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When most people think of our Solar System, they think of the 8 planets officially recognized by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). But what if I told you there are at least 40 planets, and ...
The allocation for outreach programmes by the planetarium saw a dip after 2022. From Rs 29-31 lakh, it went down to Rs 16 ...
Several planets stand still in the sky, Titan’s shadow transits Saturn, and Venus gives Taurus a second eye in the sky this ...
Venus, shrouded in mystery, stands out with its toxic atmosphere and retrograde rotation, spinning in the opposite direction ...
NASA has released the closest-ever images of the Sun, captured just 3.8 million miles from its surface. Since its launch in ...
The presence of apparent biological signatures on Venus has left UK-based researchers chasing down bacterial life in the ...
The Senate appropriations committee initially voted in favor of a bill rejecting Trump's NASA budget cuts, but discussions ...
We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.
Astronomers have discovered yet another alien visitor to the Solar System. This one appears to be a comet, a ball of dust, ...
Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) chairman and managing director (CMD) N. Balram on Thursday warned that the solar plant constructions taken up by Singareni under the directions of the state ...
Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...
Aeolian bedforms are common on Earth and across the solar system, including on Mars, Venus, Pluto, the Saturn moon Titan, the Neptune moon Triton, and Comet 67P. These geological features, among the ...