In 1995, astronomers found a planet circling a Sun-like star, and the solar system stopped looking uniqueIn 1995, scientists made a revolutionary find with the discovery of 51 Pegasi b, a massive exoplanet in a tight orbit around its star. This...
15 Jun, 2026, 04.29 PM IST
On this planet, clouds emerge every morning and disappear by night: James Webb Space Telescope reveals daily cloud cycle on WASP-94A bOn this planet, clouds emerge every morning and disappear by night as astronomers study the giant exoplanet WASP-94A b using the James Webb...
03 Jun, 2026, 02.15 AM IST
A high school senior used NASA Kepler data to uncover where more Earth-like planets may still be hidingA high school student has made a significant discovery using old space data. Ana Humphrey re-examined information from the Kepler Space Tel...
20 May, 2026, 04.28 PM IST
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...
12 May, 2026, 07.02 PM IST
350 years later Newton's Law of Gravity just got put to the ultimate test — here's how it didNewton’s Law of Gravity just survived its biggest cosmic test. Scientists studied nearly 686,000 galaxies spread across 7 billion light-yea...
11 May, 2026, 06.18 PM IST
Astronomers detect record-breaking ‘Space Laser’ from merging galaxies 8 billion light-years awayAstronomers have detected the most distant and brightest "space laser," a megamaser, originating from a galactic collision when the univers...
14 Apr, 2026, 09.28 AM IST
Strange ‘space laser’ from early universe detected on Earth: Scientists explain why this signal should not existAstronomers have detected an unusually powerful “space laser” signal from about 8 billion light-years away using the MeerKAT radio telescop...
13 Apr, 2026, 06.14 PM IST
Astronomers discover massive Invisible dark matter object that is million times larger than the sun’s massScientists have found out a massive dark matter that is entirely invisible to the naked eye, as per the study in Nature Astronomy. It has a...
14 Oct, 2025, 12.36 AM IST
James Webb Space Telescope Shocks Scientists by Capturing 44 Stars from the Distant UniverseThe James Webb Space Telescope has made an incredible discovery, spotting a record-breaking collection of stars in a far-flung galaxy, 6.5 ...
07 Jan, 2025, 10.48 PM IST
A secret alien message: A powerful radio signal from the edge of the universe has stunned astronomersAstronomers have detected the most distant fast radio burst (FRB) ever recorded, an 8-billion-year-old pulse that has been traveling for mo...
25 Oct, 2023, 11.28 AM IST
NASA's James Webb Telescope discovers distant and active supermassive black holeNASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted the most distant-known active supermassive black hole, located in galaxy CEERS 1019. Recently...
11 Jul, 2023, 12.49 PM IST
Indian telescope discovers most distant radio galaxy everThe galaxy is perceived as it looked when the universe was only a billion years old, according to the study appearing in the journal Monthl...
09 Aug, 2018, 01.07 PM IST
- First stars that formed after Big Bang identified
London, May 17 (IANS) Japanese scientists have identified some of the first stars to form in the Universe just 250 million years after the ...
17 May, 2018, 10.27 AM IST
- Hubble spots farthest individual star ever seen
Washington, April 3 (IANS) Setting a new distance record, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered an enormous blue ...
03 Apr, 2018, 09.57 AM IST
- Astronomers capture most distant star ever seen
Washington, April 2 (IANS) American astronomers have captured the most distant normal star ever observed, some 9 billion light years from E...
02 Apr, 2018, 11.17 PM 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
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.
15 Apr, 2015, 01.26 PM IST