The Birla Industrial and Technological Museum (BITM) has started its own astronomy club to help students unravel the mysteries of the cosmos and spark their interest in space science. On June 26, the...

The James Webb Space Telescope is the largest of its kind. It heralds a new era in infrared technology and astronomy. Here's a look at how infrared works. Scientists are abuzz with anticipation f...

“I remember an instance when a priest wrapped a cotton cloth around his shoulders and sprinkled kerosene over it. He then walked through a gate of fire. His clothes did not catch fire for three ...

Astronomers on Thursday unveiled the first image of the supermassive black hole at the centre of our own Milky Way galaxy. The finding, published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, provides overwh...

A partial solar eclipse and a total lunar eclipse will take place, at the end of this month and the middle of the next, respectively.  Kolkatans will miss both the eclipses. Debiprosad Duari, f...

The inaugural event was graced by K Vijay Raghavan, principal scientific advisor. Raghavan, a Padma Shri awardee, is a distinguished professor in the field of developmental genetics and former directo...

Is that what brought you to MIT from Midland, Michigan? When I went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, I thought I would become an astronaut. So I started out majoring in aeronautical engi...

Partnership to bring researchers of the two institutes closer to jointly address interesting scientific and engineering problems...

Nobel Laureate, Professor Antony Hewish FRS, Honorary Fellow of Gonville Caius College, Cambridge had died on September 13, 2021. He was 97. He took admission in Cambridge as an undergraduate in...

The new director’s area of expertise is Cosmology and Gravitational Wave Physics and Astronomy...