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Russia rebuffs US on extending life of space station

Last Updated: Wednesday, May 14, 2014, 21:57

Russia has no intention of prolonging the use of the International Space Station after 2020, as the US is proposing, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitri Rogozin said here Tuesday.

NASA finds mysterious hole appearing on solar surface

Last Updated: Wednesday, May 14, 2014, 03:03

NASA scientists have found a square `hole` appearing on the surface of the Sun.

Why `starbursts` take place when galaxies collide

Last Updated: Tuesday, May 13, 2014, 19:36

Researchers have for the first time explained a long standing mystery: why surges of star formation (so called `starbursts`) take place when galaxies collide.

Primeval lava flows formed Mars` massive canyons, not wate

Last Updated: Tuesday, May 13, 2014, 19:32

A geoscientist has said that primeval lava flows may have formed Mars ` massive canyons and gorge systems, as water was far too scarce on the red planet to have cut these gigantic valleys into the landscape.

Mysterious `spokes` in Saturn`s rings still visible

Last Updated: Tuesday, May 13, 2014, 19:28

The mysterious feature in Saturn`s darkest B ring called `spokes` are still clearly visible in the planet.

NASA spacecraft captures new amazing `Earthrise` photos

Last Updated: Monday, May 12, 2014, 01:29

NASA`s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has released pictures of 21st version of an amazing `Earthrise` as seen from the Moon.

NASA recreates cosmic dust in lab

Last Updated: Sunday, May 11, 2014, 17:50

NASA scientists have for the first time reproduced tiny particles of dust that are known to accumulate around red giant stars.

Call for control of space debris

Last Updated: Saturday, May 10, 2014, 15:50

People are working on the real-life problem of orbiting space debris that was dramatised in the Oscar-winning film `Gravity`, and are trying to extend the public attention created by the movie.

Globular clusters rotate around common axis

Last Updated: Saturday, May 10, 2014, 14:16

While studying some of the oldest star clusters in our galaxy, astronomers from the University of Texas at Austin and Germany`s Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) found that the stars at the centers of these clusters are rotating around a common axis.