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Mysterious rogue planet with no Sun detected flying through spaceAstronomers have detected a newly discovered rogue planet navigating alone through the Milky Way, signifying the first time scientists have...
Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS a cosmic time capsule? Spain University reconstructs 10-million-year trajectory — DetailsAstronomers at the Center for Research in Information and Communication Technologies (CITIC) at the University of A Coruña, Spain, have con...
3I/ATLAS came from mysterious frontier of Early Milky Way? Scientists study interstellar comet's origin, track trajectory, travel speed, age3I/ATLAS may have come from the mysterious frontier of the early Milky Way. Scientists tracked its trajectory for millions of years and sug...
3I/ATLAS comet mystery solved? Scientists trace object to Milky way’s mysterious past, unlocking cosmic secretsInterstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS, the third known object from outside our solar system, is being studied for its age and origin. New research su...
The biggest explosion since the Big Bang; Star ripped apart by a Black Hole unleashes history’s most powerful and brightest known explosionAstronomers have spotted a new type of cosmic explosion. These are called Extreme Nuclear Transients or ENTs. These events occur when stars...
'Not so fast': NASA shares a big update on 'end of the world' doomsday predictionNASA, in collaboration with the European Space Agency, has updated its long-standing prediction about a future collision between the Milky ...
Scientists discover mysterious black hole roaming alone in the Milky Way. Here's why it is so surprisingAstronomers have detected a lone black hole drifting through the Milky Way—an unprecedented discovery made possible by gravitational lensin...
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...
Astronomers find the brightest object of known universe that eats 'just over a Sun per day', and its still growingAstronomers have discovered the brightest black hole in the known universe, named J0529-4351, using the European Southern Observatory’s Ver...
Discovery of closest Black Holes to Earth unveiled in Hyades Star Cluster — DetailsA recently published paper in the journal "Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society" has revealed the presence of a cluster of bla...
Third of Milky Way's most common planets could harbour life: StudyA study based on latest telescope data and published by the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences showed that one-third o...
ESA’s Gaia mission discovers 2 closest-ever black holes to earth; Details hereScientists have discovered the closest black hole, BH1, to Earth in our cosmic backyard using the Gaia satellite. This discovery is signifi...
Scientists find huge black hole in Earth's backyardThe other stellar-mass black holes were revealed by their energising interactions with a companion star, despite the fact that there are pr...
Rare 'superflares' from Sun could disrupt Earth's communicationsAstronomers probing the edges of the Milky Way have in recent years observed superflares -- huge bursts of energy from stars that can be se...
- Water-rich planets outside our solar system common: Study
Washington, Aug 19 (IANS) Water is likely to be a major component of those exoplanets which are between two to four times the size of Earth...
Fastest growing black hole of the universe discoveredThe astronomers have looked back more than 12 billion years to the early dark ages of the universe, when this supermassive black hole was e...
- Hubble precisely measures distance to globular star cluster
Washington, April 5 (IANS) Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have for the first time precisely measured the distance to one o...
- New Horizons' next flyby target may have a moon
Washington, Dec 13 (IANS) The next flyby target of NASA's New Horizons mission which is an icy world billion kilometres past Pluto might ha...
- Gaia probe pins down precise positions of over a billion stars
London, Sep 14 (IANS) On its way to assembling the most detailed 3D map ever made of our Milky Way galaxy, European Space Agency's Gaia pro...
Loose fibres on Gaia telescope make it harder to map Milky WayFibres were spotted on Gaia before launch, but cutting them off was considered too risky, because that could allow small particles to enter...