An international team, including Pune’s IUCAA, has identified a rare 200-day dimming of the star ASASSN-24fw. The study, ...

As next-generation telescopes map this outer frontier, astronomers are bracing for discoveries that could reveal hidden planets, strange structures, and clues to the solar system’s chaotic youth.

Worlds like Tatooine—the iconic twin-sun planet from Star Wars—are no longer confined to science fiction; they have entered ...

From dark-sky parks to remote deserts, these locations offer prime views of the March 3, 2026, blood moon.

Hawaiʻi Island’s largest astronomy education program, Journey Through the Universe, hosted its 22nd year of classroom visits, career panels, and community events in Hilo last week.

A DOOMED comet has been pictured breaking apart less than a year after it was first spotted The crumbling comet whizzed past ...

A special feature consisting of six research papers has been published in the journal of the Astronomical Society of Japan, ...

Last week AES Andes—a subsidiary of the AES Corporation, an American energy company—announced it had scrapped its plans for a ...

After a year of protests from astronomers, authorities have abandoned plans for a giant, light-polluting renewable-energy ...

Comet C/2025 K1 ATLAS, a relatively new visitor from the outer solar system, has broken apart after swooping close to the Sun ...

The U.S. Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory website is currently offline, officials said Sunday. The outage ...

Both the telescope facilities are slated to come up in Ladakh, which already has several operational sky observation facilities, including the Chandra telescope.