astrophysics

A three-day workshop on making 'telescope' using local resources has concluded at Chhauni-based Shree Panchakanya Secondary School.

Galactic gobble: For the first time, scientists have caught a star in the act of swallowing a planet — not just a nibble or bite, but one big gulp.

Published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, a study carried out by the Stellar Standard Candles and Distances research group

When two black holes collide into each other to form a new bigger black hole, they violently roil spacetime around them, sending ripples called gravitational waves outward in all directions.

Actual shape of cloud-like diffusion of stars surrounding disk of our milky-way galaxy has finally been discovered.

The universe has hundreds of protoplanetary discs, which are the bands of gas and dust encircling newly formed young stars.