A mysterious population of glowing red dots scattered across the early universe has led astronomers to a startling new theory: these objects may not be ancient galaxies, but instead an entirely new ...

Echoes of Knowledge Through Time The story of the oldest libraries begins in places where clay tablets and scrolls carried wisdom across centuries. The Royal Library of Ashurbanipal in Nineveh guarded ...

When one steps inside the quiet, dimly lit gallery at India International Centre, the walls begin to speak. Panels glow ...

Grote Reber helped spark decades of interest in radio astronomy in Tasmania when he decided to call the southern state home.

At the Gyan Bharatam International Conference organised by the Ministry of Culture in New Delhi, PM Modi said India still ...

Dark energy —the term used to describe whatever is causing the universe to expand at an increasing rate—is one of the ...

Sept. 19 is my official retirement date as the director of the Vatican Observatory. After a delightful 10 years in the post, ...

When the biggest geomagnetic storm in 20 years hit Earth in May 2024, photographer Kavan Chay was in Tumbledown Bay, New ...

In the 19th century, archaeologists excavating the ancient ruins of Nineveh, present-day Mosul in Iraq, unearthed one of the ...

The dwarf planet Pluto and its five known natural satellites (Charon, Styx, Nix, Kerberos, and Hydra) may be frigid, but ...

Hubble has uncovered a rare ultra-massive white dwarf created in a violent star merger. Once thought to be ordinary, the star ...

"When we see features like this in sediment on Earth, these minerals are often the byproduct of microbial metabolisms that ...