Astronomers at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), an autonomous institution of the Department of Science and ...

Sometimes, in order to support an idea, you first have to discredit alternative, competing ideas that could take resources ...

For the first time, astronomers have witnessed the very first solid particles forming around a baby sun-like star, HOPS-315, over 1,300 light-years away. Using Nasa’s James Webb Telescope and ALMA in ...

While the Sun appears placid to the naked eye, it is a roiling sphere of ionized gas or plasma, shaped by powerful magnetic fields.

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Proxima Centauri b is the closest known exoplanet to our solar system that is thought to be within the habitable zone of its star.

The Sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had ...

How light is light? The James Webb Space Telescope has just been able to directly image a planet so light and faint that, in exoplanet parlance, it’s all but a cosmic featherweight. TWA 7b, which ...

This week, momentum is building around nuclear fusion, as tech investment and breakthroughs suggest it may arrive sooner than ...

A new mission set to blast off for low-Earth orbit will study magnetic storms around the Earth and learn more about how they ...