Joseph Gordon-Levitt to star in `To Reach The Clouds`

Last Updated: Saturday, January 25, 2014, 12:52

Joseph Gordon-Levitt has been approached to star in Robert Zemeckis` new film about high-wire artist Philippe Petit, `To Reach The Clouds`.

Stars born in different sites differ in weight

Last Updated: Sunday, November 10, 2013, 15:23

The Herschel Space Observatory has revealed that the star forming sites across the Milky Way are riddled with filaments.

Magnetic `force field` to shield giant gas cloud during crash with Milky Way Galaxy

Last Updated: Friday, November 1, 2013, 12:58

Astronomers have found that doom may be averted for the Smith Cloud, a gigantic streamer of hydrogen gas that is on a collision course with the Milky Way Galaxy, because of a magnetic field deep in the cloud`s interior may protect it during its plunge.

Milky Way `swallows gas clouds wrapped in magnetic field` to give birth to stars

Last Updated: Friday, November 1, 2013, 12:40

Milky Way may have been swallowing "pills" - clouds of gas with a magnetic wrapper - to keep creating stars for the past eight billion years.

How stars are formed

Last Updated: Tuesday, October 22, 2013, 18:07

A new paper describes the observation-based relationships of the structure and supersonic internal motions of molecular clouds where stars form.

Scientists create Martian clouds on Earth

Last Updated: Tuesday, October 8, 2013, 15:13

Researchers have recreated Mars-like conditions in a 3-story-tall cloud chamber in Germany.

Large `hot` cocoon around small baby star discovered

Last Updated: Saturday, October 5, 2013, 10:41

Scientists using ALMA have discovered a very large hot molecular cloud around a very young star.

Patchy clouds on Jupiter-like planet discovered

Last Updated: Friday, October 4, 2013, 11:06

Astronomers using data from NASA`s Kepler and Spitzer space telescopes were able to create the first cloud map of a planet that is beyond our solar system, a Jupiter-like world known as Kepler-7b.

Scientists map patchy clouds on alien planet Kepler-7b

Last Updated: Tuesday, October 1, 2013, 10:15

Astronomers using data from NASA`s Kepler and Spitzer space telescopes were able to create the first cloud map of a planet that is beyond our solar system, a Jupiter-like world known as Kepler-7b.

Location of giant gas clouds where stars are born being mapped

Last Updated: Thursday, September 12, 2013, 11:19

Astronomers have started mapping the location of the most massive and mysterious objects in our galaxy - the giant gas clouds where new stars are born.

Humans can control weather using lasers, claim scientists

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 28, 2013, 19:06

Humans can manipulate and control the weather by seeding `artificial` clouds, inducing rains and even triggering lightning with the help of lasers, scientists claim.

Spectacular Stellar collisions won`t happen for billions of years from now

Last Updated: Friday, July 12, 2013, 11:10

Astrophysicists from the Astronomical Observatory of the Faculty of Physics at University of Warsaw have found that Stellar collisions between the remains of monstrous stars will not occur until billions of years from now.