DEEP SKY OBJECTS

Longest gamma-ray burst ever detected blazed for over seven hours — and astronomers are baffled

NASA's Fermi telescope was the first to identify the highly unusual cosmic explosion.
Updated: Dec 10, 2025  |  By Raj Naik

Scientists witness supermassive black hole blasting out matter at 20 percent the speed of light

An international team of astronomers conducted a ten-day observation of the NGC 3783 black hole using mainly the XRISM space telescope.
Published: Dec 9, 2025  |  By Raj Naik

Astronomers capture stunning close-up photos of exploding stars blasting material in multiple streams

A nova is a massive, temporary star explosion caused when a dense white dwarf star pulls material from a nearby star, setting off an uncontrolled nuclear reaction.
Published: Dec 8, 2025  |  By Raj Naik

Groundbreaking supercomputer simulations explain why black holes are so bright

A team of computational astrophysicists has developed a simulation that explains the behavior of matter around black holes.
Updated: Dec 5, 2025  |  By Saubhagya Mukherjee

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS appears to be covered in erupting 'icy volcanoes,' scientists say

A study has also concluded that the interior of 3I/ATLAS is rich in metal, which could challenge our current understanding of comet formation.
Published: Dec 5, 2025  |  By Saubhagya Mukherjee

5 mind-blowing discoveries NASA's James Webb Space Telescope made that Hubble Telescope couldn't

The James Webb captures a more panoramic image of stars and galaxies, spectacular visuals that were missed by most other observatories.
Published: Dec 4, 2025  |  By Mahalekshmi P

NASA's JWST discovers massive Milky Way-like spiral galaxy just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang

The discovery comes as a surprise to scientists, as they believed the formation of such well-organized spiral galaxies took billions of years.
Published: Dec 4, 2025  |  By Bhargavi PBA

Asteroid Bennu samples contain 'key to happiness' among other fascinating things

Scientists have found a nutrient crucial to the production of serotonin in the asteroid samples.
Updated: Dec 3, 2025  |  By Saubhagya Mukherjee

53 massive quasars found blasting out jets 50 times the diameter of the Milky Way

These giant radio quasars belong to a group of 369 that was recently discovered by the Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope near Pune, India.
Updated: Dec 2, 2025  |  By Saubhagya Mukherjee

Groundbreaking finding: Objects near black hole Sagittarius A* are orbiting safely, not falling in after all

An international team of researchers observed four highly intriguing 'dust objects' using the ERIS instrument at the Very Large Telescope facility in Chile.
Updated: Dec 1, 2025  |  By Raj Naik

Black Holes: From unbelievable theory to observable reality

Delve into how black holes went from being mathematical curiosities to imaged phenomena
Published: Nov 30, 2025  |  By Mahalekshmi P

We've now detected 40,000 near-Earth asteroids, thousands more will be discovered soon

10,000 of the 40,000 were discovered in the last three years alone.
Published: Nov 28, 2025  |  By Saubhagya Mukherjee

Stunning new image of Butterfly Nebula captured by Gemini South telescope in Chile

Located 2,500 to 3,800 light-years away in the Scorpius constellation, this nebula's unusual shape is a result of its central star shedding material.
Published: Nov 27, 2025  |  By Raj Naik

Century-old mystery solved? Scientists may have 'seen' dark matter for the very first time

New data from a NASA space telescope hints that scientists may have finally captured the first direct glimpse of the mysterious substance.
Updated: Nov 26, 2025  |  By Raj Naik

Unknown asteroid flew past Earth closer than a satellite—and we didn't spot it until hours later

The giraffe-sized asteroid flew over Antarctica unnoticed.
Published: Nov 26, 2025  |  By Mahalekshmi P

James Webb Telescope finds potentially record-breaking black hole from early universe

The black hole is nestled in a distant galaxy named GHZ2.
Published: Nov 25, 2025  |  By Raj Naik

Counting the comets: 2025’s discovery tally so far

Comet 3I/ATLAS might have stolen all the headlines, but it's far from the only comet that has been discovered this year.
Published: Nov 22, 2025  |  By Devanshee Singh

Scientists finally track a hard-to-see companion orbiting aging red giant 400 times the size of our Sun

The discovery throws light on how giant or dying stars behave with their surroundings and other objects around them. 
Published: Nov 18, 2025  |  By Devanshee Singh

Astronomers finally spotted what they were searching for decades—1st coronal mass ejection from another star

Scientists have spotted a red dwarf star about 130 light-years away ejecting an enormous amount of material into space.
Published: Nov 13, 2025  |  By Raj Naik

Would a human survive falling into a black hole?

A black hole has a huge mass packed into an infinitely tiny space.
Published: Nov 13, 2025  |  By Devanshee Singh