Perseid meteor shower 2018: When and where to watch this year's best shooting stars (Video)

In the dark of the night, you should be able to see a meteor streak across the sky every minute or so.

Aug 12, 2018

Star cluster Omega Centauri, mini-version of our solar system but devoid of life, says study

The stars in that part of the Milky Way are packed in too tightly, so they are likely to interact with each other every million years or so.

Aug 10, 2018

Hellish ultrahot Jupiters constantly create and destroy water in endless loop: NASA study

Dayside temperatures on these planets, which are closer to their host stars than Mercury is to the Sun, are estimated to be between 2,000 and 3,000 degrees Celsius. Nightside temperatures, on the other hand, are around 1,000 degrees Celsius cooler.

Aug 10, 2018

NASA explains why flying to the Sun is not easy - it's not the heat

NASA estimates that it would take a spacecraft, 55 times more energy to reach the Sun than it would to reach Mars and this is not just because of the distance it has to cover.

Aug 9, 2018

ESO releases image of galaxy survey that shows NGC 5018 in stunning detail

The galaxy is located about 94 million light years from Earth and was captured by the ESO VST.

Aug 9, 2018

Ganymede's electromagnetic waves are a million times more powerful than Jupiter's

Chorus waves are known to create the high-energy killer electrons that damage spacecraft. Considering how powerful the electromagnetic field is around Ganymede, scientists are questioning what kind of damage it can do to a spacecraft that gets close to it.

Aug 8, 2018

Russian meteor found made of diamond-like alien material never seen on Earth

The material is hard, almost as hard as a diamond that has never been seen before on Earth

Aug 8, 2018

Mysterious radiation stemming from the centre of Milky Way, not Dark Matter, says new study

Dark Matter still remains a mystery and is as elusive as ever.

Aug 7, 2018

Watch: NASA's planet-hunting TESS yet to start its science missions, already catches a comet

Images were stitched together to create the video were captured over the course of 17 hours on July 25.

Aug 7, 2018

Meteor older than Solar System holds clue to Earth's building blocks: Study

There were rocks floating about in space before the Earth came to be and one such rock has researchers learning a lot of about the Earth's birth and formation, finds Poorna Srinivasan, an Indian-origin space scientist.

Aug 7, 2018

Watch the Moon get hit by two asteroids and the light show that followed

The moon received two rocks to its face from space while passing through the tail of Comet 169P/NEAT, said the ESA.

Aug 6, 2018

Rogue planet not attached to any star found wandering through the Milky Way

The mystery planet is not the Planet X or Nibiru and is about 20 light years away.

Aug 6, 2018

Sturgeon Moon this month: Where to see full Moon, Mercury and Venus

As the red planet retreats, this month's biggest attraction, apart from the Moon itself will be Mercury and Venus.

Aug 5, 2018

ISRO Chandrayaan-2: India's mission to Moon faces another delay- launch moved to 2019

India was all set to be the fourth country to land on the Moon, but this delay could mean Israel will it make there by 2019, before India.

Aug 5, 2018

NASA recreates how a Milky Way Star fought siblings 170 years ago, exploded but survived

Though it is not possible to travel back to the 1800s to once again see and record the actual eruption, a "rebroadcast" of sorts was captured by scientists, about 170 years later, now.

Aug 3, 2018