India investing billions of dollars in research ecosystem: PM ModiPrime Minister Modi highlighted India's significant investments in its research ecosystem and its commitment to international collaboration...
12 Aug, 2025, 07.11 PM IST
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...
20 May, 2025, 10.46 AM IST
NASA's Chandra telescope reveals stunning details of Milky Way's super star clusterIn a groundbreaking study, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has revealed new insights into Westerlund 1, the largest and closest 'super' st...
16 Jun, 2024, 01.13 PM IST
Isro’s XPoSat to lift off today to study X-rays' sourcesThe satellite will seek to understand the sources of x-rays and study blackholes. The satellite is set for launch on board the Polar Satell...
01 Jan, 2024, 06.01 AM IST
ISRO completes launch rehearsal of Aditya-L1 solar missionISRO has completed the launch rehearsal and internal checks for its Aditya-L1 mission to study the Sun. The spacecraft, scheduled to be lau...
30 Aug, 2023, 06.48 PM IST
ISRO sets date for maiden sun voyage Aditya-L1 for Sept 2The spacecraft that will be designed for the solar mission will help to receive remote observations of the solar corona and in situ observa...
28 Aug, 2023, 04.48 PM IST
ISRO sets Sept 2 as tentative date for launch of Aditya-L1 solar missionISRO is preparing to launch the Aditya-L1 spacecraft on September 2. The Aditya-L1 mission, aimed at studying the Sun from an orbit around ...
28 Aug, 2023, 10.41 AM IST
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...
10 Nov, 2022, 06.44 PM IST
ISRO plans to launch India’s second space observatoryThe AstroSat-2 mission, which will help in observing distant celestial bodies, is meant to further the study of astronomy and astrophysics.
19 Feb, 2018, 11.42 AM IST
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.
23 Jul, 2017, 12.01 AM 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
- LIGO's detection of gravitational waves: Listening to the heavens became a reality (2016 in retrospect)
Kolkata, Dec 24 (IANS) In 2016, science fiction and reality collided when LIGO opened up our sixth sense to understand the universe and set...
24 Dec, 2016, 12.00 PM IST
Infosys Foundation announces Rs6.5 crore endowment to the Inter-University Center of Astronomy and AstrophysicsThe IUCAA is an autonomous institution set up by the UGC to promote the nucleation and growth of active groups in astronomy and astrophysic...
10 Nov, 2016, 01.49 PM IST
Milky Way core blazed furiously 6 million years agoThe centre of the Milky Way galaxy is currently a quiet place where a supermassive black hole slumbers, only occasionally slurping small si...
30 Aug, 2016, 03.45 PM IST
New images shows earliest stages of planet formationScientists have captured new images of a young star, located about 450 light-years away from Earth, which show the very earliest stages in ...
18 Mar, 2016, 07.25 PM IST
- Sino-India S&T cooperation set for August launch
A key element of the cooperation could be the NLST, world's largest such facility that India plans to set up in collaboration with Germany ...
09 Jun, 2013, 10.39 AM IST
India can have a shot at galactic glory if it pulls off its Mars mission on timeChina successfully launched its first woman into space last week. India, too, can have a shot at galactic glory if it pulls off its Mars mi...
24 Jun, 2012, 11.32 AM IST