The moon's ascending node (the point in the sky where its orbit crosses the ecliptic from south to north) is moving westward ...

An extremely slow pulsar has made scientists “slow down” their assumptions about other pulsars. The pace could be caused by a ...

Boson stars, invisible celestial objects theorised to form from axions, are now at the centre of dark matter research. Axions, light and wave-like bosons, may cluster under gravity, forming these ...

Chiron, discovered in 1977, stands out for its cometary activity and the potential presence of rings of material. These characteristics make it a privileged object of study to understand the ...

Stargazers are in for a spectacular treat this weekend as Venus—often called the “Evening Star”—will appear right next to a ...

The overall time for one rotation for this particular object was 6.45 hours, but the team (in addition to the expected flash) observed a weaker flash halfway through that cycle. Luckily ...

Two Indian startups in Bengaluru announced on Wednesday the deployment of their satellites for closely monitoring the earth and its orbiting objects ... chain and life cycle of a spacecraft ...

The first is the Crab Cluster, due to the way famed British observer Admiral William Henry Smyth described it in his 1844 Cycle of Celestial Objects: For the Use of Naval, Military, and Private ...