For his paper on ‘dynamics of dark matter’, Jamia Millia Islamia scientist Mohammad Sami will share a citation given by the Nobel Prize committee for the year 2011.

China today successfully launched an unmanned spacecraft for its maiden docking mission, paving the way for its first space station by 2020 to rival Mir, the space lab being run by Russian and US a

Stockholm: Three US-born scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics today for their studies of exploding stars that revealed that the expansion of the universe is accelerating.

About 2,300 years ago, Greek astronomer Eratosthenes had tried measuring the circumference of the Earth using shadows thrown by the sun.

Planet At Right Distance From Its Star For Water To Exist

Washington: A spacecraft circling the moon has snapped the sharpest photos ever of the tracks and trash left behind by Apollo astronauts in their visits from 1969 to 1972.

Capa Canaveral: Four decades after landing men on the moon, Nasa is returning to Earth’s orbiting companion, this time with a set of robotic twins that will measure lunar gravity while chasing one

New Delhi: Five asteroids, including a rare Trojan asteroid, have been discovered by ten Indian students during an international astronomy project.

Two Delhi students have made history by discovering an asteroid as part of a unique astronomy project connected to US space agency NASA.

The longest and darkest total lunar eclipse of the century will occur on Wednesday midnight, giving sky enthusiasts all over the country an opportunity to witness the event.

An unusually long lunar eclipse with the moon immersed deeply inside the umbral (darker) shadow of the earth will occur, Nehru Planetarium Director N.