Recent observations on comet Hyakutake shed new light on the information of our solar system

A RUSSIAN space probe to Mars which lifted off on schedule on November 16 from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, crashed into the southern Pacific Ocean, west of South America, near the Easter

Ganymede, the Jovian moon, has two planet-like features which were discovered last year: a magnetic field and the trace of an atmosphere. New data from the Hubble Space Telescope reveals that it

Cosmologists spy on galaxies being born, and conclude that these massive stellar assemblages might have formed earlier than believed

Observation of the star Lalande 21185 could lead to the first direct imaging of another solar planet

in the ongoing saga of unravelling the mysteries of the universe, the latest pictures sent by the Hubble space telescope opens a new chapter on how galaxies are possibly born. The new images show

J J Wiseman and P T P Ho of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Massachusetts, US, have reported the presence of a remarkable system of filaments of molecular gas behind the Great Nebula

Detection of two galaxies that are unassociated with a quasar raise further questions about galactic evolution

Yet another discovery in a series of unfolding spatial dramas propels Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, into spotlight

The age of a newly discovered galaxy defies the predictions of the standard cosmological model, meaning some more work for the theoreticians

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