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ASTROPHYSICS DISCOVERY
A simple astronomy program led two U.S. high school students to help discover four exoplanetsIn an inspiring display of youthful ingenuity, two American high school students have teamed up to publish a groundbreaking scientific pape...- NASA has discovered planets so strange they sound completely impossible: From worlds that rain molten glass to giant “marshmallow” planetsScientists are discovering strange new planets beyond our solar system. These worlds defy old ideas about how planets form and what they lo...
- Astronomers detect erratic deep-space radio signal repeating every 36 minutes for eight days, then it suddenly ‘switched off’Astronomers have found a strange object in our galaxy. It sent radio signals every 36 minutes for eight days. Then it stopped. This object,...
- Scientists hunt for origins of the mysterious 'sun goddess' particleScientists have new insights into the Amaterasu particle, one of the strongest ever detected. Initial observations suggested it came from a...
- 2,000-year-old ‘guest star’ mystery from 185 AD solved by NASA X-ray studyAncient Chinese astronomers saw a bright guest star in 185 AD. This supernova remnant, RCW 86, was unusually large. New research reveals th...
- Who Sent the Space Signal? The Magnetar Mystery ExplainedA powerful, fleeting flash of energy, a fast radio burst, was detected originating from within our Milky Way galaxy in April 2020. This eve...
- Quote of the day by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson: 'We are stardust brought to life, then empowered by the universe to figure itself out...'Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson’s quote of the day reflects on humanity’s cosmic origins and its role in understanding the universe. Dra...
- Meet Dr. Nikku Madhusudhan, the Indian-origin scientist who found potential life beyond EarthIndian-British Professor Nikku Madhusudhan, a leading exoplanetary scientist at Cambridge, has made groundbreaking discoveries using the Ja...
- Saturn moon number jumps to 274 with discovery of 128 new potato-shape moons — but now astronomers have a unique problem to solveScientists have discovered over 100 new moons orbiting Saturn, raising its total to 274. These small rocky moons likely resulted from cosmi...
- 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...
- Bengaluru: Discovery of a new star challenges existing ideas of star formationScientists at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics in Bengaluru have discovered a rare carbon-enhanced metal-poor (CEMP) star that suggests...
- 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.
- 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...
- 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...
- Jayant Narlikar gives analogy to know gravitational wave impactCongratulating the Indian scientists who formed a part of the international team, Naralikar said detection of the gravitational waves is a ...
- Oldest stars in universe found near Milky Way centreAstronomers have discovered what they believe to be the oldest stars ever seen, dating from before the Milky Way Galaxy formed, when the un...
- NASA discovers new 'Star Wars' planet orbiting two starsNASA's Kepler mission has discovered a new planet orbiting two stars and located within its host stars' "habitable zone".
- One of the most distant planets discoveredA remote gas planet about 13,000 light-years away has been discovered by scientists using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
- Fastest unbound star in our galaxy foundUS708 is believed to have once been part of a double-star solar system, which also included a massive white dwarf star.
- NASA's Kepler mission discovers 'super-Earth'The discovery was confirmed with measurements taken by the HARPS-North spectrograph of the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo in the Canary Islan...
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