Chandrayaan-2 spectrometer finds rich sodium deposits on moon for first time

The X-ray spectrometer 'CLASS' on the Chandrayaan-2 orbiter has mapped an abundance of sodium on the moon for the first time, according to the Indian Space Research Organisation. Chandrayaan-1......

The road to the discovery of 'Saraswati'

Saraswati spreads across 600 million light years and is four billion light years away from Earth.Rediff.com's Utkarsh Mishra reports. A 15 year study by a group of Indian scientists has resulted......

Indian scientists discover 'Saraswati' -- a supercluster of galaxies

A team of Indian astronomers has discovered an extremely large supercluster of galaxies -- as big as 20 million billion suns -- which they have named Saraswati, Pune-based Inter University Centre......

'Iceball' planet about the same mass as Earth found

Scientists have discovered a new, frozen planet that has the same mass as that of Earth and is located 13,000 light-years away. The finding may help understand the types of planetary systems that......