Bright skies named colour of the year: Here’s why there’s so much more to the heavens than blue

Here is what to look out for while contemplating bright skies and immersing yourself in skywatching 

Scientists are using new satellite tech to find glow-in-the-dark milky seas of maritime lore

Compared with the old technology, viewing Day/Night Band imagery is like putting on glasses for the first time

India’s first robotic telescope opens its eyes to the universe

The fully robotic optical research telescope is designed to capture cosmic events occurring in timescales much shorter than light years – …

Joker in the pack of stars

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Sign language from outer space

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Big and mysterious

The current theory of planet formation has just been proved wrong. It is time astrophysicists got back to the drawing- board

James Webb Space Telescope: The most advanced telescope yet

Scientists had to invent 10 new technologies for making this a reality

How scientists solved a centuries-old mystery

UK scientists discovered a rare form of star collision

Crop at the top

Perched on top

The core of a star

Celestial cousins

Ambitious project

Safe crash

New heavenly bodies

Space for life!

Scientists claim to have found the first evidence of life from outer space

Pyramid times

Like ours

Astronomers discover an Earth-like planetary system

Awash with possibilities

Boom boom boom — like a heartbeat: Scientists pick up mysterious fast radio bursts

Properties of the signal suggest that the source lives in a very turbulent environment inside its galaxy

How visionary scientist Bernie Fanaroff put African astronomy on the map

He made a breakthrough discovery about radio galaxies during his PhD in eary 1970s

Stormwater harvesting in parks and open spaces: Managing Delhi’s water woes

Water-sensitive urban design and planning approach, which mimics the natural water cycle, can help fix water systems in the city

Study of ancient eclipses can unveil past climate trends

Climate scientists can infer the average sea level that may have happened many lakhs of years ago from measurements of radioisotopes derived from …

Research shows universe's first life was born on carbon planets

This work shows that even stars with a tiny fraction of the carbon in our solar system can host planets

Cosmic radiations originate in earth's galaxy

Latest satellite observations provide an answer to the long-standing query: What is the source of cosmic rays -- high energy radiations -- that …