Astronomers may have found Milky Way's faintest satellite galaxy
Using a 8.2-meter telescope on the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii, an international team of researchers has found what could be the faintest dwarf satellite galaxy of our Milky Way.
Nov 23, 2016, 06:18 AM IST
Astronomers map cosmic web through peculiar radio burst
A brief burst of radiation that travelled at least a billion light years through the psce to reach an Australian radio telescope contains the detailed information, say scientists.
Nov 18, 2016, 15:34 PM IST
Supermoon: Look up the sky tonight as the moon appears 'brightest' in 69 years!
When the moon is full as it makes its closest pass to Earth it is known as a supermoon.
Nov 14, 2016, 11:26 AM IST
NASA explains why November 14 supermoon is especially 'super'! (Watch video)
Also called November's full moon, Monday's supermoon will be no ordinary sight as it will be the closest full moon to Earth since 1948.
Nov 11, 2016, 11:36 AM IST
A new 'supermoon' to adorn the sky next Monday
Weather permitting, the phenomenon should appear at its most impressive at 1352 GMT, when it will be at its fullest just as night falls over Asia, astronomers said.
Nov 10, 2016, 10:24 AM IST
Brazilian astronomers discover 2 new planets
The two new planets, dubbed "super Neptune" and "super Earth", are the first to be discovered by Brazilian astronomers since the discovery in 2015 of a planet similar to Jupiter, according to Brazil's G1 news website on Friday.
Nov 05, 2016, 13:01 PM IST
Universe far away from expanding at accelerating rate, says study
Challenging a standard cosmological concept, a team of researchers led by an Indian-origin scientist has found that the universe may not actually be expanding at an accelerating pace as was previously believed.
Oct 29, 2016, 09:40 AM IST
Scientists find oldest-known planetary disk
Astronomers believe they have found the oldest known planet-forming disk -- a 45-million-year-old ring of gas and dust that orbits around a young star.
NASA's Hubble finds ten times more galaxies than previously thought
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories reveals that our universe contains 10 times more galaxies than previously thought.
Oct 13, 2016, 23:14 PM IST
Discovered – Astronomers find 24 new isolated 'Hot Earth' exoplanets!
Hot Earths are Earth-sized exoplanets that exist close to their stars, making them unlikely to support life.
Oct 13, 2016, 11:58 AM IST
Astronomers spot most distant newborn galaxy cluster ever
Astronomers have created a new record by spotting the most distant galaxy cluster ever utilising data from NASAs Chandra X-ray observatory and other telescopes.
Aug 31, 2016, 11:57 AM IST
Astronomers find a 'dark' Milky Way
An international team of astronomers has found a massive galaxy -- about the size of the Milky Way -- that consists almost entirely of dark matter.
Minute fraction of your suntan comes from beyond our galaxy
When you lie on the beach, your skin comes in contact with a minute fraction of radiation from outside our galaxy, say researchers.
Aug 13, 2016, 22:16 PM IST
NASA's Kepler watches stellar dancers in Pleiades cluster!
The US space agency NASA has released a beautiful image of the Pleiades cluster of stars which was seen through the eyes of WISE, or its Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer.
Aug 13, 2016, 22:09 PM IST
White dwarf found lashing red dwarf in space
Astronomers have discovered a new type of exotic binary star system, in which a rapidly spinning white dwarf star is lashing the companion red dwarf star with high-energy particles, causing the entire system to pulse dramatically every 1.97 minutes with radiation ranging from the ultraviolet to radio.
Jul 29, 2016, 00:48 AM IST
Universe crowded with black holes predicted
If a team of astronomers are right, then the future gravitational wave detectors are going to be busy as a beaver.
Jun 24, 2016, 00:17 AM IST
Extra-terrestrials will take at least 1,500 years to reach Earth, claim astronomers
A team of researchers from Cornell University made this assumption by deconstructing the Fermi paradox and paring it with the mediocrity principle into a fresh equation.
Jun 18, 2016, 20:07 PM IST
Astronomers find 'hot Jupiters' more common in star clusters
A team astronomers found that planets known as 'hot Jupiters' are more common in a star cluster in the constellation of Cancer than around stars outside clusters.
Jun 18, 2016, 00:20 AM IST
Astronomers discover small asteroid playing 'leap frog' with Earth - Watch
The US space agency NASA's astronomers have discovered a small asteroid that is circling the Earth as part of its orbit around the sun.
Jun 17, 2016, 00:15 AM IST
Astronomers discover largest planet orbiting two suns
Astronomers using the US Kepler Space Telescope said on Monday they have found the largest planet yet discovered that orbits a pair of binary stars.
