End of universe `closer than previously thought`

Last Updated: Friday, December 13, 2013, 10:36

Physicists have long predicted that the universe may one day collapse, and that everything in it will be compressed to a small hard ball, but now researchers have confirmed these predictions, claiming that the risk of a collapse is even greater than previously thought.

Physicists find evidence that universe could be one big hologram

Last Updated: Thursday, December 12, 2013, 15:57

A team of physicists have claimed to have found some of the clearest evidence yet that our Universe could be a hologram.

Early universe was less dusty than believed

Last Updated: Monday, December 9, 2013, 18:10

Dust may be more rare - even 100 times less - than expected in galaxies of the early Universe, a new study has found.

Astronomers glimpse infrastructure of Gamma-ray burst jets

Last Updated: Thursday, December 5, 2013, 16:06

Astronomers have used observations from a novel instrument to look at magnetic fields at the heart of gamma-ray bursts, the most energetic explosions in the universe.

Mystery behind heating of neutron stars unravelled

Last Updated: Monday, December 2, 2013, 15:59

Scientists were pretty sure until now that they knew how the surface of a neutron star - a super dense star that forms when a large star explodes and its core collapses into itself - can heat itself up.

44 million stars and galaxies mapped

Last Updated: Sunday, December 1, 2013, 21:58

Astronomers have created a new catalogue of the universe that covers 35 per cent of the sky and includes 44 million stars and galaxies that have been seen at least twice.

Mission to probe origin of the Universe announced

Last Updated: Friday, November 29, 2013, 22:26

A unique space mission to open up hidden chapters in the history of the Universe was announced Friday that will detect ripples in space time caused by some of the most violent events.

R Chidambaram stresses for India’s participation in global mega-science projects

Last Updated: Friday, November 29, 2013, 20:27

Renowned Indian physicist and nuclear scientist R Chidambaram, stressed for India’s participation in critical science research while speaking at Calcutta University’s annual convocation in Kolkata on Friday.

Space probe Gaia launched to map a billion stars

Last Updated: Wednesday, November 27, 2013, 13:37

Europe`s billion-star surveyor has been launched into space where it will create a highly accurate 3D map of our galaxy.

About 44% people think aliens do exist: Survey

Last Updated: Monday, November 18, 2013, 18:14

There have been many claims and debates about the existence of aliens, also known as ‘extraterrestrial life’ elsewhere in the Universe.

Miss Venezuela is Miss Universe 2013

Last Updated: Monday, November 11, 2013, 09:22

Miss Venezuela Gabriela Isler was crowned Miss Universe 2013 here Saturday. The second place went to Miss Spain Patricia Yurena Rodriguez and third to Miss Ecuador Constanza Baez.