4+ day, 33+ min ago   (328+ words) Shimla, Sep 9 (PTI) Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu on Wednesday met Union Minister of State for Science and Technology Jitendra Singh and discussed a host of proposals, including the establishment of astronomy and astrophysics centres in Lahaul and…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (498+ words) New Delhi: NASA’s next major space observatory, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, is scheduled to launch on Sunday from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission aims to survey vast regions of the universe, study the nature of dark…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (1278+ words) Rohan Naidu is an assistant professor of astronomy at the University of Hawaii, and one of the lead researchers behind the discovery of a new astronomical object — the black hole star. New Delhi: When Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar released in 2014, it…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (564+ words) Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have found definitive evidence of a massive galactic collision that occurred nearly 12 billion years ago. This discovery pushes back the known history of the Milky Way’s growth by 1.8 billion years. The report, published on…...