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Now, you too can become a planetary nursery finding `detective`

Last Updated: Friday, January 31, 2014, 15:25

NASA has begun inviting the public to help astronomers discover embryonic planetary systems hidden among data from the agency`s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission through a new website, DiskDetective.org.

NASA sued by California man over mysterious rock on Mars

Last Updated: Thursday, January 30, 2014, 19:37

The US space agency, NASA, has been sued by a California man for not investigating a mysterious rock, discovered by Mars Opportunity rover, a couple of weeks ago.

Jupiter may have once migrated closer to the Sun

Last Updated: Thursday, January 30, 2014, 15:44

MIT scientists have developed a map of more than 100,000 asteroids throughout the solar system which suggests that Jupiter may have once drifted much closer to the Sun.

NASA to make water on the moon and oxygen on Mars

Last Updated: Thursday, January 30, 2014, 14:05

NASA is planning missions to show how to make oxygen on Mars and water on the moon.

Weather map of brown dwarf can help shed light on distant planets

Last Updated: Thursday, January 30, 2014, 11:45

Researchers have mapped the surface of a brown dwarf - an object larger than a planet and smaller than a star - for the first time.

Unmanned NASA Rover photographs `bizarre` UFO on Mars

Last Updated: Thursday, January 30, 2014, 11:42

An unmanned NASA Rover has captured images of a celestial object, believed to be a UFO, on Mars.

New space map shows that `rogue` asteroids may be more common than believed

Last Updated: Thursday, January 30, 2014, 11:39

A new map developed by researchers from MIT and the Paris Observatory charts the size, composition, and location of more than 100,000 asteroids throughout the solar system, and has shown that rogue asteroids are actually more common than previously thought.

Mystery of ultra-compact, burned-out galaxies solved

Last Updated: Thursday, January 30, 2014, 11:37

Astronomers using NASA`s Hubble Space Telescope and Europe`s Herschel Space Observatory have pieced together the evolutionary sequence of compact elliptical galaxies, which erupted and burned out when the universe was only 3 billion years old.

Massive galaxies were formed by collisions billions of years after Big Bang

Last Updated: Thursday, January 30, 2014, 11:34

A new research from the Niels Bohr Institute has shown that massive galaxies were formed by explosive star formation that was set in motion by the collision of galaxies a few billion years after the Big Bang.

Mars `jelly doughnut` clearly alien fungus: Astrobiologist

Last Updated: Thursday, January 30, 2014, 10:06

A self-described astrobiologist and author has asked a federal judge to force NASA to look more closely into the rock that suddenly appeared on Mars rover Opportunity`s field of vision earlier this month; he`s claimed that the rock is an alien fungus.