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 spies a star set to go supernova

Last Updated: Saturday, January 11, 2014, 17:24

The Hubble telescope has chanced upon a giant star ready to explode in a spectacular style, according to NASA.

Hubble looks into star formation inside Tarantula Nebula

Last Updated: Friday, January 10, 2014, 13:30

NASA`s Hubble Space Telescope, with its near-infrared vision, has uncovered a dazzling new view deep inside the Tarantula Nebula.

Hubble spots spiral galaxy with double nucleus at its core

Last Updated: Friday, January 10, 2014, 13:16

Hubble has shown new image of the spiral galaxy Messier 83, otherwise known as the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy, which is thought to have a double nucleus lurking at its core.

Hubble captures star formation in spiral galaxy 15 mn light-years away

Last Updated: Friday, January 10, 2014, 12:18

The full beauty of nearby barred spiral galaxy M83 has been unveiled in all of its glory in a Hubble Space Telescope mosaic image.

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.

NASA`s Hubble discovers clouds on alien planet

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 1, 2014, 18:37

NASA`s Hubble telescope has discovered clouds in the atmosphere of a super-Earth type planet 40-light years away, providing the first-ever weather forecast for a planet outside our solar system.

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.

New technique to measure mass of exoplanets

Last Updated: Friday, December 20, 2013, 20:16

MIT scientists have developed a new technique to measure the mass of exoplanets, which can help determine if any of these far-off worlds are habitable.