A billion-year secret: How Lunar ice could turn the Moon into a Space ‘gas station', provide fuel for Mars tripScientists have confirmed lunar polar ice has been accumulating for 1.5 billion years. This ancient ice, scattered across different regions...
18 Apr, 2026, 12.44 PM IST
Comet 3I/ATLAS gushed a greenhouse gas 80 times more powerful than CO₂ at warming Earth’s atmosphere as it passed the SunInterstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, the third of its kind, is revealing its composition as it heads back into deep space. Scientists detected incr...
18 Apr, 2026, 09.36 AM IST
3I/Atlas’s anti-tail ‘flipped’ as it nears Earth? Avi Loeb claims the interstellar comet contains something not seen in any other comet seems unaffected by the Sun’s radiation3I/Atlas’s anti-tail ‘flipped’: Interstellar comet 3I/Atlas is baffling scientists with its 'flipped' anti-tail, a behavior astrophysicist ...
11 Dec, 2025, 01.51 PM IST
Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS stuns scientists again: New images reveal giant jet blasting toward the Sun. Is it a threat to Earth?A rare interstellar comet, 3I/ATLAS, is approaching its closest point to the Sun on October 30. Scientists are excited to study this alien ...
24 Oct, 2025, 01.45 PM IST
Comet 3I/ATLAS’ predecessors, 1I/ʻOumuamua, and 2I/Borisov: a comparison of the only 3 interstellar objects which passed our Solar SystemComparing the three confirmed interstellar objects: 1I/ʻOumuamua, 2I/Borisov, and 3I/ATLAS. Each offers unique insights into shape, composi...
07 Oct, 2025, 12.59 PM IST
3I/ATLAS Alien Spacecraft or Interstellar Comet: Scientists and social media debate on anomalies, origins and alien technology3I/ATLAS alien spacecraft or interstellar comet continues to raise questions. NASA and astronomers describe its unusual features, while soc...
05 Sep, 2025, 07.34 PM IST
Alien Spacecraft or Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Biggest Revelation: See what NASA has foundAlien spacecraft or interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS biggest revelation came when NASA’s SPHEREx telescope detected a carbon dioxide coma and wa...
05 Sep, 2025, 06.27 PM IST
What happens when comets get close to sun? New findings from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope on 3I/ATLAS interstellar comet reveals truthNASA's James Webb Space Telescope studied interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. Observations showed high carbon dioxide levels in the comet's coma. ...
27 Aug, 2025, 02.30 PM IST
Ice volcano and horns: ‘Devil Comet’ approaching, when to catch its spectacular display in the skyPrepare for a celestial wonder as the enormous "Devil Comet," famous for its ice volcano and characteristic "horns," approaches Earth. Alth...
30 Oct, 2023, 11.27 PM IST
What is a comet, where does it come from, why does it have long streaming tail?The nucleus is at the center of the comet, from where dust and ice stretch and they get illuminated when the sunlight falls on them. This i...
08 Sep, 2023, 09.03 PM IST
Comets are often found in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter: Here’s whyComets have been found hiding in rubbles of asteroids.
08 Jan, 2023, 11.24 AM IST
Hubble spots strange binary asteroid with comet-like featuresAsteroids and comets are believed to be ancient remnants of the earliest years of the formation of our solar system more than four billion ...
21 Sep, 2017, 12.27 PM IST
Building blocks of life may have originated from cometsThey propose the first realistic scenario for the formation of this key compound, which had never been detected in meteorites or cometary i...
10 Apr, 2016, 03.20 PM IST
Water ice found on surface of comet 67PResearchers have identified two large patches of water ice on the surface of comet 67P, perhaps the most studied comet in history.
18 Jan, 2016, 02.08 PM IST
Mysterious pits on 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet are actually enormous sinkholesThe sinkholes were recently discovered on 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko by a team of researchers at the University of Maryland.
02 Jul, 2015, 03.37 PM IST
Comet dust discovered first time on Earth's surfaceUntil recently, the only way scientists could collect comet dust without going to space has been by flying research planes high in the stra...
10 Dec, 2014, 03.10 PM IST
Comet trailer: You watched Mangalyaan, now prepare for another celestial journeyScientists believe that comets may have been the first solids to condense out of the solar nebula from which the solar system was born.
11 Nov, 2014, 12.23 PM IST