In 2003, NASA launched a 34-inch infrared telescope called Spitzer. For 17 years, it looked through cosmic dust and revealed a hidden universeNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope ended its mission in 2020 after sixteen years. Its infrared observations pierced cosmic dust, revealing hidd...
27 Aug, 2026, 04.58 PM IST
NASA's new Roman Space Telescope set to launch this Sunday will help scientists study dark matter and dark energy across billions of galaxies, unraveling the deepest mysteries of the universeNASA Roman Space Telescope launch: NASA's Roman Space Telescope launchNASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is set to launch on August 3...
27 Aug, 2026, 01.01 PM IST
In 1990, Hubble Space Telescope was launched, James Webb Space Telescope came in 2021, check NASA's new $4 billion project Nancy Grace Roman Space TelescopeRoman will conduct one of the most comprehensive searches ever for exoplanets. It is expected to discover thousands of new ones and provide...
26 Aug, 2026, 02.00 AM IST
In 1917, Einstein called it his 'greatest blunder', but the idea he discarded returned decades later to become central to modern cosmologyEinstein’s cosmological constant was initially introduced to create a static universe but was later abandoned. Astronomers subsequently dis...
19 Aug, 2026, 12.09 PM IST
Origin of the Universe: Did you know the cosmos started from a single point? Another surprise — it is still expanding faster than the speed of lightAbout 13.8 billion years ago, the origin of the universe began with the Big Bang. Scientists say all space, time, matter, and energy emerge...
06 Mar, 2026, 05.40 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
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
Jaw-Dropping Image of Ringed Uranus Captured by NASA's Webb TelescopeAfter the Webb Telescope captured new images of Uranus, NASA tweeted, "Uranus has never looked better. Really." Check it out!
07 Apr, 2023, 03.27 PM IST
Hubble finds ghost light among galaxies stretches far back in timeIntracluster light was first detected in the Coma cluster of galaxies in 1951 by Fritz Zwicky, who reported that one of his most interestin...
05 Jan, 2023, 08.04 PM IST
Chinese astronauts set up new lab on space stationAstronauts entered the new lab module of China's space station for the first time
25 Jul, 2022, 01.50 PM IST
NASA's new space telescope nears destination in solar orbitThe thrusters will be activated by mission control engineers at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, and the ground team wil...
25 Jan, 2022, 07.23 AM IST
- Google Doodle honours Georges Lemaitre's Big Bang theory
New Delhi, July 17 (IANS) Google on Tuesday dedicated an animated Doodle to Belgian cosmologist Georges Lemaitre who in 1927 propounded the...
17 Jul, 2018, 11.52 AM 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
- Universe not expanding at accelerating rate: Study
London, Oct 25 (IANS) Challenging a standard cosmological concept, a team of researchers led by an Indian-origin scientist has found that t...
25 Oct, 2016, 11.17 AM IST
If aliens call, do not answer, warns Stephen HawkingHawking has said that one day we might receive a signal back from a planet like Gliese 832c.
25 Sep, 2016, 09.44 AM IST
Pluto's moons exhibit the strangest behavior that scientists have ever seenThere are plenty of odd-shaped moons in the solar system such as the moons of Mars (Phobos and Deimos) or Saturn's sponge-shaped moon Hyper...
05 Jun, 2015, 03.54 PM IST
NASA finds Pluto's moons tumbling in absolute chaosTheir variable gravitational field sends the moons tumbling erratically. The effect is strengthened by the football-like shape of the moons.
04 Jun, 2015, 12.53 PM IST