India embarks on a journey to expand its celestial horizons through investments in advanced telescopes and observatories. This strategic sh...

Astronomers have identified ASKAP J1832−091, a peculiar object in the Milky Way, emitting synchronized X-ray and radio waves every 44 minut...

Observational plans around an expensive and state-of-the-art space telescope launched just last year in September, has now taken a back sea...

The POLIX payload was activated in two stages by January 10, and initial scan observations were conducted around the Crab pulsar, the inten...

ISRO, the Indian Space Research Organisation, announced on Thursday that a payload on its recently-launched mission has successfully captur...

Launched on January 1, XPoSat carries two co-aligned instruments, POLarimeter Instrument in X-rays (POLIX) and X-ray SPECtroscopy and Timin...

The launch comes after the success of its Gaganyaan Test Vehicle D1 mission in October. The PSLV-C58 rocket, in its 60th mission, would car...

During its first observation period from approximately 12:00 to 22:00 UT on October 29, 2023, the High Energy L1 Orbiting X-ray Spectromete...

Although black holes does not have a surface, it is confined within an invisible boundary, called an event horizon, from within which nothi...

Relatively smaller black holes are exotic end states of massive stellar cores, said astronomers led by the Tata Institute of Fundamental Re...

Bengaluru, Nov 7 (IANS) India's multi-wavelength space telescope AstroSat had measured the X-ray polarisation of the Crab pulsar (star) in ...

Washington, Oct 14 (IANS) Scientists have found that small solar flare could help explain why the Sun's atmosphere, the corona, is so much ...

Washington, Feb 7 (IANS) Astronomers have detected a giant black hole that ripped apart a star and then gorged on its remains for an unusua...

"The satellite is scheduled for launch on board the launch vehicle PSLV C-30, on Sept 28 morning 10 am," Director, Public Relations, ISRO t...

High-energy x-rays found for five of the black holes confirmed that they had been hidden by dust and gas.

ASTROSAT, the first dedicated Indian astronomy mission aimed at studying distant celestial objects is now fully assembled, ISRO said.

A 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.