The Indian astronomical community on Sunday hailed the Union Budget 2026-27 for its landmark push to create world-class observational infrastructure, calling it a transformative step that will enable ...

Budget 2026 proposes establishing and upgrading the National Large Solar Telescope, National Large Optical Infrared Telescope ...

A new image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows the Lupus 3 cloud in Scorpius bursting with young stars that are forming within collapsing clouds of gas and dust.

A new study has connected the famous m87 black hole, the first ever imaged, to its powerful cosmic jet, revealing how it launches particles at near light speed.

Astronomers have captured the first radio signals from a rare supernova, revealing intense activity in a star’s final years before it exploded.

There are several ancient monuments proving that our predecessors possessed knowledge of astronomy and used it for practical purposes.

Before telescopes, ancient Greek astronomers relied on naked-eye observations of the night sky to understand the universe ...

A 13-atom molecule containing sulfur has been discovered in interstellar space for the first time, providing insight into the origins of the chemistry of life.

As gas falls toward a black hole, it heats up and shines. If the glow becomes intense enough, it can push incoming gas away. Astronomers call this balancing point the Eddington limit, and for decades ...

Alexander Venner picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA telescope called Kepler, which ...

Astronomers at Texas A&M University have discovered a rare, tightly packed collision of galaxies in the early universe, suggesting that galaxies were interacting and shaping their surroundings far ...

A "crowdsourced" project in which home computer users were enlisted to help analyze radio signals from space is ending after more than two decades.