observatories

A weird asteroid has just gotten a little weirder. We have known for a while that asteroid 3200 Phaethon acts like a comet. It brightens and forms a tail when it's near the Sun, and it is the source of the annual Geminid meteor shower, even…

The star Betelgeuse appears as a brilliant, ruby-red, twinkling spot of light in the upper right shoulder of the winter constellation Orion the Hunter. But when viewed close up, astronomers know it as a seething monster with a 400-day-long…

India is going to build 35 more earthquake observatories by end of this year and 100 more such observatories in next five years, said Minister of State for Earth Sciences Jitendra Singh on Saturday. Singh pointed out…