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Quote of the day by Stephen Hawking: 'I believe alien life is quite common in the universe, although intelligent life is less so. Some say it has yet to appear on planet Earth.' Life lessons on happiness, intelligence and human nature by theoretical physicistQuote of the day by Stephen Hawking highlights the possibility of alien life and the rarity of intelligence. The quote connects science, cu...- Largest known spinning structure discovered 140 million light-years from Earth, galaxies rotate in sync across a massive cosmic filamentAstronomers have found a colossal spinning structure in space. Galaxies within this formation appear to spin together with a massive cosmic...
- The 1977 Wow! Signal: Space’s most famous mystery could finally be explainedAstronomers continue to track puzzling cosmic signals, from the 1977 Wow! Signal to new phenomena like ASKAP J1832–0911 and FRB 20220610A. ...
- Jayant Vishnu Narlikar: The great astrophysicist believed it’s essential to have voices who question mainstream dogmaIn 1995, Fred Hoyle honored Jayant Narlikar, acknowledging his significant contributions to astronomy, particularly the Hoyle-Narlikar theo...
- Jayant Narlikar: The man who sifted through stardustJayant Narlikar, a renowned Indian scientist, passed away. He was famous for his work in cosmology. Narlikar was also known for his science...
- Jayant Narlikar passes away at 87, who was the celebrated astrophysicist, Padma Vibhushan awardee?Jayant Vishnu Narlikar, a distinguished astrophysicist and science communicator, has died at 87. Globally recognized for his cosmology cont...
- Meet Indian-origin scientist Dr Nikku Madhusudhan, who is leading the search for life on distant exoplanetsA team led by Indian-origin astrophysicist Dr Nikku Madhusudhan has detected potential signs of life on K2-18b, a distant exoplanet 120 lig...
- India's SARAS telescope gives clues to first stars, galaxies of universeThe Shaped Antenna measurement of the background Radio Spectrum 3 (SARAS) telescope -- indigenously designed and built at RRI -- was deploy...
- Professor Somak Raychaudhury appointed Vice-Chancellor of Ashoka UniversityPramath Raj Sinha, Chairman, Board of Trustees, said “Professor Raychaudhury brings stellar academic stature and strong administrative expe...
- U.R. Rao: Space scientist par excellence (Obituary)Bengaluru, July 24 (IANS) Udupi Ramachandra Rao, who passed away here on Monday, was an Indian space scientist par excellence who headed th...
- Meet the Indian astrophysicists who discovered the Saraswati SuperclusterAmong the major challenges in working in this field in India is the lack of large-scale experimental facilities for scientists.
- Astrosat, Chandra and Hubble jointly detect massive cosmic explosionMumbai, July 19 (IANS) Three space-based observatories Astrosat, Chandra, Hubble Space Telescope and a ground-based observatory HARPS have ...
- Atmosphere found around Earth-like planetScientists, including those from Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Germany, studied the planet known as GJ 1132b, which is 1.4-times th...
- Stars born in winds from supermassive black holes spottedLondon, March 28 (IANS) Astronomers have observed for the first time stars forming within powerful outflows of material blasted out from su...
- Star 30 times more massive than Sun discoveredThe star is still in the process of gathering material from its parent molecular cloud, and may be even more massive when it finally reache...
- Icy comet orbiting a Sun-like star throws light on development of Solar SystemUsing data from the Atacama Large Millimetre Array (ALMA) in Chile, the researchers, detected very low levels of carbon monoxide gas around...
- New map of rocky 'Super Earth' unveils lava worldThe latest findings tell us the planet has hot nights and significantly hotter days. This indicates the planet inefficiently transports hea...
- New dwarf galaxies discovered in orbit around Milky WayThe others could be either dwarf galaxies or globular clusters - objects with similar visible properties to dwarf galaxies, but not held to...
- NASA telescope sees rare blurring of black hole lightA compact source of X-rays that sits near the black hole, called the corona, has moved closer to the black hole over a period of just days.
- Google's 'Star Droid' to help mobile phone users study night skiesGoogle is preparing to launch a mobile phone application called Star Droid that can help amateur astronomers identify stars and planets.
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