James Webb Space Telescope captures stunning ultra deep field image, revealing the universe’s earliest galaxies in infraredThe James Webb Space Telescope revisited Hubble's Ultra Deep Field, capturing infrared images revealing thousands of distant galaxies. JWST...
05 Aug, 2025, 08.17 PM IST
NASA’s next big mission: A cutting-edge telescope is launching soon — Here’s what SPHEREx will exploreSPHEREx, NASA's latest space telescope, was initially set to launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in late February. But the mission has b...
01 Mar, 2025, 12.13 AM IST
NASA’s new telescope is more powerful than James Webb: Here’s what it could reveal about the Big Bang and the universeNASA prepares to launch SPHEREx, a groundbreaking telescope surpassing James Webb's capabilities in certain aspects. With a modest $488 mil...
03 Feb, 2025, 08.17 PM IST
CWISE J1249+3621: A mysterious object hurtling at 1 million miles per hour leaves astronomers in shockTom Bickle, an astronomy student in Southampton, discovered a hypervelocity object moving at a million miles per hour. The object, possibly...
22 Aug, 2024, 12.45 PM IST
NASA tracks mysterious object exiting the Milky WayAmateur astronomers part of NASA’s Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project identified CWISE J1249, a fast-moving object exiting the Milky Way, us...
18 Aug, 2024, 06.03 PM IST
Meet Dr. Hashima Hasan, the Lucknow genius behind NASA's epic James Webb Space telescope!Embark on the cosmic odyssey of Dr. Hashima Hasan, a visionary Indian scientist integral to NASA's groundbreaking James Webb Space Telescop...
12 Jan, 2024, 02.03 PM IST
World's largest digital sky survey issues biggest-ever astronomical data releaseThis second release contains over 1.6 petabytes of data, making it the largest volume of astronomical information ever released.
29 Jan, 2019, 12.34 PM IST
Scientists discover most distant super massive black holeFor black holes to become so large in the early universe, astronomers speculate there must have been special conditions to allow rapid grow...
07 Dec, 2017, 01.46 PM IST
- Astronomers spot elusive giant black hole couples
Washington, Oct 4 (IANS) Astronomers including one of Indian-origin have identified five pairs of supermassive black holes, each containing...
04 Oct, 2017, 11.52 AM IST
- Citizen scientists discover brown dwarf 100 light years away
New York, June 4 (IANS) Scientists have discovered a brown dwarf -- sometimes called "failed stars" -- a little more than 100 light years a...
04 Jun, 2017, 04.05 PM IST
Scientists find oldest-known planetary diskAstronomers believe they have found the oldest known planet-forming disk -- a 45-million-year-old ring of gas and dust that orbits around a...
22 Oct, 2016, 03.18 PM IST
New NASA telescope to help unlock secrets of universeBy blocking the light of the host star, the Coronagraph Instrument will enable detailed measurements of the chemical makeup of planetary at...
19 Feb, 2016, 01.58 PM IST
Giant galaxy cluster discovered 8.5 billion light-years awayTo find how these clusters evolve over time and what they looked like billions of years ago, astronomers looked back in time to our youthfu...
04 Nov, 2015, 03.30 PM IST
NASA scientists discover most luminous galaxy in universeThe galaxy belongs to a new class of objects recently discovered by NASA's WISE, nicknamed extremely luminous infrared galaxies, or ELIRGs.
22 May, 2015, 12.38 PM IST
China's moon rover back on track after facing mechanical issuesChina's moon rover, presumed dead after encountering mechanical problems on the lunar surface, has begun carrying out exploration tasks
14 Mar, 2014, 05.28 PM IST
China's lunar probe observes stars, explores moonThese findings will help scientists to understand the terrain, geological structure, material composition and soil formation of the Moon.
18 Jan, 2014, 05.24 PM IST
- Chandrayaan to be unveiled today
India’s first unmanned mission to the Moon, Chandrayaan 1, will be unveiled by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) on Thursday.
18 Sep, 2008, 01.42 PM IST