One of the darkest planets ever observed eats 99% of nearby starlight

A new planet has been spotted spinning fast around a yellow dwarf star in the Leo constellation that is almost entirely black. It is so dark that almost 99 percent of its hosts' starlight is simply absorbed into its dark, hazy atmosphere.

Apr 25, 2018

Watch: Hubble footage of 2 galaxies crashing into each other

Two spiral galaxies, about 80 million light-years away, is crashing into each other in a slow, gradual merger that will last millions of years. This Hubble footage combines visible light with infrared and X-ray wavelengths to offer the best possible view of this slow dance of the cosmos.

Apr 24, 2018

Trapped by gravity? Super-Earth aliens could be imprisoned in their own planets

Life is likely to flourish in super-Earths around the universe as long as they fall within their star's habitable zone, but their large mass will make spaceflight nearly impossible because large planets have excessively strong levels of gravity.

Apr 24, 2018

Uranus smells like rotten eggs- gas giant has hydrogen sulphide rich atmosphere

The seventh planet and third gas giant of the Solar System is also probably the stinkiest. Researchers have found that the cloud tops of the planet is dominated by hydrogen sulphide gas, not ammonia like Jupiter and Saturn.

Apr 24, 2018

From Chandrayaan-2 to GSAT-7A, ISRO set for a busy launch season

The Indian Space Research Organization is set to launch five satellites -- GSAT-11, GSAT-29, GSAT-7A, Chandrayaan-2, and Risat-2A -- in the next few months. These satellites will reportedly help the forces secure the land and sea and aid them when it comes to guarding the country's borders.

Apr 23, 2018

World's first trillionaires will make their fortune mining asteroids in space

Space mining is the next big industry that has the potential to yield gargantuan profits because there are massive stores of precious resources and metals that are simply waiting to be grabbed by those who can reach there first.

Apr 23, 2018

NASA's women scientists rank space movies from worst to best - the list

Scientists at NASA are fans of film, more so when they are based in space - here is a ranking of what real space engineers think of space movies.

Apr 22, 2018

NASA to begin work on Moon-based gateway to deep space next year

A space station near the moon will work as a docking and resupply point for human missions exploring deep space.

Apr 22, 2018

How NASA plans to look inside Mars with its next lander

A heat probe, a tungsten hammer, and a seismograph will give astronomers a good look inside the red planet.

Apr 20, 2018

NASA releases breathtaking image depicting a star birth on Hubble's 28th anniversary

This unique and breathtaking image was captured happening at the center of the Lagoon Nebula, a place where stars are born.

Apr 20, 2018

SpaceX launches NASA's TESS to hunt for alien worlds and habitable planets

TESS will look for exoplanets for the next two years, covering 85 percent of the sky and filtering out planets between 30 and 300 light years away.

Apr 19, 2018

Top 5 flat Earth conspiracies

According to a suprising amount of people, the Earth is flat and everyone else is wrong. Here are some of the crazy consipiracies that flat-Eathers belive.

Apr 18, 2018

Watch 350,000 stars over the Anglo-Australian telescope

An international team of astronomers has revealed the DNA of more than 350,000 stars which might help find the siblings of the Sun, according to the GALAH survey launched in late 2013. Music: Space Jam by Bobby Cole/Audioblocks

Apr 18, 2018

What happens to human body in microgravity of Mars and Moon

Mars has less gravity and oxygen than the Earth. So, humans will have weaker muscles and inactivity will further stress spacefarers' body.

Apr 18, 2018

Diamond encrusted asteroid that fell on Earth came from failed, lost planet

In the early years of the Solar System, when planets were being born, one didn't survive and now we have diamonds from it.

Apr 18, 2018