Space probe LISA Pathfinder lifts off

LISA Pathfinder will hunt for gravitational waves which were first proposed by Albert Einstein in his General Theory of Relativity

Life beyond Earth

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One of the world's largest radio telescope being set up near Pune will look for incontrovertible evidence for the Big Bang theory on the origin …

Brightest object in night sky not a star: BlueWalker 3 satellite for cellular broadband interferes with astronomical studies

The trend towards the launch of increasingly larger and brighter satellites continues to grow

Major floods on Mars? China’s rover finds evidence

Zhurong rover's first radar imager results analysed two interesting underground layers

The highest view

Clearer images of cosmos available through Google Sky

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Discovery of two new giant radio galaxies offers fresh insights into the universe

They are about 62 times the size of the Milky Way but are fainter than some others the same size

India gets robotic telescope to keep an eye on dynamic cosmos

A new telescope will be commissionined at the Indian Astronomical Observatory at Hanle in Ladakh as part of an international network designed to …

A demotion for Pluto

Astronomy's orginal rebel

Unearthing a duplicate

Discovery of a new planet raises hopes of finding planets similar to the Earth

Particles of significance

The newfound character of neutrinos is revolutionary

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Do space laws need to be modified?

Laws on outer space should ensure that

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‘WTF?’: Newly discovered ghostly circles in the sky can’t be explained by current theories, and astronomers are excited

WTF? is a picture of a ghostly circle of radio emission, hanging out in space like a cosmic smoke-ring. It had not been seen before, and …

Did the Cow lead scientists to birth of a black hole?

A rare celestial explosion, nicknamed the Cow, has scientists scrambling for an explanation

India's Chandrayaan programme is "ambitious"

A moon rush is hotting up, with India, China and Japan devising substantial space exploration programmes to compete with the big players -- the …

A new awakening

When India launches its maiden Aditya-1 Mission, it will further illuminate our understanding of the sun

Universally changing

A recent research throws light on the possibility that the laws of physics were different in the past

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In a world first, NASA’s DART mission is about to smash into an asteroid. What will we learn?

The experiment could be used to plan planetary defence missions 

Astronomers used machine learning to mine data from South Africa’s MeerKAT telescope: What they found

MeerKAT is an array of 64 large antenna dishes that uses radio signals from space to study the evolution of the universe