Computers assist astronomers in classifying galaxies

Scientists may soon know what powers quasars

...and latest findings have 2 groups of mutually hostile astronomers still going cockeyed trying to gauge the age of the universe

Channels and valleys observed on the Martian surface and meteorites of Martian origin indicate that once there might have been water on the planet

What on Earth are comets? And why do they behave whimsically like they do?

India's largest optical telescope is likely to be located in the Himalaya at a height of 4,000 metres by the turn of the century. The Union government has cleared Rs 1.5 crore of the Rs 50 crore

Of all the planets in our solar system, Mercury has been the most elusive it took astronomers almost 14 centuries to predict its orbit correctly. The latest sighting of the planet, called its transit, occurred earlier this month.

The Gemini twin telescope project, being spearheaded by Britain, will help astronomers watch a planet being born