Category: Astronomy

It’s 280 million years after the Big Bang. The universe is dark, just beginning to light up with the first…

Across the vast stretches of our galaxy lie glowing nurseries of stars—tumultuous regions where gravity gathers clouds of dust and…

Every day, our solar system is bathed in a quiet, invisible rain of particles that don’t come from the Sun,…

In the vast, ancient darkness of the cosmos, two galaxies have locked themselves into a dramatic and violent celestial dance.…

In the ever-unfolding drama of the cosmos, where titanic energies collide in silence and the birth and death of stars…

Deep within the celestial nursery of the Taurus star-forming region, approximately 610 light-years from Earth, a young star named DR…

The Sun—our cosmic furnace, life-giver, and at times, an unruly force—has always held a central place in human imagination and…

Long before Earth formed its first oceans, long before Saturn donned its icy rings, and long before life flickered into…

The cosmos, with all its grandeur and mystery, occasionally bends to our curiosity — quite literally. The Hubble Space Telescope,…

The sky above us is not empty. Thousands of satellites circle Earth in low Earth orbit (LEO), some dutifully beaming…

In the quiet reaches of the sky, in a constellation quaintly known as Canes Venatici—the Hunting Dogs—two celestial bodies move…

Floating inside the International Space Station (ISS), where every inch of space counts and every astronaut’s time is precious, a…

Pulsars have long captured the imagination of astronomers, not just because of their extreme nature but because of the uncanny…

Imagine Mars not as the dusty, desolate orb we know today, but as a world veined with rivers, marbled with…

In the silent vastness of space, most stars quietly follow the expected script: they burn, age, and eventually fade according…

In the depths of space, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) opens its golden eye, not merely to look at…

Earth, our pale blue dot adrift in the great cosmic sea, resides in a relatively quiet neighborhood—roughly 26,000 light-years from…

As humanity sets its sights back on the Moon, the focus isn’t solely on dusty footprints and flags. This time,…

When you gaze at the night sky, what do you see? A canvas of stars, perhaps the glow of the…

Hovering like a luminous patch of sky-fire 160,000 light-years away, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is one of the Milky…

In the vast black canvas of the universe, stars burn, galaxies collide, and exotic objects like neutron stars and black…

Not long ago, the idea of planets orbiting distant stars belonged more to science fiction than science. The notion that…