Astronomers spot rare cosmic blast that may have completely erased a giant star
Astronomers initially thought the explosion was a Type II supernova, but some things just didn't add up.
Published: Jun 2, 2026 | By Disita Sikdar
Scientists have found a way to weigh newborn planets—the key is to read 'between the rings'
The bright rings that newborn planets create around their young stars can be studied to figure out their masses.
Updated: Jun 2, 2026 | By Ankita Garkoti
James Webb Space Telescope has found a stellar bar that should not exist
A stellar bar has been discovered in the galaxy GN20, which dates back to just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang.
Published: Jun 2, 2026 | By Disita Sikdar
Most massive galaxies stopped producing stars very early on in their lives—scientists find out why
To find answers, scientists looked into two very different populations—Dusty Star-Forming Galaxies and Massive Quiescent Galaxies.
Published: May 29, 2026 | By Disita Sikdar
Astrophotographer captures stunning image of Horsehead Nebula after over 115 hours of observation
Astrophotographer Greg Meyer spent 115 hours collecting image data with a Radian Raptor 61 mm telescope an astronomy camera.
Published: May 29, 2026 | By Ankita Garkoti
Black hole binaries in the universe are produced in more than one way, says new study
Scientists analyzed hundreds of collisions before concluding that black hole binaries originate in distinct sub-populations.
Published: May 28, 2026 | By Biplab Das
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures dwarf irregular galaxy located 23 million light-years away
The telescope operational for over 35 years has been looking at the movement of cosmic matter.
Published: May 28, 2026 | By Pranjal Nath
Using TESS, scientists discover extremely rare triple star system where three stars eclipse each other
Located 3,080 light-years away, the system has a binary pair regularly eclipsed by a massive giant.
Published: May 28, 2026 | By Biplab Das
Scientists found a galaxy so old its chemistry points directly to the universe's very first stars
An international team studied the ultra-faint galaxy LAP1-B and found it to be the most chemically bare galaxy ever observed in the early universe.
Published: May 27, 2026 | By Ankita Garkoti
Subaru, James Webb study galaxy cluster from 12.6 billion years ago—here's what they found
The study provides fresh insights into the formation of massive clusters in the early universe.
Published: May 27, 2026 | By Biplab Das
Supermassive black holes could be making exoplanets unsuitable for life, finds new study
The study suggests SMBHs could threaten exoplanet habitability, even within the Goldilocks Zone.
Published: May 26, 2026 | By Disita Sikdar
On a 'Hot Jupiter', day begins with clouds; by nightfall those clouds vanish—here's why
The 'Hot Jupiter' exoplanet located roughly 700 light-years away is called WASP 94A b.
Published: May 26, 2026 | By Biplab Das
15 years of data reveals temperate super-Earth around a red dwarf star just 28 light-years away
The planet is six times more massive than Earth, but colder than our home planet.
Published: May 25, 2026 | By Biplab Das
Why do some solar eruptions abruptly die? New study sheds light on the scientific mystery
Astronomers detected a hidden 'magnetic cage' that sometimes stops powerful solar eruptions.
Published: May 22, 2026 | By Biplab Das
NASA’s Fermi Telescope detects gamma rays from a rare, unusually luminous supernova
Scientists believe that the extreme luminosity of the supernova stems from a magnetar at its center.
Published: May 22, 2026 | By Pranjal Nath
Giant 50-meter observatory could pierce interstellar dust, revealing the hidden half of the cosmos
The proposed observatory will also search for the molecular building blocks of life in deep space.
Published: May 21, 2026 | By Biplab Das
NASA's Hubble images rare post-starburst galaxy located 100 million light-years away
The galaxy called NGC 1266 is in a phase when it has gone past its burst of star formation but is yet to become a quieter elliptical galaxy.
Published: May 19, 2026 | By Biplab Das
The butterfly effect in galaxy formation: How minute changes in star positions affect development
The study challenges assumptions that galaxies are too vast to be affected by small changes.
Published: May 15, 2026 | By Biplab Das
New instrument, TIME, maps the Milky Way's core to prepare for a survey of the early universe
Astronomers tested the TIME spectrometer on our own galaxy before aiming it at the cosmic dawn.
Published: May 14, 2026 | By Biplab Das
James Webb Space Telescope provides never-seen-before map of the universe
The map traces back to the point when the universe was 1 billion years old.
Published: May 13, 2026 | By Biplab Das