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Astronomers Are Creating Stars With Lasers, and the Reason Might Lead to New WorldsEarth's atmosphere blurs telescope images. Astronomers now create artificial stars using lasers. These laser guide stars help telescopes co...
Astronomers Can Make Stars on Demand, and the Reason Is Surprisingly CleverAstronomers are now creating 'artificial stars' using powerful lasers to overcome Earth's atmospheric distortions that blur telescope image...
Uranus Is Glowing, And It’s Telling Us Something ImportantJames Webb Space Telescope has captured stunning images of Uranus's auroras, revealing details of its unusual magnetic environment. These i...
The biggest explosion since the Big Bang; Star ripped apart by a Black Hole unleashes history’s most powerful and brightest known explosionAstronomers have spotted a new type of cosmic explosion. These are called Extreme Nuclear Transients or ENTs. These events occur when stars...
Did Sun's UV radiation cause Neptune clouds to vanish? Will it affect Earth? Know in detailsThe Hubble Space Telescope observed a significant reduction in Neptune's cloud cover. Researchers discovered that solar UV radiation influe...
NASA's new finding: 126 rare exoplanets, some capable of supporting life. Pics hereA new catalog featuring 126 exoplanets discovered through NASA's TESS and the Keck Observatory has been released, revealing diverse planet ...
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!
On Saturn's giant moon Titan, James Webb Space Telescope finds cloudsClouds have been discovered on one of the solar system's most intriguing moons, according to the James Webb Space Telescope’s images.
- Oldest ever detected supernova happened 10.5 billion years ago
London, Feb 20 (IANS) An international team of astronomers has discovered the oldest supernova ever detected -- a huge cosmic explosion tha...
Bizarre star that refuses to die discoveredSupernovae, the explosions of stars, have been observed in the thousands and in all cases they marked the death of a star.
- Astronomers discover bizarre star that won't die
New York, Nov 9 (IANS) An international team of astronomers has made a bizarre discovery -- a star that refuses to stop shining despite exp...
Over 100 new potential planets spottedAstronomers released the largest-ever compilation of exoplanet-detecting observations made using a technique called the radial velocity met...
NASA's Kepler mission discovers 100 new planetsAmong the confirmed is a planetary system comprising four promising planets that could be rocky. These four planets are orbiting the M dwar...
NASA's Kepler probe spots youngest exoplanet everThe planet, K2-33b, is slightly larger than Neptune and whips tightly around its star every five days. It is one of the very few newborn pl...
Vast cluster of young galaxies spotted in early universeThe newly discovered "proto-cluster" of galaxies, observed when the universe was only 1.7 billion years old is one of the most massive stru...
Astronomers spot most massive galaxy cluster everThe cluster, named "IDCS 1426", is the most massive cluster of galaxies yet discovered in the first four billion years after the Big Bang.
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...
Distant Uranus-sized exoplanet discoveredWith a technique called gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a Uranus-sized exoplanet orbiting far from its central star.
Astronomers discover most distant galaxy everThe exceptionally luminous galaxy, EGS-zs8-1, was originally identified based on its particular colours in images from NASA's Hubble and Sp...
Three super-Earths orbiting nearby star discoveredThe team discovered the new planets by detecting the wobble of the star HD 7924 as the planets orbited and pulled on the star gravitational...