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Outer space phenomena visible from home in July

Last Updated: Wednesday, July 24, 2013, 19:45

Amateur astronomer Aadil Desai tells us what to watch out for in between the gaps in the clouds during July.

It`s snowing in an infant solar system!

Last Updated: Friday, July 19, 2013, 10:16

Astronomers have taken the first-ever image of a snow line in an infant solar system.

Alien probes may have visited our solar system before dawn of man

Last Updated: Monday, July 15, 2013, 11:55

Researchers have predicted that an interstellar probe fleet - travelling at 10 percent of speed of light - could survey the entire Milky Way galaxy in 10 million years.

Space penetrator passes test on ice

Last Updated: Saturday, July 13, 2013, 14:31

Engineers in the UK have finished testing a projectile technology which they believe could be used to explore the Solar System.

Earth once had two moons: Scientists

Last Updated: Sunday, July 7, 2013, 16:24

Earth once had two moons, the one visible today and a much smaller `twin` that crashed to form one lunar body, scientists claim.

Milky Way bigger than thought?

Last Updated: Friday, June 28, 2013, 13:58

Our Milky Way galaxy may be much bigger than previously thought, a new study has found.

NASA`s Voyager 1 craft enters unfamiliar space in solar system

Last Updated: Friday, June 28, 2013, 09:47

NASA`s Voyager 1 has reached a strange new region at the outer reaches of the solar system, a new research has said, suggesting that it has entered interstellar space.

Dead stars give a glimpse of what the Sun will look like in future

Last Updated: Friday, May 10, 2013, 12:00

Scientists have studied two dead stars, which they say are giving us a glimpse as to how our Solar System might look like a few billion years from now.

Water on Moon and Earth may have come from same meteorites

Last Updated: Friday, May 10, 2013, 11:41

Researchers have found that the water found on the moon, like that on Earth, came from small meteorites called carbonaceous chondrites in the first 100 million years or so after the solar system formed.

Experts assess how to save Earth from asteroid hits

Last Updated: Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 18:24

Experts have assessed what needs to be done when an asteroid approaches earth, like the one in February, when one slammed into our atmosphere and exploded high over Russia`s Ural region, injuring hundreds.

Life did exist before Earth, claim scientists

Last Updated: Sunday, April 21, 2013, 15:08

Researchers say life first appeared about 10 billion years ago - long before Earth, which is believed to be 4.5 billion years old.

New math method improves study of evolution of solar system

Last Updated: Saturday, April 13, 2013, 12:49

In order to improve a simulation designed to study the evolution of the solar system through time, numerical mathematical methods have been developed at the Computing Faculty of the University of the Basque Country.