Last Updated: Saturday, February 1, 2014, 15:32
Researchers using Kepler space telescope have discovered how circumbinary planets form.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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