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Orbital Sciences` Antares rocket set for blast-off

Orbital Sciences` Antares rocket set for blast-off

Last Updated: Thursday, January 9, 2014, 18:00

Orbital Sciences Corporation has scheduled the launch of Antares rocket from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on Thursday.

New celestial object blurs line between planets and brown dwarfs

Last Updated: Thursday, January 9, 2014, 15:06

A new celestial object, located nearly 500 light years away from the Sun, has challenged traditional understandings about how planets and stars form.

NASA`s Swift clicks images of X-ray action at Milky Way`s core

Last Updated: Thursday, January 9, 2014, 11:33

Recent observations by NASA`s Swift spacecraft have provided scientists a unique glimpse into the activity at the center of Milky Way galaxy and led to the discovery of a rare celestial entity which may help them test predictions of Albert Einstein`s theory of general relativity.

Dwarf galaxies could help reveal supermassive black holes` origin

Last Updated: Thursday, January 9, 2014, 11:31

Astronomers have discovered more than 100 small, dwarf galaxies with characteristics indicating that they harbor massive black holes feeding on surrounding gas; this could help resolve the question as to how black holes originated and grew in the early universe.

Gas cloud set to collide with supermassive black hole at Milky Way`s core

Last Updated: Thursday, January 9, 2014, 11:29

Astronomers have discovered that a mysterious gas cloud about three times the mass of Earth is spiraling towards the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way`s core.

`Super-Earths` have Earth-like climate, life next?

`Super-Earths` have Earth-like climate, life next?

Last Updated: Thursday, January 9, 2014, 11:36

Super-Earths or massive terrestrial planets dotting our galaxy the Milky Way, may haveEmore earth-like climate then scientists have ever thought.

NASA extends space station life to 2024

Last Updated: Thursday, January 9, 2014, 01:56

The International Space Station will operate for an additional four years, or until 2024, the US space agency said.

India`s human space flight programme is at the beginning: Radhakrishnan

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 8, 2014, 22:29

Even as the country is rejoicing over the successful launch of the Mars Orbiter Mission in November, 2013, ISRO Chairman K Radhakrishnan said Wednesday that Indian human space flight programme is at the “beginning stage”.

Scientists develop laser that could help find smaller planets

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 8, 2014, 21:46

Scottish scientists are developing a new kind of laser that could help astronomers to find small Earth-like planets outside our solar system.

ESA`s billion star-hunter telescope enters orbit

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 8, 2014, 19:18

Europe`s billion-star hunting telescope has successfully entered its operational orbit to gather data for the most accurate 3D map yet of our Milky Way galaxy, the European Space Agency (ESA) said.