With this project, the People's Republic is once again proving that it has long been a leader in astronomy. The world's ...

It’s time to introduce our hero, (Joseph) Norman Lockyer (1836-1920). Lockyer was a respected though minor civil servant, working as a secretary for the War Office in Whitehall. He had a comfortable ...

The Proba-3 satellite will be launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) aboard the Polar Satellite Launch ...

The salt crystals, consisting of rock salt, sodium carbonate, and sodium sulfate, are crucial for understanding the evolution ...

The scientists have described their observations in the paper, ‘Imaging the innermost circumstellar environment of the red ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has taken a detailed look at the Milky Way's monstrous young supercluster Westerlund 1.

Asteroid 2022 WJ1 made first and final contact with our planet on November 19, 2022. It is now estimated to be an S-chondrite ...

Scientists have discovered Earth-sized dark UV spots at Jupiter's poles, likely caused by magnetically driven vortices ...

The Babylonians believed the night sky was the channel of communication between the heavens and the earth IAU/Wikimedia ...

In 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made Uranus the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope.

A recent study shows tungsten disilicide’s potential in efficient ... led by Associate Professor Ryuji Okazaki from the ...

Astronomy is a lovely undertaking by day or by night, but the sky has delights to offer in the between times as well. When ...