Shouted ‘Quit India’ as a schoolboy; studied Milky way galaxy through Hindi poem: This Indian scientist, inspired by Gandhi, later built two of the world's most powerful radio telescopesIndependence day 2026: Built two of the world's most powerful radio telescopes with limited resources and designs no one had attempted befo...
13 Aug, 2026, 05.48 PM IST
Indian-origin astronomer wins UK's Royal Astronomical Society Gold MedalIndian-origin astronomer Shrinivas Kulkarni received the Royal Astronomical Society Gold Medal. He is recognized for groundbreaking work in...
12 Jan, 2026, 04.24 PM IST
NASA and AstroSat capture explosive eruptions from stellar remnants near massive black holeAn international team of astronomers, including experts from Pune’s IUCAA, has made significant strides in understanding black hole-star dy...
11 Oct, 2024, 01.27 PM IST
AstroSat, Nasa capture black hole eruption stillsIndia's AstroSat and NASA's observatories have recorded dramatic eruptions from stellar debris around a massive black hole, providing astro...
10 Oct, 2024, 11.23 PM IST
India's AstroSat and NASA's Space observatories capture dramatic eruptions from stellar wreckage around a massive black holeIndian and American astronomers have observed a rare event where a massive black hole is tearing apart a star and using the debris to pumme...
10 Oct, 2024, 11.20 PM IST
Astronomers unveil 34 new giant radio sources discovered using GMRTA team led by Indian radio astronomers reported discovering 34 new giant radio sources. The findings, made through the TIFR GMRT Sky Survey...
01 Aug, 2024, 07.29 PM IST
Bengaluru: Discovery of a new star challenges existing ideas of star formationScientists at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics in Bengaluru have discovered a rare carbon-enhanced metal-poor (CEMP) star that suggests...
14 Aug, 2023, 12.28 PM IST
School students in India discover 18 new asteroidsOver the last two years, 150 students from all around India participated in this two month long campaign to find asteroids, making this the...
28 Feb, 2021, 04.18 PM IST
Meet the citizen astronomers who chase starsDespite many hurdles, India has a thriving citizen astronomy community — extremely tech savvy and motivated, says Vishal Upendran, a PhD sc...
08 Dec, 2019, 10.30 AM IST
Chennai engineer's Chandrayaan-2 discovery boosts citizen science in IndiaThe crash site of Chandrayaan-2's Vikram lander was discovered thanks to the availability of data from the American space agency for common...
03 Dec, 2019, 04.43 PM IST
Indian telescope discovers most distant radio galaxy everThe galaxy is perceived as it looked when the universe was only a billion years old, according to the study appearing in the journal Monthl...
09 Aug, 2018, 01.07 PM IST
Scientists at Mount Abu used Indian-Made instruments to detect planet 600 light years awayIn the universe of never-ending stars, planets and galaxies, India has made a place for itself by discovering a sub-Saturn or super-Neptune...
12 Jun, 2018, 01.35 PM IST
Indian scientists discover 'Saraswati' -- a supercluster of galaxiesThis is one of the largest known structures in the neighbourhood of the universe, 4,000 million light-years away from Earth and roughly mor...
14 Jul, 2017, 11.58 AM IST
- India, US must collaborate more on space research: NASA scientist
New Delhi, Jan 21 (IANS) India and the US should collaborate more on space research programmes, a prominent scientist from the US space age...
21 Jan, 2017, 07.25 PM IST
India-US to sign MoU for building LIGO projectIndia and US will sign a Memorandum of Understanding tomorrow for building a state-of-the-art Laser Interferometer Gravitational - wave Obs...
30 Mar, 2016, 11.16 PM IST
Government gives in-principle approval for LIGO-India projectGovernment gave an "in-principle approval" for establishing a state-of-the-art Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory project.
17 Feb, 2016, 05.31 PM IST
Astronomers discover a massive planet with four starsAstronomers using a telescope have discovered a massive planet residing in a four star system 136 light-years away from Earth.
05 Mar, 2015, 03.19 PM IST