Dr. Kuruvilla Joseph has been appointed as the first Pro Vice Chancellor of the IIST. A distinguished scientist and academician, Dr. Joseph has served IIST in several pivotal administrative roles, including Registrar and Dean (Academics), contributing significantly to its growth and academic excellence. He is widely acclaimed for his outstanding research contributions, with more than 250 research papers in leading international journals, nine books and several patents to his credit. He has a notable h-index of 66 and citation index of more than 18,000.

A Rajbhasha Conference is being organized as part of the Golden Jubilee Celebrations of the Department of Official Language on July 11, 2025, in GMC Balayogi Indoor Stadium in Gachibowli, Hyderabad. Shri. M. Narasimha Murthy, Scientific Officer – C is nominated to attend this Conference from IIST.

An international team led by astronomers from the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), Thiruvananthapuram, India, have made a remarkable discovery. Radio emission with a special property known as circular polarization (shown in the schematic image as twisted light beam) has been detected near a massive, young forming star.The new data allowed researchers to infer the magnetic field near the protostar to be about 20–35 Gauss, roughly 100 times stronger than Earth’s magnetic field.

Ph. D thesis by Dr. Govind Kumar Sharma has been selected to receive the 2025 Carbon Journal Prize for “an outstanding Ph.D. thesis in carbon materials science and technology'. Govind Kumar Sharma received his Ph.D. degree from the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST) in July 2024, The thesis is titled ‘“Flexible Electrospun Polyacrylonitrile-Based Carbon Nanofiber Composites for Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) Shielding’ and was supervised by Prof. Nirmala Rachel James, Department of Chemistry, IIST.