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Women and ethnic minority groups are still significantly underrepresented in astronomy and geophysics despite attempts to ...
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.
A mystery interstellar object discovered last week is likely to be the oldest comet ever seen – possibly predating our solar system by more than three billion years, researchers say. The "water ...
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 Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium is making real change on the ground, enabling astronomy research. Its Research Education ...
The Sharjah Academy for Astronomy, Space Sciences, and Technology (SAASST) at the University of Sharjah (UoS) organised a ...
This unprecedented view of the Bullet Cluster provided by the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...
The allocation for outreach programmes by the planetarium saw a dip after 2022. From Rs 29-31 lakh, it went down to Rs 16 ...
Ntlathi is set to become the first black South African in space. But his joy may be dampened by the government seemingly ...
Overall, the citizen scientists identified 10,001 eclipsing binary pairs. Of those, 7,936 were previously unknown.
The UP government is setting up astronomy labs in schools to enhance rural students' understanding of science through ...
There was also Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS), which became visible to the naked eye during late summer and early autumn ...