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......

NASA telescopes spot 'missing link between planets and stars'

In a first-of-its-kind collaboration, National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Spitzer and Swift space telescopes have joined forces to unveil an elusive brown dwarf (external......