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How circumbinary planets form revealed

Last Updated: Saturday, February 1, 2014, 15:32

Researchers using Kepler space telescope have discovered how circumbinary planets form.

Soon, plants to tell what`s wrong with the planet

Last Updated: Thursday, January 23, 2014, 12:13

A EU-funded study is hoping to crack the language of the plants so that we can understand what message they are trying to convey.

`Dwarf planet` in deep space has water

Last Updated: Thursday, January 23, 2014, 01:51

Ceres, a tiny planet in the asteroid belt, spouts water vapour, a finding that strengthens theories that life on Earth was kick-started by a bombardment of space rocks, scientists said today.

Giant planet in Pisces constellation discovered

Last Updated: Friday, January 10, 2014, 15:29

Astronomers have discovered a giant new planet that could be twice the mass of Jupiter located in a star system in the Pisces constellation.

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.

Earth`s `gaseous twin` discovered 200 light years away

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 7, 2014, 12:20

Scientists have come across a new planet, considered Earth`s `twin`, in another solar system that is located 200 light years away.

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.

Mars Express flybys `within touching distance` of Red Planet`s moon

Last Updated: Monday, December 30, 2013, 11:47

Mars Express made its closest fly-by yet of Red Planet`s moon, Phobos, skimming past at only 45 km above its surface, on Dec. 29.

How`s the weather on Mars today?

Last Updated: Sunday, December 22, 2013, 11:54

The Mars One colonization project is planning to broadcast live video from Red Planet`s surface to Earth via a privately built communications satellite and lander to launch as part of an unmanned mission to Mars in 2018.

ISRO warns social networkers on fake profiles on Facebook, Twitter

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 17, 2013, 19:09

The Indian space agency has warned social networkers on the fake profiles of its Mars Orbiter Mission, floating on Facebook and Twitter.

Failed stars near Sun could harbour hidden planet

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 17, 2013, 16:06

Astronomers, who took precise measurements of the closest pair of failed stars to the Sun, have found that the system harbours a third, planetary-mass object.

Mars Orbiter: ISRO to carry out first trajectory correction manoeuvre on December 11

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 10, 2013, 18:27

India’s first interplanetary mission, the Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), will get its first Trajectory Correction Manoeuvre (TCM) on December 11, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said on Monday.