The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's Akatsuki mission orbiting Venus was declared dead last week after engineers spent more than a year trying to get in touch with the sile ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is expected to reappear soon after moving out of the Sun’s glare, allowing astronomers and skywatchers to observe its path and study its rare interstellar origins.

According to ancient myths, Dionysus, the ancient Greek god of wine, invaded India long before Alexander the Great was born.

Scientists at Tel Aviv University have developed a new way to investigate dark matter by studying faint radio waves from the Universe’s earliest era, known as the cosmic dark ages. Their research ...

Karen Wigen is Frances and Charles Field Professor in History at Stanford University. Speaking with Srijana Mitra Das at Times Evoke, she discusses th ...

Imagine digging into a quiet village field and finding signs of a whole city that existed more than 2,000 years ago. That’s what happened in Keeladi — a small village near Madurai that is now ...

Rangoli is an Indian art form to bring good luck, prosperity, and to welcome guests. Diwali is India’s most important festival of the year—a time to celebrate the triumph of light over darkness, ...

For centuries, people have blamed the full moon for stirring up madness. Folklore suggested that its glow could spark mania ...

Astronomers have identified 3I/ATLAS, an ancient, ice-rich interstellar comet potentially older than our solar system.

Physicist Brian Cox has confirmed that Comet 3I/ATLAS — an interstellar traveller predating our Sun — is a natural object composed of ice, dust, and carbon dioxide, and not of extraterrestrial design.

Indian scientists are analysing fresh data on 3I/Atlas after early readings suggested the interstellar visitor was detected before NASA’s report.