Coming up in 2020: Guide to some of the best meteor showers this year promises

The year starts with a bang with the Quadrantids providing a treat for northern hemisphere viewers 

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 clinches 3rd position in International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics

India was placed jointly in the third position along with Singapore, behind Iran's official team (5 golds) and guest team (4 golds, 1 silver)

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 

New genealogy project allows astronomers to trace ‘ancestors’

The database provides information on more than 33,000 astronomers, their advisors and universities and the links to their dissertations

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

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

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

Caroline Herschel was the first female astronomer, but she still lacks name recognition two centuries later

Her story reflects not only the priorities of astronomy but also how credit is assigned in the field

Looking back toward cosmic dawn — astronomers confirm the faintest galaxy ever seen

The early universe was filled with a fog made up of hydrogen atoms until the first stars and galaxies burned it away

Always look up: Earth’s top 7 asteroid defences

If an asteroid threat emerged, Earth would need to be ready. Scientists are continually working to give the planet the best range of defensive …

The most powerful space telescope ever built will look back in time to the Dark Ages of the universe

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is scheduled to launch into orbit and usher in the next era of astronomy December 18, 2021

NASA crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid — photos show the last moments of the successful DART mission

Double Asteroid Redirection Test is meant to test one potential approach that could prevent an asteroid from colliding with Earth.

Hunting galaxies far, far away — here’s how anyone can explore the universe

In just our observable universe we estimate there are over 2 trillion galaxies!  

Mars early water may be trapped in its crust: Scientists

The new findings challenge the prevalent theory that water from the Red Planet escaped into space

Carl Sagan, the animal rights visionary

He was talking about global warming and humane treatment of animals before they became fashionable

What’s the mysterious light up above? A supermassive black hole ripping a star apart

Halfway across the universe, this is brightest and farthest tidal disruption event ever detected

Scientists find supermassive black hole moving within host galaxy

It can be two black holes in the process of merging or one in a binary system of black holes

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

‘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 …

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

Bullseye! NASA’s DART hits the mark, successfully alters asteroid path

Spacecraft hit Dimorphos in planetary defence test, shortened space rock's orbit time by 32 minutes

NASA offers insight on supernova that may have been alluded to in ‘Hamlet’

450-year-old supernova’s shockwave still apparent; was visible to humans on Earth in 1572  

A chunk of space rock may hold clues to origin of Earth

Materials like Ryugu space rock make up 5% of the planet’s mass, likely helped make planet habitable, finds study