I/ATLAS might be over 7 billion years old, a new study reports, which would make it the oldest comet known. But experts caution we need more data.

When the news started to spread on July 1, 2025, about a new object that was spotted from outside our solar system, only the ...

The VERVE mission seeks to investigate the presence of bacterial life floating in the heavy cloud cover on Venus up close.

A mystery interstellar object discovered last week is likely to be the oldest comet ever seen—possibly predating our solar system by more than 3 billion years, researchers say.

The highest astronomical observatory in India is the Indian Astronomical Observatory (IAO), located in Hanle, Ladakh.

Researchers from the University of Glasgow teamed up with the culture and research organisation Science Ceilidh to develop a dance to mark the 10th anniversary of the historic first detection of ...

The allocation for outreach programmes by the planetarium saw a dip after 2022. From Rs 29-31 lakh, it went down to Rs 16 ...

Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), Thiruvananthapuram, is directly supported by ISRO and offers ...

Every year in mid-July, downtown State College and parts of Penn State's campus come alive with visitors to the Central ...

A proposed satellite mission aims to orbit the far side of the Moon to detect faint radio signals from the universe’s cosmic ...

Women and ethnic minority groups are still significantly underrepresented in astronomy and geophysics despite attempts to ...

SPHEREx is scanning the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, beaming weekly data to a public archive so scientists and citizen ...