Earth just narrowly escaped being hit by an asteroid...AGAIN!

This asteroid is dubbed 2017 BH30, it is equal to a pickup truck's size and the closest encounter of the asteroid with Earth occurred at 0459 GMT on January 30, 2017 (2359 EST on January 29 2017)

Jan 31, 2017

Alpha Centauri mission: Here's how researchers plan to explore the closest star system to Earth

With current technology it would take an object millennia to reach the Alpha Centauri system, but with the development of light sail technology that time could be reduced to just decades

Jan 31, 2017

How India plans to break Russia's record by launching 104 satellites at one go; NASA had sent 29

India's ISRO is planning to send 104 satellites into the orbit at one go and break the record set by Russia.

Jan 30, 2017

Presence of methane and water discovered on exoplanet GJ 1132b, and you know what that means...cows!

Exoplanet GJ 1132b orbits an M-Class Red Dwarf star, which are common in in the Milky Way galaxy. This oven-hot exoplanet is 1.2 times the size of Earth and has a diameter 50% larger.

Jan 30, 2017

Alien planets orbiting too close to their stars could find their moons going rogue!

More than 3,400 alien worlds have been discovered by researchers outside our solar system over two decades.

Jan 30, 2017

Declassified CIA documents reveal 6 UFO sightings in India, Nepal and Bhutan

CIA had earlier declassified over 930,000 documents and made them available online.

Jan 29, 2017

Human civilisation can thrive on Mars within a century, says Japanese astronaut Naoko Yamazaki

Naoko Yamazaki, the second Japanese woman astronaut, speaks about space progress and human civilisation taking place in space.

Jan 28, 2017

UFO Sighting: Mysterious flying objects spotted along US-Mexico border [VIDEO]

A fleet of seven to eight UFOs was flying right over the border control post at Tijuana, a border city in Mexico just south of California.

Jan 28, 2017

Giant exoplanets may grow even larger with time, researchers reveal!

Hot Jupiters are exoplanets that orbit their parent star at a distance far closer than Mercury does with our Sun. Their size is comparable to the gas giants (Jupiter and Saturn) in our solar system.

Jan 28, 2017

Nibiru Apocalypse Now! Earth will be destroyed this October, claims conspiracy theorist

As per the belief of conspiracy theorists, hundreds of years ago, the orbits of other planets have been destroyed by Nibiru's gravitational impact.

Jan 27, 2017

New findings reveal that the universe is expanding surprisingly faster than we thought!

The new expansion rate of the universe is found to be 71.9 kilometers (44.7 miles) per second per megaparsec (1 megaparsec = 3.26 million light-years).

Jan 27, 2017

Video diagram shows strong gravitational lensing effect

Gravitational lensing is when objects with large masses such as galaxies or clusters of galaxies warp the spacetime surrounding them in such a way that they can create multiple images of background objects.

Jan 26, 2017

NASA's NuSTAR closer to solving the mystery of the 'Chameleon Supernova'

Perceptions regarding the characteristics and classification of supernovas has been cast in doubt since the discovery of supernova, SN 2014C, in 2014

Jan 25, 2017

Clusters of tiny dwarf galaxies discovered; give insights into creation of universe

Data from Sloan Digital Sky Survey was used by University of Virginia scientists to detect the new dwarf galaxy clusters.

Jan 25, 2017

NASA is close to figuring out how to put space crews in cryostasis on long space journeys

Longer trips to say Europa, Titan or even the Outer Oort cloud will almost certainly require some form of suspended animation, in the form of hibernation or deep sleep chambers

Jan 24, 2017