In a first-of-its-kind discovery in nearly a century, NASA scientists have found the third-closest star system to the Sun, located only 6.5 light-years away. The pair of newly found stars is the closest star system discovered since 1916. ...
03:40 PM, Mar 12, 2013
Sydney: From boats bobbing on the Great Barrier Reef, to hot air balloons hovering over the rainforest, and the hilltops and beaches in between, tens of thousands of scientists, tourists and amateur astronomers watched as the sun, moon and Earth aligned and plunged northern Australia into darkness during a total solar eclipse on Wednesday. Stubborn clouds that many feared would ruin the view parted - somewhat - in north Queensland,...
08:36 AM, Nov 14, 2012
Los Angeles: It's a spectacle that won't repeat for another century - the sight of Venus slowly inching across the face of the sun. So unless scientists discover the fountain of youth, none of us alive today will likely ever witness this celestial phenomenon again, dubbed a "transit of Venus." It's so unique that museums and schools around the globe are hosting Venus viewing festivities - all for a chance...
03:52 PM, Jun 01, 2012
California: The most Earth-like planet ever discovered is circling a star 600 light years away, a key finding in an ongoing quest to learn if life exists beyond Earth, scientists said on Monday. The planet, called Kepler-22b, joins a list of more than 500 planets found to orbit stars beyond our solar system. It is the smallest and the best positioned to have liquid water on its surface -- among...
10:10 AM, Dec 06, 2011
HYDERABAD: Ever wanted to look through a telescope powerful enough to get you a view of not just planets but also comets, exoplanets and galaxies? Well, your wish is going to be fulfilled soon. The proposed GP Birla Observatory, said to be one of the best amateur public observatories in the country, is likely to be operational later this month. Equipped with the ultra powerful C-11 telescope, designed by the...
10:30 AM, Nov 04, 2011
New Delhi: A bunch of Indian students have left their mark on the Solar System as they have tracked down some extremely rare asteroids. The kids might look like average teenagers. But the truth is, they're special agents on a mission to Space. The students of Bal Bharti School were among hundreds across India trying to detect asteroids in our Solar System. They were trained by an Indian team of...
10:17 AM, Sep 02, 2011
New Delhi: Star gazers have another grand celestial event to celebrate. The finest planetary conjunction of the year will happen on May 11 when Venus passes very close to the south of Jupiter. The two brightest planets on the sky will not get this close anytime before August 2014. Beginning May 11, the four planets Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Mars will rearrange themselves to form different patterns in the sky....
09:04 AM, May 11, 2011
Moscow: Does the sun revolve around the Earth? One in every three Russians thinks so, a spokeswoman for state pollster VsTIOM said on Friday. In a survey released this week, 32 percent of Russians believed the Earth was the center of the Solar system; 55 percent that all radioactivity is man-made; and 29 percent that the first humans lived when dinosaurs still roamed the Earth. "It's really quite amazing," spokeswoman...
03:28 PM, Feb 12, 2011
New Delhi: NASA has found out more planets are two thousand light years away. We won't get there in our lifetimes. They're much larger than Earth, but need just a few days or months to complete an orbit. Which means they're closer to their star than Mercury is to our sun. Planetary Scientist, Kepler Science Jack Lissauer says, "This is the most compact system of planets discovered by any technique,...
09:17 AM, Feb 04, 2011
Washington: An orbiting NASA telescope is finding whole new worlds of possibilities in the search for alien life, spotting more than 50 potential planets that appear to be in the habitable zone. In just a year of peering out at a small slice of the galaxy, the Kepler telescope has discovered 1,235 possible planets outside our solar system. Amazingly 54 of them are seemingly in the zone that could be...
02:00 PM, Feb 03, 2011
London: Astronomers have discovered what they say is the biggest ever black hole which weighs the same as 6.8 billion suns and could swallow our entire solar system. According to the scientists, the black hole, identified as M87, is as large as the orbit of Neptune and by far the largest and most distant galaxy in the nearby universe. As a point of comparison, the black hole at the centre...
06:02 PM, Jan 17, 2011
London: A woman in Spain claimed that she is the owner of the sun after she got it registered as her property. She now plans to charge people who benefit from the sun's energy, it was reported. Fortynine-year-old Angeles Duran, a resident of Vigo in Spain's northwestern region of Galicia, applied for ownership of the Sun after she learnt that similar claims had been made by a US national on...
05:49 PM, Dec 02, 2010
Astronomers have claimed to have found a planet beyond our solar system that could sustain life. ...
07:50 PM, Oct 01, 2010
The planet is called Corot-7b. It was first discovered earlier this year. ...
12:02 PM, Sep 17, 2009
London: Regretting the loss of key players to injuries midway through the match, India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Monday criticised the variable bounce of the Lord's pitch after his team's defeat in the first Test against England here. What we saw different from the 2007 series this time was the variable bounce. It became tough. In 2007, there was much more bounce but it was even too. It was...
10:55 AM, Feb 15, 2008
People can watch a celestial wonder in the sky with as many as eight planets making appearance in a single month. ...
10:13 PM, Jun 02, 2007
"My Very Excellent Mother Just Sent Us Nine Pizzas." That's just one of the ways people learnt the names of planets. ...
08:19 PM, Aug 25, 2006
