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Full dark-matter jacket helped failed dwarf galaxy survive galactic collision

Last Updated: Monday, May 26, 2014, 11:47

Researchers have said that like a bullet wrapped in a full metal jacket, a high-velocity hydrogen cloud hurtling toward the Milky Way appears to be encased in a shell of dark matter.

High-tech cage to fly rats to ISS

Last Updated: Sunday, May 25, 2014, 16:20

Good news for astro-rats. They will now have a new high-tech cage to fly them to the International Space Station (ISS), courtesy NASA.

Astronaut sows first fresh vegetable in ISS` space `garden`

Last Updated: Saturday, May 24, 2014, 19:32

NASA last week announced that it has activated a plant growth system on the International Space Station.

`Violent` gamma-ray outbursts near supermassive black holes

Last Updated: Saturday, May 24, 2014, 19:08

An international team of astronomers led by Lars Fuhrmann from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, used some of the best single-dish radio telescopes for several years, in combination with NASA`s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, to study the place where high energy outbursts occur.

New findings poke holes in Black Hole `Doughnut` theory

Last Updated: Saturday, May 24, 2014, 18:43

A team of astronomers using NASA`s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) to survey more than 170,000 supermassive black holes have now decided to re-examine a decades-old theory about the varying appearances of these interstellar objects.

Brand new meteor shower may light up Earth`s sky today

Last Updated: Saturday, May 24, 2014, 11:58

Earth will travel through a fresh stream of comet dust early Saturday, possibly creating a gallery of shooting stars for night-time sky-watchers, astronomers said on Friday.

NASA orbiter captures new crater on Mars

Last Updated: Friday, May 23, 2014, 21:39

Researchers have discovered the largest fresh meteor-impact crater on Mars which was firmly documented with before-and-after images captured by NASA`s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).

Will `vintage` sun explorer be saved in nick of time?

Last Updated: Friday, May 23, 2014, 20:32

A “vintage” sun explorer satellite launched in 1978 by NASA to monitor the solar wind is going to fly past earth by mid-June next month.

Aliens are definitely out there: SETI astronomers

Last Updated: Friday, May 23, 2014, 19:18

Aliens definitely exist, as claimed by SETI (Search for extraterrestrial intelligence) astronomers. Reportedly these two astronomers have told the US Congress that the search for extraterrestrial life is "plausible and warrants scientific inquiry" and appealed for continued funding to research life beyond Earth.

Now, broadband connection for space dwellers

Last Updated: Friday, May 23, 2014, 18:04

A data communication technology between earth and moon can provide space dwellers with the connectivity that will enable large data transfers and high-definition video streaming , as claimed by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology`s (MIT) Lincoln Laboratory.