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

Last Updated: Friday, January 31, 2014, 13:31

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.

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.

NASA launches newest communication satellite

Last Updated: Friday, January 24, 2014, 11:12

NASA`s super-high-flying fleet of communication satellites just got bigger. An unmanned rocket blasted into a chilly, clear sky last night carrying the latest, third-generation Tracking and Data Relay Satellite.

Get ready for biggest light show in the sky

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 15, 2014, 04:28

The NASA`s Hubble Space Telescope has focused its eyes on a dying star that is about to self destruct as a blazing supernova any day now.

Hubble space telescope finds deep sea of small, faint early galaxies

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 8, 2014, 12:39

NASA`s Hubble Space Telescope has found the long-suspected underlying population of galaxies, which produced the bulk of new stars during the universe`s early years.

Exoplanets may be blanketed with clouds

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 1, 2014, 10:40

Scientists using NASA`s Hubble Space Telescope have found that the atmospheres of two of the most common type of planets in the Milky Way galaxy may be blanketed with clouds.

Super star puts on spectacular light show

Last Updated: Wednesday, December 18, 2013, 10:59

Researchers have observed in a NASA Hubble Space Telescope image that bright southern hemisphere star RS Puppis, at the center of the photograph, is swaddled in a gossamer cocoon of reflective dust illuminated by the glittering star.

Water vapour found venting from Jupiter`s moon Europa

Last Updated: Friday, December 13, 2013, 11:17

The Hubble Space Telescope has detected the first strong evidence of water plumes erupting from the icy surface of one of Jupiter`s moons Europa.

Giant Magellan telescope`s third mirror set to be unveiled

Last Updated: Thursday, December 5, 2013, 16:38

The Giant Magellan Telescope`s third primary mirror is going to be unveiled at the University of Arizona`s Steward Observatory Mirror Lab on December 6, 2013.

Jury still out on fate of Comet ISON post `fiery` sun encounter

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 3, 2013, 11:34

Scientists are working to determine and to understand the fate of Comet ISON as it moves away from the sun.

Hubble telescope captures images of star explosion

Last Updated: Saturday, November 9, 2013, 12:47

Hubble Space Telescope has been able to capture a star explosion, forming supernova SN 2013ek, in spiral galaxy NGC 6984.

Astronomers `dumbfounded` by six-tailed asteroid

Last Updated: Friday, November 8, 2013, 10:10

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have spotted a freakish asteroid with six comet-like tails of dust streaming from its body like spokes on a wheel, scientists said on Thursday.