With the Maoists in Chhattisgarh at their weakest, the government is racing ahead with key highway projects in what were ...

A tremendously large cloud that blocked the light from a distant star has been found to consist of swirling winds of ...

On a salt-crusted plain near the border with Pakistan, India is assembling a power plant so vast it can be seen from space.

Perseverance is a masterpiece of engineering. It has not moved in the last month due to the position of Mars – currently behind the Sun – as this disrupts radio communication between Mars and Earth, ...

A former Harvard physicist has argued that God may have a physical location within the universe. Unfortunately for anybody hoping to have a word with the deity, according to Dr Michael Guillén God is ...

After two years of careful study of Webb images, researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute’s Cosmic Dawn Centre reached a ...

Solar Orbiter has captured the clearest evidence yet that a solar flare grows through a cascading “magnetic avalanche.” Small, weak magnetic disturbances rapidly multiplied, triggering stronger and ...

Solar system comet C/2024 E1 (Wierzchos) makes its closest approach to the sun today (Jan. 20) during an event known as ...

A research team has successfully imaged a nova in high resolution—and the images suggest that the nova was not a single, impulsive explosion. A nova is an astronomical phenomenon that occurs in a ...

Every year in early January, Earth reaches the closest point in its orbit to the Sun, a moment astronomers call perihelion.

The Northern Lights could be visible in parts of New York state on Friday night, Jan. 16. National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

At times, the sun ejects energetic material into space, which can have consequences for space-based and even ground-based ...