Avaneesh Pandey

Fresh observations have revealed that DeeDee, an objects in the outskirts of the solar system, is massive enough to be spherical — the criterion necessary for astronomers to consider it a dwarf planet.

A team of astronomers has succeeded in taking a composite “image” that they say shows dark matter filaments connecting galaxies.

After five nights of observations, astronomers associated with the Event Horizon Telescope project said Wednesday that they may have succeeded in snapping a photograph of Milky Way's supermassive black hole.

Scientists believe that the basin, located in the red planet’s southern hemisphere, once had a 1,300-foot-deep lake.

In a new theoretical study, a team of researchers state that quantum gravity would very quickly turn a naked singularity, even if it is created, into a black hole.

A team of researchers has used archival data from the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager on board NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft to measure visible light from other galaxies.

The observations could help scientists and engineers develop better nanoscale objects and circuits.

Scientists believe the weather system, located much higher in the gas giant's atmosphere than the Great Red Spot, is a byproduct of the planet's massive aurorae.

Researchers associated with the GERDA collaboration in Italy have embarked on an ambitious experiment that aims to answer a longstanding question — why is there something rather than nothing?

The discovery, in addition to shedding light on what the boundaries of extrasolar habitable zones are like, may also provide crucial insights into Venus’ evolution.

A new study has revealed that these "smart" cephalopods make prolific use of RNA editing, which allows them alter genetic information without changing the underlying DNA code.

The exoplanet, located just 39 light-years from Earth, is the most Earth-like planet around which an atmosphere has so far been detected.

The image was captured Monday, when Jupiter made its closest approach to Earth in a year, and just days before it came into opposition.

A team of researchers has taken a significant step toward solving the longstanding mystery surrounding these complex and calamitous events.

According to fresh analysis of raw photometric data of TRAPPIST-1, the star flares too frequently and too powerfully to be conducive to life around it.

New observations suggest that a class of Kuiper Belt objects called blue binaries formed much closer to the Sun and were then shepherded to their current location by Neptune’s gravitational nudges.

The deep space gateway would serve as a waypoint for crewed Mars missions, while the vehicle which would ferry humans to the red planet and beyond.

A team of researchers has uncovered evidence of two ancient geological events that separated Britain from mainland Europe.

Although the researchers focused on the global distribution of bivalve (a class of mollusks) species, they believe the model can be applied to any species.

The breakthrough has the potential to revolutionize water filtration — especially in countries that sorely lack access to clean drinking water.

The exact nature of the objects, detected using the 1.3-metre SkyMapper telescope at Siding Spring Observatory in Australia, is still not clear.

Observations made using the Molonglo radio telescope in Australia suggest that these intense bursts of radio emission have an extragalactic point of origin.

The young star, which is a pre-main sequence object, is believed to have two protoplanets currently coalescing in orbit around it — giving the system its vivid and thick bands of dust separated by deep gaps.

The experiment involved the creation of “quantum memory” using the spin of donor phosphorous nucleus, which behaved as long-lived qubit.

Physicists at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory have provided an answer to why the phenomenon, wherein oppositely directed magnetic field lines in plasma can break apart and reconnect, occurs much faster than theory says it should.

The ambitious international collaboration, which will begin observations this week, aims to photograph the shadow of the event horizon of the black hole at the centre of our galaxy.

According to a new study, the glaciers and ice caps that dot the edges of the Greenland’s coast are unlikely to recover from the melting they are currently experiencing.

The Neptune-sized planet, part of a five-planet system orbiting a G-type star, had long been "hiding in plain sight."

Scientists believe dark energy drives the universe's accelerated expansion. However, a computer simulation suggests that this mysterious force, which makes up 68 percent of the cosmos, may not be real.