Discovery of a new planet raises hopes of finding planets similar to the Earth

A "spy in the sky' satellite is being tested by coastguards in Canada

A new mathematical formula will scan satellite images to study changes in coral reefs

The Galileo spacecraft launched in 1989 to survey Jupiter and four of its moons may be close to a fiery end. A NASA (National Aeronautic and Space Administration) panel has recommended that the

global warming is responsible for melting more than 50 billion tonnes of water per year from the Greenland ice sheet, leading to a 59 centimetres rise in global sea level over the last

Our knowledge of the Sun is limited by the fact that direct observations from the Earth are limited to the near side of our nearest star. The sun rotates and eventually all sides come into view, yet,

US scientists use radar to capture every single detail of the Earth s topography

according to local media reports, Russia may sell its space station Mir to China. Reporting on the last round of bilateral defence cooperation talks held in Moscow in the first week of March,

Statistical physics provides an explanation to dark matter and how time could run backwards

The Cosmic Background Explorer satellite has discovered the infrared glow of the universe's first generation of stars and galaxies. But its small telescopes could not pick up the "lumps' that