When White Dwarfs Collide
How tides, mergers and thermonuclear explosions forge and disperse iron across the Universe Type Ia supernovae are…
Why hasn’t humanity returned to the Moon?
Humans have already landed on the Moon six times. So why have we not gone back in…
The Never‑ending Revolution in Celestial Sciences
Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler and Newton: the revolution that created astrophysics. For most of human history, the night…
Mars: the Artemis programme as a launchpad for the Red Planet
How similar are Mars and Earth? Let’s look at some key facts — and why all of…
Did Supermassive Black Holes or Galaxies come first?
New insights from JWST reveal how supermassive black holes and their galaxies formed together in the early…
Unveiling Mysteries of the Galactic Core
Complex structures around the galactic core were discovered in 2019 by the XMM-Newton and Chandra space telescopes,…
The Secrets of Europa Revealed by ALMA
Telescopes like ALMA can detect the thermal ‘glow’ emitted even by cold objects like Europa, hence providing…
AGB Stars and the Cosmic Secrets within Presolar Grains
Presolar grains allowed astronomers to make significant discoveries about the evolution of AGB stars through precise chemical…
The Spherical Earth Revelation: Aristotle’s Lunar Eclipse Insight
More than 2300 years ago, in 350 BC, Aristotle noted that the Moon displays different shapes every…
Decoding the Mysteries of Heavy Element Formation in the Cosmos
The notion that heavy element formation predominantly stems from supernovae or neutron star mergers is frequently relayed,…