Galaxy

“We want to know how the universe evolved, how we came to this earth and what is our purpose. In fact, some of the chemicals including iron, carbon, that are found in our body can be made only in the interiors of stars,” says Dr Vithal Tilvi.

Standing atop Mt. Saraswati in the Hanle Valley of Changthang, Ladakh, at nearly 14,800 feet above the mean sea level is the Indian Space Observatory—the third highest optical observatory in the world. And this is its story.

In a report released by ISRO, a team of scientists from the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmedabad, recently discovered an exoplanet. How and why does it matter?

The development has been hailed as a significant breakthrough in space research by the scientific community.