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Venus transit to `fine-tune search for other world

The scientists will be using the last Venus transit for a century, which will take place next week, ...

Three countries to host world`s biggest radio telescope

South Africa, Australia and New Zealand have decided to host the biggest radio telescope ever built ...

LOFAR captures images of colliding galaxy cluster

The International LOFAR Telescope has made the first images of galaxy cluster Abell 2256 in the freq...

3-telescope interferometry reveals how black holes are fuelled

The observation was led by Gerd Weigelt, a director of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy ...

NASA`s Spitzer detects light of alien `Super-Earth`

NASA`s Spitzer Space Telescope has detected light emanating from a "super-Earth" planet beyond our s...

How our time on Earth will end

Jupiter will be the only planet to survive this situation unscathed.

Soon, 3.2bln-pixel camera to give `deepest view of night sky ever seen`

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is being put together by the SLAC National Accelerator La...

Japan astronomers find most distant galaxy cluster

Japanese astronomers said today they had found a cluster of galaxies 12.72 billion light-years away ...

India to join project to build largest telescope

A budget of Rs 700 crore has been sanctioned to construct the world`s largest telescope.

Mysterious dark matter gets all the more elusive

The most accurate study till date of the motions of stars in the Milky Way has not found any evidenc...

China installs largest optical telescope in Antarctica

A Chinese expedition team to Antarctica has finished installing and testing the largest optical tele...

NASA releases image of star-forming region

NASA and the Space Telescope Science Institute have released a new image of 30 Doradus in celebratio...

Explore stars in the US from India using internet telescope

Students from nearly 80 Delhi schools will soon get an opportunity to explore the night skies in the...

Radio telescope ALMA opens its eye on Universe

ALMA, which is under construction, is currently using 16 large antennas to see wavelengths of light....

Dark heart of cosmic collision revealed

Observations from two of European Space Agency’s space telescopes have been combined to create a mul...

Dwarf galaxies may help reveal what `dark matter` really is

Nearly 80 percent of the matter in the universe is invisible to telescopes, yet its gravitational in...

S Africa, Australia in celestial spat for new telescope

South Africa and Australia are now squaring off in a new contest: to win the right to host the world...

Asteroid hurtles past Earth

Earth had a near miss from an 150-foot asteroid that was detected only two weeks ago, it was reveale...

Hubble captures dusty lanes in `UFO` Galaxy

Earth-orbiting Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a spiral galaxy - seen almost edge-on - that resem...

18th-century bone telescopes discovered

Ranging in length from roughly three to five inches, the telescopes -- discovered in Amsterdam, the ...

Astronomers get widest deep view of sky ever recorded

European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) VISTA telescope has captured a treasure trove of over 200 000 ...

Hubble captures detailed picture of Messier 9

Messier 9 is a roughly spherical swarm of stars that lies around 25 000 light-years from Earth.

NASA postpones launch of X-ray telescope

NASA has postponed the launch of a new X-ray telescope to allow more time to check an issue with the...

NASA’s Hubble discovers quasars acting as gravitational lenses

Quasars are among the brightest objects in the universe, far outshining the total starlight of their...

How teenage galaxies feed themselves

A new survey of carefully selected galaxies has focussed on their teenage years — roughly the period...

Distant young galaxy cluster `discovered`

Planetary scientists claim to have discovered a distant young galaxy cluster located 10.5 billion li...

Most distant ‘galaxy city’ discovered

The astronomers used FourStar, a new and powerful near-infrared camera on the 6.5m Magellan Baade Te...

NASA`s Spitzer finds solid buckyballs in space

In the latest discovery, scientists using Spitzer detected tiny specks of matter, or particles, cons...

Fermi telescope unveils gamma-ray bursts’ highest power side

The Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope has recorded the highest energy portion of the gamma-ray bursts,...

A rare black hole that survived galaxy destruction

Astronomers have spotted a rare mid-weight black hole some 290 million light-years from Earth.

‘Light echoes’ of exploding star detected

Astronomers are watching the astronomical equivalent of an instant replay of a powerful outburst fro...

Hubble’s image offers clear view of barred spiral

Most spiral galaxies in the Universe have a bar structure in their centre. Now, new image taken by H...

World’s largest virtual mirror created

Astronomers have created the world’s largest virtual optical telescope by linking four telescopes in...

Hubble zooms in on brightest ever galaxy

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a uniquely close-up view of the brightest distant “magnif...

China, India to jump forward with Hawaii telescope

China and India are catapulting to the forefront of astronomy research with their decision to join a...

Ladakh to get world`s largest solar telescope

The Jammu and Kashmir government has assured all help and co-operation to the union Department of Sc...

Most distant galaxy produces 100 suns per year

Astronomers have discovered that one of the most distant galaxies known is churning out stars at a s...

Soon, telescope to look at cosmos from the Moon

A telescope could soon be able to make celestial observations from the surface of moon for the first...

Telescope for astro research to be set up in AP

The research telescope will be a powerful one to facilitate experts to work on a variety of observat...

Sun`s future `revealed`

Sun`s outer layer will expand and cool down, so it`ll look red, and the core will contract and becom...

NASA vows $8.8 bn space telescope on track for `18

After a series of delays and billions spent over budget, the potent James Webb Space Telescope is on...

NASA confirms `super-Earth` that could hold life

In another step toward finding Earth-like planets that may hold life, NASA has said the Kepler space...

Scientists find monster black holes, biggest yet

Scientists have found the biggest black holes known to exist each one 10 billion times the size of o...

Hubble telescope spots dwarf galaxies

NASA`s powerful Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a number of young dwarf galaxies brimming with st...

Hubble telescope finds disc around black hole

Scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope were able to find a distant dusty disc slowly spiralling...

NASA `solves` 2,000-year supernova mystery

New infrared observations from NASA telescopes have revealed how the first supernova ever recorded o...

`A day on Neptune is 16 hours long`

Neptune takes 15 hours, 57 minutes, and 59 seconds to rotate on its axis and complete one day.

Astronomers discover 2 hidden alien planets

Astronomers have tracked two elusive extrasolar planets that went undetected in image data from NASA...

India to give electronics sub-systems for Oz plan

India is providing critical digital electronics sub-systems for a USD 29 million next-generation rad...

ALMA telescope opens its eyes on the Universe

ALMA was officially opened for astronomers on Monday after a decade of planning and construction.

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