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The allocation for outreach programmes by the planetarium saw a dip after 2022. From Rs 29-31 lakh, it went down to Rs 16 ...
An international team, including astronomers from Keele University, has performed a unique cosmic test to measure the mass of ...
Have you ever looked up at the night sky and felt a surge of awe, as if the universe itself was whispering secrets just for .
"Theories involving substantial formation of stars prior to or together with the black hole formation and growth are very ...
Six years ago, a Dutch-led telescope on the Chinese Chang’e-4 demonstrated that it is possible to do radio astronomy from ...
Nestled atop Mars Hill in Flagstaff, Lowell Observatory has been a cornerstone of astronomical discovery since 1894 — and it’s still inspiring curiosity today.
Located billions of light-years away, the "Cosmic Owl" is a pair of colliding ring galaxies spotted by the JWST. It's also an ...
The widely anticipated first images collected by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory have been released, offering nothing short of ...
3I/ATLAS, also known as C/2025 N1, is a comet from interstellar space, meaning it originated in another star system and entered our solar system on a one-time flyby. It was first spotted by the ATLAS ...
Around seven asteroids or comets are thought to hit Saturn every year, but we have never spotted one in the act. Now, it ...
Bechtol and his fellow scientists hope they can learn more about the universe than all of scientific progress has allowed in ...
A quiet, glowing gas cloud has been hiding in plain sight not far from Earth. For decades, astronomers have predicted that some of the galaxy’s molecular gas — the fuel for star birth — might be ...