Hawaii to begin construction of mega-telescope on July 15

Thirty Meter Telescope got delayed over planned site of construction atop Mauna Kea, a sacred mountain to native Hawaiians — already home …

Water vapour discovered on potentially ‘habitable’ planet

Using Hubble Space Telescope, scientists also detected the presence of hydrogen and helium in K2-18b's atmosphere

Indian space telescope Astrosat completes one year

The ambitious mission, which is expected to last for five years, opens up new vistas for Indian astronomy

Indian engineers develop software for world’s largest telescope

The software has been developed by ThoughtWorks Technologies based in Pune

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 – …

New space telescope to create a 3D X-ray map of Universe

The Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma telescope aims to detect up to 3 mn supermassive black holes — many of which will be new to science — and …

Milky Way’s supermassive black hole exploded 3.5 million years ago: Study

The blast took place 63 million years after an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs; and when our earliest ancestors — the Australopithecines &…

Broken cable damages Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico

The Arecibo Observatory is one of the largest radio telescopes in the world. It features prominently in the last part of the 1995 movie GoldenEye

Scientists discover a new source of neutrinos in space – opening up another window into the universe

A giant detector at the South Pole has discovered that a “blazar”, a galaxy with a supermassive black hole at its centre, also …

Hubble spots possible water plumes on Jupiter's moon Europa

The observation increases the possibility that missions to Europa may be able to sample Europa’s ocean without having to drill through …

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 …

AstroSat discovers new group of stars in globular cluster NGC 2808

The team was able to identify over 2,000 individual stars in images taken through various ultraviolet filters

New gamma ray telescope will better observe explosion of stars

The four-metre telescope in Ladakh will be able to operate in bright environment like twilight hours and moon-lit nights, unlike traditional ones …

Smallest-known galaxy containing a ‘supermassive’ black hole found

The black hole, according to the international space agency, is five times the mass of the one at the center of Milky Way galaxy

Discovered: More than 300,000 new galaxies

200 astronomers from 18 countries analyse results of low frequency telescope in radio survey of northern hemisphere

How did Uranus end up on its side? We've been finding out

Unlike all the other planets, which spin roughly upright with their spin axes at close to right angles to their orbits around the sun, Uranus is …

New physics needed to explain Universe’s expansion rate: NASA

Scientists are certain about veracity of a long-standing discrepancy in the value of the rate of expansion known as Hubble Constant

Five Earth-like planets discovered by NASA

NASA’s Hubble telescope reveals stunning image of Pillars of Creation

Infrared and visible light gives bigger view, sharper quality to the iconic structure

NASA’s NuSTAR clicks first solar image

Picture is the most sensitive solar portrait ever taken in high-energy X-rays.

Most Earth-like planet yet spotted by NASA's Kepler

NASA scientists call it Earth cousin and not twin because it circles a star smaller and dimmer than our sun

Trio win physics Nobel for studying universe's expansion

The laureates studied several dozen exploding stars, called supernovae and made the discovery

Galaxy caught in self-destructive mode

Finding throws new light on the evolution and ageing of galaxies