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......
Renowned radio astronomer and scientist Govind Swarup died on Monday night in a private hospital in Pune, Maharashtra following illness, the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics said in a......
Even after five decades of use, the telescope at Ooty that Dr Govind Swarup designed and built continues to be the largest single frequency radio telescope in the world, notes Hari Pulakkat.......
An unknown object in the nearby galaxy -- M82 -- is sending out radio waves, an incident which has never happened in the universe before. Researchers at the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics......
China on Sunday commissioned the world's largest radio telescope which has a 4,450-panel reflector as large as 30 football pitches, boosting the global hunt for extraterrestrial life. Hundreds of......