New research suggests giant cosmic structures could be rotating across billions of light-yearsAstronomers have found that massive cosmic filaments, stretching hundreds of millions of light-years, are slowly rotating. These structures...
07 May, 2026, 04.31 PM IST
Nancy Roman Grace Space Telescope ready with 100x Hubble field of view as NASA completes assembly ahead of launchNASA has completed the assembly of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope at its Goddard facility, marking a major milestone ahead of its pl...
22 Apr, 2026, 01.08 PM IST
- India's tablet PC market up 2% YoY,with Samsung leading the chart, Apple supplies drop 2%
India's tablet market expanded by 2 percent in 2025. Samsung secured the top spot with increased market share. The market saw a significant...
26 Mar, 2026, 07.23 PM IST
Intergalactic predators? James Webb data hints supermassive black holes may act like cosmic killers, preventing star birth in distant galaxiesNew research reveals that active supermassive black holes can suppress star formation in neighboring galaxies across vast intergalactic dis...
26 Feb, 2026, 11.58 AM IST
NASA Reveals a Brand-New Map of the Universe: How SPHEREx Will Chart the Cosmos Like Never BeforeNASA's new SPHEREx observatory has released its first all-sky cosmic map. This map uses 102 infrared wavelengths to reveal the universe in ...
14 Feb, 2026, 04.37 PM IST
First-ever cosmic duel caught: One galaxy blasted another in deep space battle 11 billion light-years awayAstronomers have observed a "cosmic joust" between two galaxies colliding at immense speed over 11 billion light-years away. The collision ...
25 May, 2025, 04.00 PM IST
Astronomers observe largest ever sample of galaxies up to over 12 billion light years away: StudyAn international team of astronomers, utilizing the James Webb Space Telescope, has identified nearly 1,700 galaxy groups in the COSMOS Web...
22 May, 2025, 02.52 PM IST
Remarkable phenomena in the Universe: Five galaxies collide at an astonishing speed of two million miles per hour to create a sonic boomA breathtaking galactic collision in Stephan's Quintet has been observed, in which five galaxies collide at two million mph, causing a powe...
27 Nov, 2024, 09.07 PM IST
McGill & IISc astronomers detect radio signal from atomic hydrogen in distant galaxy using GMRTThe astronomical distance over which such a signal has been picked up is the largest so far by a large margin. This is also the first confi...
16 Jan, 2023, 04.24 PM IST
- How supermassive black holes prevent star formation
London, Jan 10 (IANS) Scientists have found evidence that supermassive black holes prevent formation of stars in some smaller galaxies, in ...
10 Jan, 2018, 03.37 PM IST
- Astronomers find galaxies creating stars at furious pace
New York, May 25 (IANS) A team of astronomers has discovered a new kind of galaxies which, although extremely old -- formed less than a bil...
25 May, 2017, 03.25 PM IST
Our universe contains two trillion galaxies: StudyIt appears that when the universe was only a few billion years old there were ten times as many galaxies in a given volume of space as ther...
17 Jan, 2017, 01.42 PM IST
- Universe has 10 times more galaxies than previously thought
Washington, Oct 14 (IANS) There are at least 10 times more galaxies in the observable universe than previously thought, said astronomers.
14 Oct, 2016, 10.59 AM IST
Dead galaxies may be packed with dark matterGalaxies in a cluster roughly 300 million light years from Earth could contain 100 times more dark matter than visible matter
20 Jul, 2015, 03.27 PM IST
NASA scientists discover most luminous galaxy in universeThe galaxy belongs to a new class of objects recently discovered by NASA's WISE, nicknamed extremely luminous infrared galaxies, or ELIRGs.
22 May, 2015, 12.38 PM IST
Universe with realistic galaxies simulatedAstronomers have created a simulation of the universe with more realistic galaxies that are similar in mass, size and age to real ones.
31 Dec, 2014, 05.12 PM IST
- Student from Kolhapur wins NASA stipend
The 17-year-old son of a poor Dalit farmer in Maharashtra has been selected by the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) ...
18 May, 2008, 02.12 PM IST