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Composite image showing the discovery of the most distant known star, Icarus. Credit: NASA/ESA/P Kelly(University of Minnesota)

Hubble Telescope Detects The Farthest Individual Star Ever

The Wire Staff 04/04/2018

A rare cosmic alignment led to the detection of...

Stephen Hawking (left; source: hawking.org.uk) and Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri (source: YouTube)

The Little Known Calcutta Scientist Whose Shoulders Hawking Stood On

Aswin Sekhar 29/03/2018

Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri described the dynamics of light’s motion...

Reuters-Hawking

Watch: Stephen Hawking, the Cosmic Bard, Traveller and Poet

The Wire Staff 14/03/2018

Stephen Hawking (1941-2018) was one of the most popular...

Stephen Hawking taking a zero-gravity flight in 2007. Credit: Jim Campbell/Aero-News Network/Wikimedia Commons

Stephen Hawking, the Cosmic Bard

Vasudevan Mukunth 14/03/2018

'A Brief History of Time' was a remarkable piece...

Donald Lynden-Bell. Source: Twitter

Donald Lynden-Bell: A Legacy of Astronomical Excellence

Aswin Sekhar 15/02/2018

He is best known for his work on the...

Illustration of a gamma ray burst in space. Credit: ESO/A. Roquette, CC BY-SA

Simulating the Universe’s Brightest Events in a Lab

Gianluca Sarri 16/01/2018

One idea for the origin of gamma-ray bursts, the...

Complex nature. Photo by Alan L/Flickr via Aeon

Black Holes Are Simpler Than Forests and Science Has Its Limits

Martin Rees 05/12/2017

We would be unduly anthropocentric to believe that a...