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 – …

First galaxy sans dark matter challenges longstanding belief about universe

DF2 was expected to have about 100 times more dark matter than regular matter. Instead, researchers found almost none

Relevance of Srinivasa Ramanujan: the man who knew infinity

December 22 is the birth anniversary of Ramanujan and observed as National Mathematics Day

13.5 billion-year-old star discovered by scientists

The star is around 9 billion years older than the sun and was immediately formed after the Big Bang

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

We've found a new family of stars in the Milky Way that could help us work out how galaxies formed

A new discovery can help determine where all the stars in the universe's galaxies actually come from

The Earth has not one, but three moons

New research confirms a 1961 discovery of two new moons, made up of extremely tiny dust particles and located at the same distance as the Earth&…

Another gravitational wave detected, second time in four months

With two strong gravitational waves in four months, scientists can now work towards mapping the population of black holes in our universe

What international scientists have to say on the detection of gravitational waves

The consensus is that the discovery will reveal to us a completely different side of the universe

नासा ने की पुष्टि, अनुमान से भी तेज हो रहा ब्रह्मांड का फैलाव

नासा के वैज्ञानिकों की खोज के मुताबिक ब्रह्मांड का विस्…

The mystery behind radio signals from deep space

Many theories revolve around the origin and nature of fast radio bursts coming to us from far points in the universe. Down To Earth breaks down …

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 …

Gravitational waves detection: Will this signal a new era in understanding the universe?

Detection of gravitational waves can explain why there was a sudden enlargement of the universe, called inflation, in the wee hours of the …

First ‘direct evidence’ of Big Bang discovered

The discovery offers insight into some basic questions: Why do we exist? How did the universe begin?

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

Trio win physics Nobel for studying universe's expansion

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