The various beaches in and around Sidmouth are topped with pebble, shingle and dark red sand and the rock pools are a big hit with the children. When the conditions are right, surfers also venture out ...

The origin and the central engine of GRBs have long been pending for identification. Now a joint observation by LEIA and ...

the field of astronomy has been dominated by efforts to build newer and bigger telescopes. The TMT is projected to cost $1.4 billion, and the other observatories being built in this wave (all ...

Imagine a Slushee™ composed of ammonia and water encased in a hard shell of water ice. Now picture these ice-encrusted slushballs, dubbed "mushballs ...

Scientists also see LIGO-India as a cornerstone for a broader ecosystem of multi-messenger astronomy, where gravitational wave detections are followed up with electromagnetic and neutrino ...

Bold claims of ‘biosignature’ molecules trigger an outpouring of scepticism.

Extreme cosmic events such as colliding black holes or the explosions of stars can cause ripples in spacetime, so-called ...

The discovery of the most distant spiral galaxy to date may change the way we think about both the speed and process in which such systems are birthed, an international team led by the University of ...

Published in Nature, scientists at King's College London, Harvard University, UC Berkeley and others have shared the ...

Neutron star mergers are collisions between neutron stars, the collapsed cores of what were once massive supergiant stars.