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Just after facing embarrassment at the hands of its minister Bhaskar Jadhav for organising a lavish wedding for his...

22 Feb 2013 12:54 PM IST

Astronomers measure Milky Way with radio waves.

Astronomers measure Milky Way with radio waves

Astronomers say they hope to measure additional points around the galaxy to produce a map the first of its kind over...

23 Oct 2017 7:59 AM IST

New NASA research is helping to refine our understanding of candidate planets beyond our solar system that might support life. (Photo: NASA)

New NASA Study Improves Search for Habitable Worlds

The new work will help astronomers allocate scarce observing time to the most promising candidates for habitability.

20 Oct 2017 11:47 AM IST

A rendering of a neutron star merger.

Astronomers witness huge cosmic crash, find origins of gold

Thousands of astronomers found the aftermath of the merger in the sky.

17 Oct 2017 9:55 AM IST

Astronomers estimate that an interstellar asteroid similar to Oumuamua passes through the inner solar system about once per year. (Photo: NASA)

First Interstellar visitor from solar system dazzles scientists

New data reveal the interstellar interloper to be a rocky, cigar-shaped object with a somewhat reddish hue.

30 Nov 2017 1:43 PM IST

The planet is believed to border the so-called habitable zone. (Photo: AP)

Close new Earth-size world, where year lasts under 10 days

At a distance of 11 light-years, Ross 128 b is the second-closest planet to be detected yet outside our solar system.

16 Nov 2017 11:54 AM IST

Astronomers could detect a more bizarre system: a pair of black holes going around each other! (Photo: AFP)

There's nothing absolute about time

As the shrinking star approaches the state of a black hole, its environment encounters stronger effect of its...

28 Sept 2017 6:12 AM IST

This illustration provided by Dan Durda shows the exoplanet Kepler-1625b with a hypothesized moon. On October 4, 2018, two Columbia University researchers reported their results that the potential exomoon would be the size of Neptune or Uranus. The exoplanet, about 8,000 light-years away, is as big as Jupiter. (Dan Durda via AP)

Have astronomers found 1st moon outside our solar system?

Two Columbia University researchers presented their tantalising evidence for a moon.

4 Oct 2018 9:38 AM IST

The photo provided by the European Southern Observatory ESO taken from the SPHERE instrument on ESOs Very Large Telescope is the first clear image of a planet caught in the very act of formation around the dwarf star PDS 70. The planet stands clearly out, visible as a bright point to the right of the centre of the image, which is blacked out by the coronagraph mask used to block the blinding light of the central star. (ESO via AP)

Astronomers report first image of baby planet being formed

Scientists said the planet appears as a bright spot in the snapshot taken using the ESO's very large Telescope in Chile.

2 July 2018 8:18 PM IST

The image reveals the black hole at the center of Messier 87, a massive galaxy in the nearby Virgo galaxy cluster. (Image: tweeted by @ESO)

Astronomers unveil first ever image of black hole

This black hole resides about 54 million light-years from Earth.

10 April 2019 7:29 PM IST

Stephen Hawking said he was particularly concerned about Mr Trumps environment policy.

Stephen Hawking: His laboratory was the universe'

Hawking, who died at his home in Cambridge, England, on March 14 at age 76, became the public face of scientific genius.

15 March 2018 8:32 AM IST

The scientists viewed the galaxy, called MACS1149-JD1, as it existed roughly 550 million years after the Big Bang, which gave rise to the universe about 13.8 billion years ago. (Photo: NASA)

Oxygen presence in distant galaxy sheds light on early universe

Astronomers provides insight into star formation in perhaps the most distant galaxy ever observed.

17 May 2018 8:41 PM IST