Jayant Narlikar wrote alternative what-if histories, explained difficult scientific theories with funny analogies, and leavened his lectures with jokes and humorous asides. Illustration: Dominic......
The International Astronomical Union (IAU), an organisation which assigns official names and designations to celestial bodies, has recently confirmed the discovery of 18 new asteroids by Indian......
The International Astronomical Union on Thursday set a new definition for the word planet, which excludes Pluto. Scientists at the Union, last week talked of a move to expand the definition of the......
An unknown world might exist beyond the orbit of Pluto, says a new computer model. Emerging reports say the hidden world -- said to be much bigger than Pluto -- based on the model could explain......
Ever tried to count the number of stars on a clear night?According to a study by a team of stargazers based at the Australian National University, there are 70,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (70,000......
The continued rise in interest is a pressure on fiscal, but it is not an easy way out unless the government cuts back on populist measures and sticks to fiscal prudence as laid out in the FRBM,......
If the success French Open and Wimbledon was not enough to send Rafael Nadal into orbit, the Spaniard now has an asteroid named after him! - Nadal now eyes No.1 spot The Rafael Nadal asteroid,......