Supermassive black hole, 6,00,000 times the mass of Sun, is heading towards the Milky Way. When is the collision likely to happen?Astronomers have found a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud. This black hole is 600,000 times the mass of the Sun. The L...
14 Feb, 2025, 04.26 PM IST
What secrets do NASA's 25 stunning Chandra X-ray photos reveal? Here is all you need to knowNASA has shared 25 X-ray photos captured with Chandra with the public in observance of the observatory's 25 years of existence. These photo...
27 Jul, 2024, 06.20 PM IST
The Hidden Cosmos: Exploring the intriguing world of dark galaxiesResearchers have recently discovered dark galaxies, which are galaxies devoid of visible stars but filled with hydrogen gas. These galaxies...
11 Feb, 2024, 04.27 PM IST
Saving the Panama Canal will take years and cost billions, if it’s even possibleThe canal’s travails reflect how climate change is altering global trade flows. Drought created chokepoints last year on the Mississippi Ri...
03 Jan, 2024, 09.41 AM IST
Another NASA stunner from the Universe! James Webb Space Telescope captures newborn stars 'Tarantula Nebula'07 Sep, 2022, 03.14 PM IST
D-Street churns 90 multibaggers in first quarter of 2022 despite war, inflation worriesA general trend is that most of the multibaggers in the list are from smallcap space, where there is more room for them to grow. Among bett...
31 Mar, 2022, 05.35 PM IST
Nasa has announced two missions to Venus by 2030: Here's why that's excitingIn the latest announcement from Nasa's solar system exploration programme, two missions have been given the go-ahead - and they're both bou...
06 Jun, 2021, 11.29 AM IST
- Massive stars are abundant in nearby galaxy than thought
London, Jan 5 (IANS) Astronomers have discovered an "astonishing" overabundance of massive stars in a neighbouring galaxy, to our own Milky...
05 Jan, 2018, 12.12 PM IST
- 13% of sky covered by mysterious fast-moving gas, shows map
Sydney, Dec 5 (IANS) At least 13 per cent of the sky is covered by high-velocity clouds of gas moving at speeds of hundreds of kilometres p...
05 Dec, 2017, 04.17 PM IST
- NASA mission to study cosmic material between stars
Washington, March 26 (IANS) NASA has announced plans to launch a balloon-borne observatory to study the emissions from the cosmic material ...
26 Mar, 2017, 01.05 PM IST
- Bridge of stars connects two Milky Way satellite galaxies
London, Feb 8 (IANS) Two largest satellite galaxies of the Milky Way -- the enigmatic Magellanic Clouds -- appear to be connected by a brid...
08 Feb, 2017, 05.59 PM IST
- NASA telescope spots sizzling gamma-ray binary in space
Washington, Sep 30 (IANS) Using data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, scientists have found the first gamma-ray binary in anoth...
30 Sep, 2016, 10.10 AM IST
Growing evidence of volcanic activity on VenusStanding on the surface of Venus, your body would be crushed by the immense pressure and lead-melting heat, and dissolved by sulfuric acid ...
22 Jun, 2015, 01.43 PM IST
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...
11 Mar, 2015, 04.23 PM IST
Astronomers peek through supernova using radio telescopes in Australia and ChileThe supernova, was first seen in S Hemisphere in 1987 when a giant star suddenly exploded at edge of a dwarf galaxy called Large Magellanic...
11 Nov, 2014, 06.23 PM IST