London: Soon, astronauts may orbit the Earth in inflatable space stations, now that Nasa has made them a priority. According to a report in New Scientist, Nasa announced a change in this direction on February 1.
The youngest extra-solar planet, six times the mass of Jupiter -- 1.9x1027 kg, has been discovered.
The giant planet named BD+20 1790b is only 35 million years old and orbits a young active central star at a distance closer than Mer- cury orbits the sun.
Washington: Scientists at Nasa claim to have gathered evidence that spurned Pluto is no longer a ball of ice and rock, but a dynamic world undergoing dramatic seasonal and atmospheric changes
London:Contradicting the belief that Moon is a chunk of rock that broke away from Earth due to an explosion in space, a new study claims it was created as a result of a nuclear blast on the planet
Mumbai: In a discovery of stellar proportions, scientists at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) in Colaba, in partnership with in an international team of astronomers, have found a new class of supernovae. The find uncovers a new means to detect these rare phenomena.
