In a first, scientists at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), an autonomous institute of the Department of Science ...

Scientists at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), an autonomous institute of the Department of Science and Technology ...

Astronomers have found an Earth-like exoplanet orbiting a distant white dwarf, shedding light on the possible future of our ...

In a surprise finding, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that the blowtorch-like jet from a supermassive black hole at the core of a huge galaxy seems to cause stars to ...

The discovery of an Earth-like planet 4,000 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy provides a preview of one possible fate ...

The first rocky planet ever spotted orbiting a burned out star called a white dwarf offers a glimpse of what may be in store ...

A 2020 microlensing event was caused by a planetary system with an Earth-like planet and brown dwarf. The star type was uncertain. The team has determined that the star is a white dwarf, a system ...

The first draft of Rob Grant and Doug Naylor’s science-fiction sitcom Red Dwarf was written in 1983 in a holiday cottage in Wales donated by Doug’s father. This getaway, which ...

The scientific community has long grappled with the question of whether these stars can support planets capable of sustaining ...

In a surprise finding, astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that the blowtorch-like jet from a supermassive black hole at the core of a huge galaxy seems to cause ...

The red giant phase is pretty crazy. The star's outer atmosphere can expand to hundreds of times its initial size; some ...