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Indian scientists discover 28 new stars in Milky WayScientists at the Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES) have discovered 28 new variable stars in the Milky Way ga...
Asteroids may play key role in spreading life: StudyCalculations showed there may be as many as 10 trillion asteroid-sized objects carrying life, according to Idan Ginsburg, a postdoctoral sc...
- NASA's Hubble spots massive cluster of 10 billion-years-old stars
Washington, June 30 (IANS) NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected a stunning image of a huge collection of ageing stars, believed to be...
- Thousands of black holes may be hiding in Milky Way's centre
New York, April 5 (IANS) A team of US astrophysicists have discovered a dozen black holes gathered around Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) -- the su...
Heart of Milky Way may host thousands of black holes: studyTo detect black hole binaries then, researchers realised that they would need to look for the fainter, but steadier X-rays emitted when the...
- Milky Way stars kicked out by invading galaxies spotted
London, Feb 28 (IANS) An international team of astronomers has discovered evidence to show that some stars located in the Galactic halo sur...
- Bigger black holes turn off star formation in galaxies earlier
New York, Jan 2 (IANS) Researchers have found evidence that the mass of black holes in the centre of the galaxy determines how soon its sta...
- Infant stars found near Milky Way's supermassive black hole
New York, Nov 29 (IANS) In a surprise discovery, astronomers have spotted telltale signs of 11 low-mass stars forming perilously close -- w...
- Chinese space telescope to observe 'big eaters'
Beijing, May 29 (IANS) China's new space telescope will probe many mysteries of the universe, including the belching "big eaters" -- active...
Assam scientist leads breakthrough research on black holesThe Hubble Space Telescope probed the quasars' light for information on the speed of the gas and whether the gas is moving toward or away f...
Stephen Hawking plans to travel to space"My three children have brought me great joy - and I can tell you what will make me happy, to travel in space," the leading cosmologist and...
'Monster' blackholes hiding in cosmic backyard spottedBoth of the black holes are the central engines of what astronomers call "active galactic nuclei," a class of extremely bright objects that...
- Scientists spot two hidden 'monster' black holes
Washington, Jan 9 (IANS) Using data from NASA's NuSTAR (Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array), a team of researchers has detected two hidd...
Hubble spots galaxy hiding in the night sky, located over 110 million light-years awayWith surface brightnesses up to 250 times fainter than the night sky, these galaxies can be incredibly difficult to detect, researchers sai...
Hubble views a galactic mega-merger: NASAThe Hubble Space Telescope has viewed a galactic mega-merger - a product of a collision between two good-sized galaxies, which is slowly ev...
If Darth Vader trumps Donald in polls?The dark forces’ interest in the US polls cannot be ruled out any more, especially since a certain nascent theocratic empire is striking ba...
Scientists find out what happens when two same-size galaxies collidePreviously, astronomers thought that when two galaxies smash into each other their gas clouds get churned up and seed the birth of new star...
Milky at least 50 per cent larger than commonly estimated: StudyMilky Way is at least 50% than commonly estimated, according to a new study which found that the galactic disk is contoured into several co...
Dark matter present at the heart of Milky WayA new study demonstrates that large amounts of dark matter exist around us, and also between us and the Galactic centre.
- Virgin Galactic woos Indian space tourists
Space tourism is a reality which is all set to make its presence felt in India.