Jayant Narlikar has been one of the most prolific scientists, and science communicators India has ever produced. The octogenarian had died at his residence in Pune.
A distant exoplanet, some 140 light-years from Earth, is making its final stand—and it’s a spectacular, fiery exit.
Dr. Madhusudhan, a leading Indian-British astrophysicist at the University of Cambridge, has long been on the frontlines of the search for extraterrestrial life
The presence of an organic compound, dimethyl sulfide in an alien planet, has astronomers wondering whether they have indirectly confirmed life thriving outside our solar system.
Astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore returned from the ISS last month, younger than we did in the past ten months - thanks to strange physics...
David Wiltshire, a cosmologist at New Zealand’s University of Canterbury, proposed an alternate model that gets rid of dark energy entirely. But in doing so, it...
R. Doradus, a star 180 light years away, can fit some 75 suns inside a single one of its convection cells.
The newfound celestial body is the second-lightest planet discovered to date.
Priyamvada Natarajan's contributions in astronomy helped shed light into two major research interests in contemporary astrophysics - the origins of supermassive black holes, and mapping dark...
“This is the kind of discovery you make once in your research life," says Pasquale Panuzzo, an astronomer part of a study which discovered the most...
