A huge ball of brightly burning gas drifting through a neighbouring galaxy may be the heaviest star ever discovered

The ground tracking station at the Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology (NMIT) in Yelahanka, 20 km from Bangalore, where India

PSLV Delivers 5 Satellites At One Go

Chennai: In a flawless launch, five satellites, including the advanced high-resolution cartography satellite Cartosat-2B, were placed in orbit on Monday by India

London: The Earth is much younger than previously thought, a new study has suggested.

Will pave way for predicting solar flares, space storms

London, June 20
For the first time, astronomers have found that the magnetic field in the outer atmosphere of the Sun produces eerie musical harmonies

Washington: Moon has hundred times more water than was previously thought, and it could be widespread deep under its surface, planetary scientists have claimed.

A team of scientists flew to the Australian Outback on Monday and recovered a Japanese space capsule that they hope contains asteroid samples providing clues into the evolution of the solar system.

Ahuge, potentially life-giving sea likely covered more than a third of Mars some 3.5 billion years ago, according to a study released on Sunday. Spread over an area the size of the Atlantic Ocean, it would have straddled the north pole and contained the equivalent of a tenth of the water on Earth.

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An international team of researchers climbed into a set of windowless steel capsules on Thursday to launch a 520-day simulation of a flight to Mars intended to help real space crews of the future cope with confinement, stress and fatigue of interplanetary travel.