Astronomers detect erratic deep-space radio signal repeating every 36 minutes for eight days, then it suddenly ‘switched off’Astronomers have found a strange object in our galaxy. It sent radio signals every 36 minutes for eight days. Then it stopped. This object,...
08 May, 2026, 02.25 PM IST
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
2,000-year-old ‘guest star’ mystery from 185 AD solved by NASA X-ray studyAncient Chinese astronomers saw a bright guest star in 185 AD. This supernova remnant, RCW 86, was unusually large. New research reveals th...
25 Mar, 2026, 05.25 PM IST
How Artificial Intelligence Is Rewriting Planet HuntingAstronomers are now leveraging artificial intelligence to sift through vast amounts of exoplanet data, a task impossible for humans alone. ...
26 Feb, 2026, 03.36 PM IST
Indian-origin astronomer wins UK's Royal Astronomical Society Gold MedalIndian-origin astronomer Shrinivas Kulkarni received the Royal Astronomical Society Gold Medal. He is recognized for groundbreaking work in...
12 Jan, 2026, 04.24 PM IST
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...
27 Oct, 2025, 08.49 AM IST
Jayant Narlikar: The man who sifted through stardustJayant Narlikar, a renowned Indian scientist, passed away. He was famous for his work in cosmology. Narlikar was also known for his science...
20 May, 2025, 10.59 PM IST
A rare inter-stellar explosion that will be visible from the EarthNASA has issued a press note that the explosion of a star will be visible from the Earth. This once in a life time event will be visible to...
20 Jun, 2024, 12.25 AM IST
Shakti and Shiva: German Max Planck Institute identifies building blocks that created our galaxy, Milky WayAstronomers have discovered the earliest "building blocks" of the Milky Way galaxy, named 'Shakti' and 'Shiva', dating back 12-13 billion y...
22 Mar, 2024, 04.24 PM IST
Professor Somak Raychaudhury appointed Vice-Chancellor of Ashoka UniversityPramath Raj Sinha, Chairman, Board of Trustees, said “Professor Raychaudhury brings stellar academic stature and strong administrative expe...
10 Nov, 2022, 06.44 PM IST
Google dedicates doodle to James Webb Space Telescope, celebrates the deepest photo of the universe ever takenNASA on Tuesday shared the images of star formation taken from Webb’s telescope.
13 Jul, 2022, 12.42 PM IST
Team led by Indian scientists finds X-ray signature of boundary around black holesAlthough black holes does not have a surface, it is confined within an invisible boundary, called an event horizon, from within which nothi...
22 Sep, 2020, 06.16 PM IST
Indian, US satellites find black hole that spins near maximum possible ratesRelatively smaller black holes are exotic end states of massive stellar cores, said astronomers led by the Tata Institute of Fundamental Re...
01 Nov, 2018, 01.20 PM IST
Goan Jesuit finds Milky Way's long-lost siblingThis was recently discovered by a team of University of Michigan researchers led by Richard D’Souza from Pilerne.
29 Jul, 2018, 11.52 AM IST
New images shows earliest stages of planet formationScientists have captured new images of a young star, located about 450 light-years away from Earth, which show the very earliest stages in ...
18 Mar, 2016, 07.25 PM IST
TYC-2505-672-1: Longest-lasting stellar eclipse discoveredThe system sets a new record for both the longest duration stellar eclipse and the longest period between eclipses in a binary system.
21 Feb, 2016, 04.58 PM IST
Indian-American wins top US teaching awardIndo-American Meera Chandrasekhar has been named as the recipient of the 2014 Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching.
18 Jan, 2014, 09.57 AM IST