Scientists find a new way to predict space weather based on how the Sun goes to 'sleep'
"The Sun doesn't gently go to sleep and then gently wake up again."
Published: Jul 22, 2026 | By Biplab Das
Scientists discover the Sun has more silver than previously estimated
"The new knowledge about the Sun’s composition is important for the understanding of other stars, planets and cosmic material."
Published: Jul 21, 2026 | By Biplab Das
Identity of the space rock that wiped out the dinosaurs has been uncovered
The dinosaurs were killed by a particularly rare kind of space rock.
Published: Jul 21, 2026 | By Biplab Das
'Catastrophic': Million-satellite 'ring' around Earth could be crippling for observational astronomy
Plans also include putting 50,000 orbital mirrors in space, which could make the sky 300% brighter.
Published: Jul 21, 2026 | By Ankita Garkoti
A near-Earth asteroid has revealed itself as a comet 27 years after its discovery in a NASA study
Scientists began suspecting the object when they saw unanticipated changes in its orbit.
Published: Jul 20, 2026 | By Harsh Vardhan
Scientists find life-supporting organic compounds in meteorite that struck New Jersey home
The meteorite also offers fresh insights into the history of the early solar system.
Published: Jul 17, 2026 | By Biplab Das
'Like a 4-billion-year-old weather report': NASA's Perseverance offers glimpse of ancient Mars
The rover's study of ancient rocks reveals how asteroid impacts shaped soil layers on Mars.
Published: Jul 17, 2026 | By Biplab Das
Four uninhabitable worlds six light-years away—new data reveals more about Barnard's Star planets
From orbits to composition, here's what new data tells us about the Barnard's Star planetary system.
Published: Jul 17, 2026 | By Biplab Das
'Found you!': Astronomers find the faintest planet ever photographed after 11 years of hide and seek
Beta Pictoris is now the second known system where more than two planets have been directly imaged.
Published: Jul 16, 2026 | By Ankita Garkoti
Four dead stars discovered not too far from Earth stun scientists
"It's a reminder that even in our own cosmic neighborhood, we can still find surprises if we look in the right way, at the right wavelengths."
Published: Jul 15, 2026 | By Biplab Das
First 'true sugar' molecule found in interstellar space could reshape what we know of life's origins
The new discovery suggests that sugar, essential to life on Earth, may have come from space.
Published: Jul 14, 2026 | By Biplab Das
All about Sunrise III: Balloon-borne observatory whose data is providing fresh insights into the Sun
Thanks to Sunrise III, researchers were able to track acoustic waves within the photosphere and chromosphere for the first time ever.
Published: Jul 13, 2026 | By Biplab Das
Could a world trapped in endless day and night still host life? Here's what scientists found
These exoplanets seem too harsh to harbor life, but life might still find a way.
Published: Jul 13, 2026 | By Ankita Garkoti
Scientists find AI can be fooled into detecting false signs of alien life
In virtual experiments, AI repeatedly misread dead digital organisms as self-replicating life.
Published: Jul 9, 2026 | By Biplab Das
Will Earth survive the Sun’s death? Here’s what a new study found
It all comes down to a tug-of-war that Earth might just win.
Published: Jul 9, 2026 | By Ankita Garkoti
Japan’s Hayabusa2 completes high-speed flyby of asteroid Torifune, releases new images
The flyby, although successful, was not a part of the original plan for Hayabusa2.
Published: Jul 7, 2026 | By Ankita Garkoti
Chinese space probe travels 621 million miles over 400 days to study an asteroid, shares photo
The probe has imaged the asteroid and will carry out scientific tests after landing on it.
Published: Jul 6, 2026 | By Biplab Das
Why is Sun's atmosphere hotter than its own surface? Long-standing mystery may finally have an answer
This question has stumped scientists for decades, and the answer may have been hiding in plain sight.
Published: Jul 3, 2026 | By Ankita Garkoti
A Jupiter-sized planet miraculously survived the death of its host star—James Webb finds how
There are two theories about how planet WD 1856 b survived. Here's what scientists think happened.
Published: Jul 2, 2026 | By Ankita Garkoti
A powerful X-class solar flare just erupted from the Sun—Here's what to know about it
Scientists are currently trying to determine if a coronal mass ejection (CME) was also launched.
Published: Jul 1, 2026 | By Pranjal Nath