Kaun Banega Crorepati 17, hosted by Amitabh Bachchan, has seen many smart and confident contestants take the hot seat. One of them was Shaurya Sarda, a young achiever who appeared in the latest ...

Over the course of human history, perhaps no single object in the night sky has drawn more attention than the Andromeda ...

Armillary rings emerged in the 16th and 17th centuries during the birth of the scientific revolution and rise of astronomy ...

It is common practice for seafaring ships to be tugged into and out of port by specialized boats, as their captains need to navigate narrow and treacherous passageways without damaging their vessels.

An illustration of a habitable zone planet orbiting the star called TRAPPIST – credit NASA, ESA, CSA, J. Olmsted (STScI) One of the major things that the mightily impressive James Webb Space Telescope ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) could have discovered an unknown form of galactic object known as a black hole star. It seems that these objects are made up of a black hole at the center, ...

NASA has announced that for the first time, it will contract out a private spacecraft to reboost one of its falling satellites: the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory. The observatory has spent the past ...

More times than she can remember, Jean Mueller stood on the catwalk of the 200-inch Hale Telescope at the Palomar Observatory scanning the night sky, trying to time the exact moment to close the dome.

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Jean Mueller became Palomar Observatory’s first female telescope operator in 1985, breaking decades-old gender ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. In addition to NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe), two other spacecraft are on the launch pad ...

The Earth-size exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 e, depicted at the lower right, is silhouetted as it passes in front of its flaring host star in this artist’s concept of the TRAPPIST-1 system. Credit: NASA, ESA, ...

Saturn is reclaiming its throne in the night sky and on September 21 will make its closest approach to Earth for the year. For centuries, Saturn has been known as the “ringed planet,” its dazzling ...