Building blocks of life found in an alien star-forming cloud 200,000 light years away
The Large Magellanic Cloud, just outside the Milky Way where stars are born, has the capacity to also build life.
How destructive will a space war be? It could wipe out everything in orbit quickly
War in space will not look as good as Star Wars, rather, it will simply wipe out communications, destabilise economies and create clouds of high speed debris.
Mars' tiny potato-shaped moons captured facing each other in stunning Nasa image
Nasa's Odyssey spacecraft was flying 5,615km away from Phobos and nearly 20,000km away from Deimos when the images were captured.
Astronomers may find aliens in the coming decades but how will they know their intentions?
In a recent Reddit AMA session, futurist Michio Kaku detailed how the first contact with alien life could turn out.
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Nasa captures Phoenix Mars Lander after 10 years, finds nothing but dust
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Watch: Beautiful time-lapse sequence shows Juno probe move across Jupiter's transforming South Pole
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Scientists reveal how the most intense explosions on the Sun are stopped by solar magnetic cage
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The moon has more water than previously thought but is it enough to sustain a lunar colony?
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A 'happy' spacesuit? Scientists working on revolutionary new tech to keep astronauts stress-free in space
The Nasa-backed project could ultimately improve efficiency of the astronauts on deep-space missions.
Scientists just measured the Universe's expansion rate but we need new physics to explain it
Scientists used Nasa's Hubble telescope to make the most precise measurements of the Universe's expansion rate till date.
Revolutionary Nasa technique captures melting Antarctic ice like never before
The seven-year-long work on the system shows that West Antarctic ice sheets are melting at a rapid rate.
Space Launch System: Watch Nasa fire up its next big rocket engine at highest-ever thrust capacity
The first mission of the vehicle will be an uncrewed flight to the far side of the moon sometime in 2020.
Nasa's billion dollar 'mobile launchpad' is leaning and is likely to launch only one SLS rocket
Nasa spent eight years modifying a structure that took only two years to build.
Birth of a supernova: This locksmith peeked into the sky and captured a star as it exploded
Victor Buso was testing a new telescope camera mounted on the top of his home when he made the unique discovery.
Jupiter's Great Red Spot will disappear in the next 10 years
The storm – the largest in the solar system – is about to calm down and will eventually cease to exist.
Nasa's Orion deepspace spacesuit will have a built-in toilet
Astronauts can live in the suit for six days without taking it off. Food and waste will remain in the suit.
The final frontier: This is where Nasa's Cassini spacecraft plunged and burnt into pieces
Cassini was more than 600,000km away from Saturn when the images for the mosaic were taken.
Why Nasa's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is on 'precautionary standby'
The spacecraft's original mission was just for two years and has seen five extensions.
Nasa's Juno captures Jupiter's ravaging northern storms in stunning new image
The wide-angle image taken by Juno shows the northern area of Jupiter's north temperate belt and cloud formations swirling over it.
Monstrous black hole captured inside a giant 40-light-year-wide 'space doughnut'
The giant void is a supermassive black hole located at the centre of spiral galaxy M77.
Nasa celebrates Opportunity rover's 5,000th day on Mars, shares its first full selfie
Nasa planned a 90-day long mission for the rover in 2004 but Opportunity denied giving up and is still doing a great job on the Red Planet.
US Air Force plans doomsday satellites to ensure communications remain if nuclear war breaks out
If nuclear war wipes out communications, the AEHF satellites will continue to work for the US government.
Can Elon Musk's 'spacefaring' Roadster come back? Scientists see a possibility of collision with Earth
The car has been marked as a 'Near Earth Object' by Nasa and is now moving towards the asteroid belt.
Nasa's Opportunity rover captures 'surprising' Earth-like rock features on Mars
The features looked very similar to formations found on volcanic slopes in Hawaii, according to the space agency.
Will alien life discovery create panic among humans? Study shows we'd rather be 'upbeat about it'
Researchers have analysed news of potential alien life discovery to understand the reaction of the human race.
Distant supermassive black holes are expanding so fast, they are actually outstripping star growth
Till date, scientists thought that black holes in distant galaxies grew in tandem with stars.
Nasa's asteroid hunter captures beautiful Earth-Moon pair from 40 million miles away
The spacecraft was travelling at 19,000 miles per hour when it took the spectacular cosmic photo.
A dark tornado? Nasa's Hubble captures Neptune's mysterious 'shrinking' storm for the first time
When it first appeared, the whole thing was big enough to stretch across the Atlantic Ocean from Boston to Portugal but now it is way smaller.
Nearly 100 new exoplanets have been discovered using Nasa's Kepler spacecraft in record haul
Thanks to Kepler, we now know that planets around other stars are the rule rather than the exception.
SpaceX's Starman spotted cruising through space at incredible speeds by astrophotographer
The Tesla is headed for an orbit between Mars and the asteroid belt.
Nasa's Hubble photo reveals breathtaking beauty of galaxy embracing baby stars 20 million light years away
The spiral galaxy's swirling arms are where new stars are born, whose high temperatures make them shine a bright blue.
Alien sculpture? Rare 4 billion-year-old meteorite sold off at record-breaking price
The 70-pound meteorite looks like an ellipsoid cosmic sculpture with "numerous sockets and perforations".
Search for extraterrestrial life hampered as cryptocurrency miners hog the tech alien hunters need
GPU manufacturers are scrambling to deal with rapidly rising demand for graphics cards.
Our neighbouring Andromeda galaxy might not be as big and deadly as we thought, study reveals
The two galaxies are moving towards each other and will collide after some four billion years.
SpaceX Falcon Heavy's first customer will be the US Air Force - find out what they will launch
SpaceX has an installed capacity to build about 400 rocket engines per year, that is, over 100 launches by 2020.
Star Wars: China and Russia are developing space weapons warn US intelligence
A report by the US intelligence agencies has warned that China and Russia are developing space weapons to be used against satellites in future conflicts.
Scientists have observed the mysterious origins of the Northern Lights for the first time
Researchers have not been able to fully explain the physical processes that produce the colourful aurorae.
Nasa's sun-watching satellite captures incredible photo of a total solar eclipse in space
The total solar eclipse captured by Nasa's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), kicked off this year's eclipse season.
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