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From giant star to your necklace: Indian-origin NASA scientist finds a billion-year-old alien connection to goldA groundbreaking study led by Anirudh Patel suggests that magnetars—rare, highly magnetic neutron stars—played a key role in the formation ...
Study finds how new technology enhances gravitational-wave detectionA team of physicists led by Jonathan Richardson of the University of California, Riverside, demonstrated how new optical technology can ext...
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...
Listen closely! Scientists transforming data into sound to unravel the secrets of universeData sonification is the process of converting data into sound.
New source of gravitational waves detected by scientistsGravitational waves are produced when celestial objects collide and the ensuing energy creates ripples in the fabric of space-time which ca...
China successfully launches two satellites for gravitational wave detectionChina on Thursday successfully launched two satellites for the detection of gravitational waves into planned orbit from the Xichang Satelli...
Energy in a blink: How powerful are gamma ray bursts?Astronomers recently discovered the brightest infrared light ever seen from a short gamma ray burst.
Having struck gold with gravitational waves, LIGO now hopes to observe supernovaGoal for the next run is to be 40% more sensitive, by 2020 we should be detecting tens of binary neutron stars, said LIGO Executive Directo...
- Observation of two neutron stars merger 'breakthrough of the year'
Washington, Dec 22 (IANS) The first observations of a merger between two faraway neutron stars, a violent celestial event that generated ti...
- NASA to launch scientific balloon to study rare cosmic particles
Washington, Dec 7 (IANS) NASA plans to launch on December 10 a balloon-borne instrument to collect information on cosmic rays, high-energy ...
India played a key role in big neutron bashThe detection of gravitational waves has produced a burst of activity around the world have increased investment in gravitational astronomy.
- Diwali gift from scientists: Cosmic clues to gold's origin
Kolkata/New Delhi, Oct 17 (IANS) Celebrating Dhanteras? Have you ever wondered where did the gold in your jewellery come from? A cosmic coo...
- Gravitational waves from neutron stars' merger just the beginning
Washington, Oct 17 (IANS) In yet another interstellar feat, scientists at the LIGO detectors and the world over detected the first "ripples...
To innovate, we need people who think differently: Dr Frederick J Raab, LIGO LaboratoryWe expect to complete construction of the observatory infrastructure in the early part of the next decade and to be observing by the middle...
- NASA observatory detects mysterious cosmic explosion
Washington, April 1 (IANS) A mysterious flash of X-rays probably resulting from a "completely new type of cataclysmic event" in space has b...
- 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...
- Some neutron stars may continuously emit gravitational waves
Mumbai, Dec 15 (IANS) A study by Indian researchers suggests that a population of neutron stars can generate gravitational waves continuous...