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New galaxy glittering with hundreds of X-rays discovered

Last Updated: Wednesday, June 4, 2014, 10:04

Researchers observed million seconds of observing time with NASA`s Chandra X-ray Observatory and discovered a spiral galaxy similar to the Milky Way glittering with hundreds of X-ray points of light.

New pic reveals details of violent collisions involving at least four galaxy clusters

Last Updated: Wednesday, June 4, 2014, 10:01

Astronomers using the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) and the Chandra X-Ray Observatory have produced a spectacular image that reveals new details of violent collisions involving at least four clusters of galaxies.

Space probe captures new images of sunspots

Last Updated: Tuesday, June 3, 2014, 15:14

Multi-wavelength observations of sunspots with the 1.6-meter New Solar Telescope at Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) in California and aboard NASA`s IRIS spacecraft have produced new images of high-speed plasma flows and eruptions extending from the Sun`s surface to the outermost layer of the solar atmosphere, the corona.

Star set to swallow two exoplanets in 130 million and 155 million years

Last Updated: Tuesday, June 3, 2014, 10:40

Astronomers have said that the planets Kepler-56b and Kepler-56c are going to be swallowed by their star in a short time by astronomical standards.

New planet found that weighs 17 times more than ours

Last Updated: Tuesday, June 3, 2014, 09:53

Astronomers have discovered a new type of planet - a rocky world weighing 17 times as much as Earth.

Astronomers discover type of rocky planet much bigger than Earth

Last Updated: Tuesday, June 3, 2014, 05:17

Astronomers have discovered a new type of rocky planet beyond the solar system that weighs more than 17 times as much as Earth while being just over twice the size, scientists said on Monday.

Trajectory correction of Mars mission likely by June 11

Last Updated: Monday, June 2, 2014, 14:57

Indian Space Research Organisation is likely to perform its next trajectory correction manoeuvre on its Mars Orbiter mission on June 11.

ESA satellite to remove space junk

Last Updated: Monday, June 2, 2014, 14:51

A new European mission aims to rendezvous a satellite with the hazardous space debris to render it harmless by netting it like fish.

NASA to test giant saucer on earth for Mars landing

Last Updated: Monday, June 2, 2014, 14:41

What will it take to land heavier spacecraft on Mars? How will engineers slow large payloads travelling at supersonic speeds in the thin Martian atmosphere?

Aliens have already decided we`re stupid, says astrophysicist

Last Updated: Monday, June 2, 2014, 10:41

Astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson has said that alien contact, which is the next frontier - may have already come and gone.