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Hyderabad will witness Zero Shadow Day on Saturday at 12:12 pm, when shadows briefly disappear as the Sun reaches directly overhead. Birla Planetarium is hosting a free session to help people observe and understand this rare astronomical phenomenon.

Astronomers worldwide are tracking 3I/ATLAS, the third confirmed interstellar object, currently traversing our solar system. Larger and faster than its predecessors Oumuamua and 2I Borisov, the comet offers a rare opportunity to study materials from beyond our star system.

C/2022 E3 (ZTF) is also reffered as Green comet (ZTF) or Neanderthal Comet, was identified by astronomers Bryce Bolin and Frank Masc using a 48-inch Samuel Oschin robotic telescope, by Zwicky Transient Facility on March 2, 2022, in California

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope found fingerprints of 'dimethyl sulphide' and 'dimethyl disulphide' on distant exoplanet named K2-18 b -- known to be produced on Earth by microbes. The molecules provide the strongest evidence yet that life may exist on a planet outside our solar system, even as how they formed on that exoplanet remain unknown

On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from Earth. Follow up observations have revealed that the asteroid, 2024 YR4, is on a path that might lead to a collision with our planet on 22 December 2032

N. Sree Raghunandan Kumar, the founder president of the Planetary Society of India (PSI), advises, "While there are some exaggerated reports about the visibility of 6 to 7 planets, this is a great opportunity to observe four planets in just a few minutes in the evening sky. However, there’s no need to rush out and buy telescopes."

Astronomers believe that our solar system once created a shadow like this

The stunning image of Mercury posted by the NASA on Instagram, has created chatter on social media.

Astrophysicists have hinted at the existence of several black holes in the Hyades cluster -- the closest open cluster to our solar system

An international team of astronomers has discovered 62 new moons orbiting Saturn, taking the total number to 145

The exoplanet called 'HIP 65426 b' is a gas giant, meaning it has no rocky surface and could not be habitable.

Washington: NASA and European Space Agency’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured images of a Jupiter-like protoplanet forming through what researchers describe as an “intense and violent process”. This discovery supports a long-debated theory for how planets like Jupiter form, called “disk instability”, the researchers said. The new planet under construction is embedded in a protoplanetary […]

Washington: Researchers have discovered a new form of ice, which could have implications for our understanding of distant, water-rich planets. The findings of the study were published in the journal ‘Physical Review B’. Solid water, or ice, is like many other materials in that it can form different solid materials based on variable temperatures and […]

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The planet, which has four times the diameter of Earth, rotates on its side, making it different from all other planets in the solar system.

Jupiter’s Europa and Saturn’s Enceladus, despite their frozen, forbidding surfaces, are hiding vast oceans beneath the ice

The exoplanet called "HD106906 b" occupies an unlikely orbit around a double star 336 light-years away, according to the study published in the Astronomical Journal.

Venus is the second planet from the sun and is the hottest in our solar system.

NASA's first mission to return a sample from an ancient asteroid -- the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-Rex -- is a seven-year long voyage

A study, led by Washington State University scientist Dirk Schulze-Makuch and published in the journal Astrobiology, detailed characteristics of potential "superhabitable" planets, that include those that are older