SPACE

At a million km closer to the sun than Mercury, the loner comet's fate as it goes around the sun is unsure.

Jayalakshmi K Feb 25, 2015

Phlegra Montes range in northern hemisphere shows features indicative of past glacial activity.

Jayalakshmi K Feb 23, 2015

New York professor says dark matter interactions could be responsible for mass extinctions.

Hannah Osborne Feb 19, 2015

Star came within 0.8 light years of Earth passing through the Oort cloud, scientists say.

Hannah Osborne Feb 18, 2015

Scientists unable to find brown dwarf that should be orbiting pair of stars V471 Tauri.

Hannah Osborne Feb 18, 2015

Scientists baffled by gigantic cloud which twice appeared over Mars for long periods in 2012

Mark Piggott Feb 16, 2015

The computer code used to generate the clear, multiple images in the film throw light into the visuals near a black hole.

Jayalakshmi K Feb 16, 2015

The stage is now set for ATV's successor which will play an important role in future space flights.

Jayalakshmi K Feb 16, 2015

The 25-year-old snap taken by Voyager 1 showed the Earth as a pale blue dot in the vastness of space.

Jayalakshmi K Feb 14, 2015

Sending out a message instead of waiting for one may not be a wise thing to do and requires discussions, say critics.

Jayalakshmi K Feb 13, 2015

With the same size as Jupiter, but six times the mass, Kepler-432b moves close to its star in an elongated orbit.

Jayalakshmi K Feb 13, 2015

Time-lapse video shows five years of images taken by Nasa's Solar Dynamics Observatory.

Alfred Joyner Feb 12, 2015

The first stars were born 550 million years after the Big Bang says the high precision data.

Jayalakshmi K Feb 12, 2015

Multiple-star system early on in its formation 800-light years from Earth.

Hannah Osborne Feb 11, 2015

Physicists put forward theory that universe has no beginning and no end.

Hannah Osborne Feb 11, 2015

Astronomers hope to connect with potentially inhabitable planets.

Arjun Varma Feb 11, 2015

Using seismic waves, a distinct region within the inner core has been detected.

Jayalakshmi K Feb 10, 2015

Precise measurements of gas and star rotation have shown dark matter around solar system and other areas.

Jayalakshmi K Feb 10, 2015

European Space Agency's Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV) to test automated re-entry systems.

Adam Justice Feb 09, 2015

Archaeologists believe the object is man-made.

Arjun Varma Feb 08, 2015

DARPA's Airborne Launch Assist Space Access program to provide simple, low-cost satellite launch.

Anthony Cuthbertson Feb 06, 2015

In a birthday tribute to Pluto discoverer Clyde Tombaugh, researchers release photos taken by LORRI.

Mary-Ann Russon Feb 05, 2015

The study relied on the Titius-Bode law that gives a mathematical progression to predict planets around stars.

Jayalakshmi K Feb 05, 2015

The US government has taken a tentative step towards allowing commercial development of the moon.

David Sim Feb 03, 2015

Federal Aviation Administration apparently says companies can now 'stake claim' to lunar territory.

Hannah Osborne Feb 03, 2015

Image shows a star shedding outer layers 3,000 light years away and offers glimpse of how our sun will die.

Mary-Ann Russon Feb 03, 2015

Nasa requests $30m for preliminary studies into mission to Jupiter's moon Europa.

Hannah Osborne Feb 03, 2015

Richard Corfield looks at current plans to make money from the moon's resources.

Hannah Osborne Feb 02, 2015

Astrophysicists are not sure what caused the gas to be ejected so early in galaxy formation.

Jayalakshmi K Feb 02, 2015