM IST
Theory that challenges Einstein's physics may soon be testedEinstein observed that the speed of light remains the same in any situation, and this meant that space and time could be different in diffe...
27 Nov, 2016, 02.59 PM IST
- Universe has no direction: Scientists
London, Sep 23 (IANS) Using data from the European Space Agency's Planck satellite, researchers have confirmed what cosmologists have assum...
23 Sep, 2016, 01.37 PM IST
Mysterious infrared light from space detected by ALMAAstronomers have detected the faintest millimetre-wave source ever observed using ALMA, the world's largest ground-based facility for obser...
11 Mar, 2016, 01.32 PM IST
Cosmic voids may contain 20% of universe's 'normal' matterResearchers from the University of Innsbruck in Austria suggest that galaxies make up only 1/500th of the volume of the universe.
28 Feb, 2016, 01.25 PM IST
Black hole spotted in glow of the Big BangAstronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have discovered a jet from very distant supermassive black hole being illuminated by old...
17 Feb, 2016, 12.34 PM IST
Indian astronomers spot rare giant radio galaxyThe newly discovered galaxy known by its scientific name 'J021659-044920' is the newest member of this elite group.
08 Nov, 2015, 05.04 PM IST
New dwarf galaxy signals presence of dark matterThe exact source of this high-energy light is uncertain at this point but it just might be a signal of dark matter lurking at the galaxy's ...
20 Aug, 2015, 05.15 PM IST
New proposed particle may help detect dark matterDespite compelling indirect evidence and considerable experimental effort, no one has managed to detect dark matter directly.
01 Feb, 2015, 02.10 PM IST