An international team of astronomers, including experts from Pune’s IUCAA, has made significant strides in understanding black hole-star dy...

The Ministry of Science and Technology also made an offer to top scientists Arogyaswami J Paulraj and Prof. Jitendra Malik to take up colla...

Aditya L1, India's first space-based solar observatory has successfully reached an orbit around its intended destination: the Sun-Earth Lag...

A couple of students from the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, a student and engineer from the Centre of Excellence in Space Sciences, Kol...

Durgesh Tripathi and AN Ramaprakash, who have dedicated the past 10 years to develop the Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (SUIT), one of...

Among the major challenges in working in this field in India is the lack of large-scale experimental facilities for scientists.

This is one of the largest known structures in the neighbourhood of the universe, 4,000 million light-years away from Earth and roughly mor...

Kolkata/Bengaluru, Jan 17 (IANS) Veteran scientist C.V. Vishveshwara, known as a pioneer in black hole research in India, has died, researc...

The IUCAA is an autonomous institution set up by the UGC to promote the nucleation and growth of active groups in astronomy and astrophysic...

Aurangabad, Oct 4 (IANS) The Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) -- a giant facility to detect cosmic gravitational ...

A LIGO has been set up, to detect the gravitational waves. It is a system of two identical detectors carefully constructed to detect incred...

ISRO in collaboration with the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune, has set up an Astrosat Support Cell.

Its approval was expected after the tweet last week by Prime Minister Modi about building an advanced gravitation wave detector in the coun...

"In 1916, Einstein had thought that detection of these waves was extremely difficult, but technology has improved," said Dhurandhar.

Anil Kakodkar today congratulated the team of Indian scientists who contributed to the research on gravitational waves.

The Robo-AO project was co-developed about three years ago by the Caltech Optical Observatories and the the Inter-IUCAA in Pune.

TMT will be located just below the summit of Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaii, at an elevation of 4,050 - half the size of Mt Everest.