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Fast-moving pulsar firing record-breaking jet spotted

Last Updated: Wednesday, February 19, 2014, 16:02

NASA`s Chandra X-ray Observatory has spotted a fast-moving pulsar escaping from a supernova remnant while spewing out a record-breaking jet of high-energy particles.

NASA`s Hubble telescope measures rotation rate of galaxy

Last Updated: Wednesday, February 19, 2014, 15:44

Astronomers for the first time have precisely measured the rotation rate of a galaxy based on the clock-like movement of its stars.

Scientists probe meteor link to Argentina explosion

Last Updated: Wednesday, February 19, 2014, 10:14

Scientists said Tuesday that a meteor crashing to earth could explain reports of an explosion in the Argentine countryside some 350 kilometers (250 miles) northwest of Buenos Aires.

Scientists find why Einstein changed his view of the universe

Last Updated: Tuesday, February 18, 2014, 19:39

Scientists have found why physicist Albert Einstein, who for long believed that the universe was static, changed his mind and accepted the modern cosmological view that the cosmos is expanding.

Earth marks close encounter with enormous asteroid

Last Updated: Tuesday, February 18, 2014, 10:10

An asteroid estimated to be the size of three football fields whizzed close to Earth on Monday, roughly a year after one exploded over Russia and injured 1,200 people.

NASA`s LADEE sends its first images of moon to Earth

Last Updated: Monday, February 17, 2014, 15:02

US space agency NASA`s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) has beamed back view of the lunar surface back to Earth for the first time.

N-bombs to destroy earth-bound asteroids in space!

Last Updated: Sunday, February 16, 2014, 18:25

Nuclear bombs - itself a threat to the humanity - to save the earth from dangerous space rocks?

International Space Station braces for its coldest spot

Last Updated: Sunday, February 16, 2014, 18:22

NASA scientist are on the job to create the coldest spot aboard the International Space Station (ISS) that would help them unravel the secrets behind interesting and novel quantum phenomena.

Defunct Russian reconnaissance satellite may hit Earth today

Last Updated: Sunday, February 16, 2014, 12:51

Portions of Russia`s defunct Kosmos-1220 satellite might come crashing back to the planet on Sunday.

NASA`s IBEX reveals cosmic roadmap to galactic magnetic field

Last Updated: Saturday, February 15, 2014, 18:08

NASA `s Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) has helped paint picture of the magnetic system beyond the solar wind.