Celestial cousins

Ambitious project

Safe crash

New heavenly bodies

Like ours

Astronomers discover an Earth-like planetary system

Awash with possibilities

Earth's bigger cousin

Found 15 light years away

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 …

Fresh light illumines search for dark matter

New evidence has emerged for the existence of dark matter -- an invisible constituent of the universe that is believed to play a key role in the …

Surprise rays from a comet

First ever X -ray emission by a comet has excited several astrophysicists who are optimistic of bringing some more dark areas of the universe …

The light show

A satellite tracks outbound electrons from the Earth's poles to understand the northern lights

Cosmic killings

Zooming in on outer space

2016: the year in space and astronomy

Colliding black holes to exploding spacecraft, 2016 was an incredible year for astrophysics

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

Concern over gender bias in research, academic institutions on astronomy

The Working Group on Gender Equity presented results of its first survey on gender equity in the field of astronomy in India

Nobel Prize for physics awarded for gravitational waves detection

Scientists Rainer Weiss and Kip Thorne, together with Barry Barish, whose effort led to the discovery 100 years it was …

Magnetic streamers to decorate eclipsed sun, scientists predict

If the prediction comes true, it will mark a major scientific achievement and could facilitate forecasting of space weather in future

A second too long

The world has been adding an extra second at regular intervals to keep pace with the slowing Earth. Will the practice be stopped as the US says …

Stellar showbiz

Still a source of wonder for some, no great shakes for others, the recent total solar eclipse was a memorable spectacle