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Space

Webb telescope reveals Fiery origins and chemical secrets of distant giant planets

Pranjal Malewar

Webb images young, giant exoplanets, detects carbon dioxide.

Slants-River
Space

Perseverance triumphs over challenges to unveil Mars’ geological secrets

Pranjal Malewar

Navigating a slanted river.

HD 20794
Space

A bizarre super-earth that experiences extreme temperature shifts

Amit Malewar

Super-earth swings from super-heated to super-chill.

Image A: Flame Nebula: Hubble and Webb Observations
Space

Webb Telescope Unveils Elusive Brown Dwarfs in the Flame Nebula

Amit Malewar

The team found free-floating objects roughly two to three times the mass of Jupiter.

NASA Successfully Acquires GPS Signals on Moon
Space

Milestone: NASA achieved GPS signals on Moon

Amit Malewar

The first technology demonstration to acquire and track Earth-based navigation signals on the Moon’s surface.

Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander
Space

Firefly’s Blue Ghost successfully landed on Moon

Amit Malewar

Touchdown!

satellite galaxies
Space

Bird’s-eye view of Andromeda galaxy’s ecosystem

Amit Malewar

Building a precise 3D mapping of all the dwarf galaxies buzzing around Andromeda.

HH 30
Space

The secrets of Herbig-Haro objects

Amit Malewar

Webb investigates a dusty and dynamic disc.

bullseye galaxy
Technology

Hubble sees a rare ‘bullseye’ galaxy with nine mesmerizing rings

Pranjal Malewar

Astronomers have discovered a unique collisional ring galaxy, nicknamed the "Bullseye," that features nine rings, the most observed in a collisional ring galaxy to...

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Space

Discovery of the Solar System’s most powerful energy source

Amit Malewar

Generates six times the power of Earth's total output.

asteroid bennu
Space

Big revelation: Life’s ingredients found in NASA’s asteroid Bennu sample

Amit Malewar

Conditions necessary for the emergence of life were widespread across the early solar system.

two different galaxy clusters
Space

Black holes cook their own meals: NASA

Amit Malewar

New evidence that outbursts from black holes can help cool down gas.

Blue puddles of water were visible atop
Environment

Meltwater remained visible atop Antarctica’s Amery ice shelf

Pranjal Malewar

Spanning from the Antarctic Peninsula in the west to the Amery Ice Shelf in the east.

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Space

A plasma jet and X-ray flashes arising from a supermassive black hole

Amit Malewar

Unprecedented features at brink of active black hole.

parker solar probe
Space

Record Breaking: Parker Solar Probe makes history with closest approach to the Sun

Pranjal Malewar

No human-made object has ever passed this close to a star.

A: Protoplanetary Disks in NGC 346 (NIRCam Image)
Space

Conundrum solved: NASA’s Webb finds planet-forming disks lived longer in Early Universe

Amit Malewar

A different environment in early times.

Martian Wonderland
Space

Curiosity rover explores martian butte

Amit Malewar

A Martian wonderland!

NGC 602
Space

Astronomers discover cosmic Wreaths and Christmas tree clusters in space

Amit Malewar

Displaying stellar circle of life.

WASP-69 b Tail
Space

A planet with a ‘tail’

Amit Malewar

It leaving a trail of gas in its wake.

Zal Patera
Space

NASA’s Juno captures lava channel thermal emissions at Zal Patera

Amit Malewar

On December 30, 2023, NASA's Juno spacecraft, which is currently studying Jupiter and its moons, made a groundbreaking observation using its Stellar Reference Unit...

Galaxy cluster MACS J1423 (NIRCam image)
Space

James Webb Space Telescope Uncovers ‘Firefly Sparkle’

Editorial Team

James Webb Space Telescope Uncovers 'Firefly Sparkle': A Unique Early-Forming Galaxy Similar to Young Milky Way

Quasar3C273
Space

The closest-ever look at a Quasar

Amit Malewar

A new gateway into understanding quasars.

Comet 67P
Space

Water on comet has a similar molecular signature to the water in Earth’s oceans

Amit Malewar

This finding reopens the case that Jupiter-family comets.

Camp Century
Science

NASA unexpectedly discovered a city under the Greenland ice sheet

Amit Malewar

A city under the ice.

hot Neptune
Space

NASA discovery: A ‘Hot Neptune’ discovered in a scorching close orbit

Amit Malewar

It is the fourth object of its kind ever found.

spiral galaxy UGC 10043
Space

UGC 10043: An edge-on spiral with curve appeal

Amit Malewar

One of the somewhat rare spiral galaxies.

Moon cover sun mysterious natural phenomenon in outer space, planetary standoff, sky galaxy, glowing stars, astronomy, cosmic background
Space

Astronomers detected a giant planet that transits a very young star

Amit Malewar

This is the youngest transiting planet found to date.

star cluster
Space

NASA unburies danger zones of star cluster

Amit Malewar

Planets beware!

The Sun at solar minimum
Space

Sun has reached its solar maximum period

Amit Malewar

It could continue for the next year.

A black hole depicted in deep space, drawing in a yellow star with fiery tendrils of gas, creating a dramatic contrast of light and dark, surrounded by distant galaxies and shining stars.
Space

Black hole eating stars, one after another

Amit Malewar

This research helps connect two cosmic mysteries.

Recent Stories

People with fatty liver disease have almost twice the mortality rate

Health

Galactic Giants: How black hole radiation might help life thrive

Space

The vast majority of the galaxies rotate in the same direction

Space

An experimental drug shows promise in lowering the risk of Alzheimer’s dementia

Neuroscience

MIT develops breakthrough quantum interconnect for scalable computing

Quantum Computing