India has unveiled plans to build two new optical-infrared telescopes and a dedicated solar telescope in the Himalayan desert ...

In space science, India is going from strength to strength, from the recent Moon landing of Chandrayaan-3 to the launch of the solar observing satellite Aditya-L1. That growth also extends to the ...

The new ones – National Large Solar Telescope and National Large Optical-Near Infrared Telescope – will offer Indian ...

Indian students, although curious and fascinated by astronomy, struggle to understand the basic concepts of the subject, ...

Pune/Bengaluru: India's expanding contributions to astronomy research appear to have prompted a significant policy and ...

Pune: A baseline survey to assess astronomy learning in Indian schools has found that even though a majority of the 2,038 students of Class IX surveye.

Union Budget 2026 announces 4 major telescope projects in India. These new facilities will boost astronomy research, solar and deep-space observation and public science engagement.

Astronomers from India have discovered the second farthest spiral galaxy in the depths of the universe, using the powerful James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), and have named it ‘Alaknanda’. The galaxy ...

Only about one third of students could correctly identify basic astronomical distance scales, with many unaware that stars ...

The Union Budget 2026–27 has introduced a landmark era for Indian astrophysics, signaling a shift from routine satellite missions to "discovery-class" science. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s ...

Researchers from the University of Leicester have been involved in the development of the first ever Indian satellite dedicated to astronomical observations, including of black holes, which will be ...

The study, the first large-scale assessment of astronomy learning in India, highlights both enthusiasm for astronomy and deep ...