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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- The Best Science Breakthroughs Have One Thing in Common: Tools That Measure Without FailingPrecise measurements, not just imagination, drive scientific breakthroughs. From Galileo's telescope revealing Jupiter's moons to LIGO dete...07 Feb, 2026, 06.57 PM IST
- Big Bang Thought of the Day by Nobel Laureate Peter Higgs, “The Big Bang made the universe explode into existence. The Higgs boson made it stay.” How Peter Higgs’ “God Particle” settled decades of competing universe theoriesBig Bang Thought of the Day by Nobel Laureate Peter Higgs, “The Big Bang made the universe explode into existence. The Higgs boson made it ...06 Feb, 2026, 11.58 PM IST
- Dark matter and dark energy: What the universe is made of, and what we still don’t knowModern cosmology has precisely measured the universe's properties, yet dark matter and dark energy remain profound mysteries. While dark ma...27 Aug, 2025, 12.02 AM IST
- How a physicist's Greek alphabet joke overshadowed his student’s legacy on the origins of the universeIn 1948, a young physicist made a groundbreaking discovery about the origins of the universe—only to have his moment eclipsed by a joke. Ra...18 May, 2025, 03.43 PM IST
- The ghost particle’s secret: Physicists edge close to unlocking mystery of elusive neutrino’s massThe KATRIN experiment in Germany has set a new upper limit on the neutrino’s mass at just 0.45 electron volts, marking a major leap in unde...16 Apr, 2025, 01.19 AM IST
- 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...16 Feb, 2025, 11.52 AM IST
- What is Quipu: Superstructure over 1.3 billion light-years long and holds almost 200000000000000000 solar massesScientists have officially given a name to the largest solar structure in the known universe. Astronomers have found the largest structure ...13 Feb, 2025, 07.46 PM IST
- New study reveals rapid spin of Sagittarius A*, the galaxy's center black holeRecent research unveiled that Sagittarius A*, the colossal black hole at the galaxy's core, spins rapidly, reshaping space-time around it. ...29 Nov, 2023, 08.18 PM IST
- Origin story of our universe: James Webb Space Telescope's surprising discoveries prompt rethinking of cosmosThe James Webb Space Telescope has provided data that challenges the standard model of cosmology, particularly in relation to the formation...10 Sep, 2023, 11.00 AM IST
- The multiverse: how we're tackling the challenges facing the theoryIt is important to state from the start that the existence (or not) of the multiverse is a consequence of our present understanding of the ...25 Mar, 2023, 12.06 PM IST
- Is there more dark matter in the universe than visible matter? New theory of gravity provides cluesThere are many other failures of the standard cosmological model that researchers investigated in this review08 Jul, 2022, 07.20 PM IST
- Nobel Prizes and coronavirus: Favour slow, basic science over quick fix remediesScience builds upon previous work, with thinkers "standing on the shoulders of giants," as Isaac Newton put it, and it starts with basic re...03 Oct, 2020, 03.53 PM IST
- Gravitational waves from neutron stars' merger just the beginningWashington, Oct 17 (IANS) In yet another interstellar feat, scientists at the LIGO detectors and the world over detected the first "ripples...17 Oct, 2017, 08.17 AM IST
- 'Dark energy measured with map of 1.2 million galaxies'These new measurements were carried out by the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) programme of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-III.15 Jul, 2016, 12.52 PM IST
- How Albert Einstein engaged with India & why some Indian scientists are reimagining his notion of gravityEinstein was a great fan of Gandhi. However he critiqued Gandhi’s weapon of satyagraha as being practical only under “ideal conditions” and...29 Mar, 2015, 10.36 AM IST
- CERN may not have discovered elusive Higgs Boson: studyMany calculations indicate that the particle discovered last year in the CERN particle accelerator in Switzerland was indeed the famous Hig...09 Nov, 2014, 12.56 PM IST
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