On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...

Astronomers tracking mysterious fast radio bursts (FRBs) stumbled upon an unexpected cosmic puzzle. A burst was detected from ...

A newly-discovered asteroid about 100 metres wide and on a potential collision course with Earth has activated international planetary defence teams ...

Venus appears low in the evening sky, guiding us to Saturn. Jupiter makes an attractive sight below the Hyades and Mars ...

The discovery was made possible using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, operated by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) ...

NASA’s SPHEREx space observatory will provide astronomers with a big-picture view of the cosmos like none before.

NASA's SPHEREx observatory undergoes testing at BAE Systems in Boulder, Colorado, in August 2024. Launching no earlier than Feb. 27 ...

The study analyzed the circumstellar disks of a pair of stars, learning about how planets are formed from some unexpected ...

Collaboration has achieved the highest-resolution Earth-based observations to date, detecting light at 345 GHz from the centers of distant galaxies. This breakthrough marks the first time the EHT has ...

Nasa says the asteroid is capable of 'localised destruction, though the chances of it hitting Earth are liable to reduce.

It's actually good news that NASA spotted a sizable asteroid with a (small) chance of hitting Earth in 2032. It means our ...

The observatory, opened in 1968, stands between vast swathes of forestland and habitations on Tiruvannamalai-Tirupattur border. Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi named it after astronomer Vainu Bappu in ...