What began as a mathematical curiosity scorned by leading scientists has become the cornerstone of modern astrophysics, ...

Several ongoing and future missions led or co-led by NASA exploring the cosmos could face serious changes if Congress ...

A new study suggests they may have a ghostly shadow—trailing dark matter spirals hovering above and below them. A team of ...

The billionaire named his son Shivon Zilis after Professor Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. “Look who I bumped into at #AISafetySummit at Bletchley Park, UK. @elonmusk shared that his son with @ ...

Asked about the current troubles, and the cuts in funding for research, Dr Schmidt said, it will hurt Harvard, even though it ...

But a few years later, your grandfather, after whom you’re named,” she looked at Chandrasekhar, “needed my help. When the boys came home to Visakhapatnam for their college holidays one ...

Years later, we glimpse Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar of the Chandrasekhar limit, a way to identify the stars that might someday become black holes, doing his calculations by starlight on the deck of ...

In 1930, Indian astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar proved that they could exist by showing that above a certain density, no force can overcome gravity. It then took another 40 years for ...

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, also a Nobel laureate. Image credit: IANS CHENNAI: More than 120 years ago, a 16-year old student peered into a spectrophotometer at the department of physical sciences ...