Mars will come closest to the earth in a decade this month. It will offer sky-watchers a celestial show from dusk to dawn beginning this week, said NASA on Thursday.
NASA's new discovery of 1,284 planets is more than double the number of confirmed planets found through the Kepler telescope.
NASA's Kepler space telescope is gearing up to embark on a new K2 mission, which will reveal how common orphan planets are.
Three such stars outside of any galaxy exploded, revealing to astronomers the forces at work in dark space.
A laser gun mounted atop the ISS could destroy debris orbiting Earth.
The AFP atop Mt. Hamilton in San Jose found three planets orbiting a star 54 light years away from Earth.
Sympathizers of native Hawaiians who are opposed to the construction of the telescope at a location they consider sacred, hacked the Thirty Meter Telescope's website.
Hubble Space Telescope was launched aboard the Discovery space shuttle twenty-five years ago to provide us with an "unobstructed view of the universe."
Using EUSO's infrared telescope to track debris, the ISS could fire laser and get rid of junk.
The discovery of unique patterns attributed to primordial gravitational waves in the cosmic microwave background was actually caused by dust.
Comet Lovejoy, which has joined the solar system after 12,000 years, will streak across the skies through the first month of the new year.
NuSTAR has for the first time captured X-rays from the Sun, which scientists hope can help answer many puzzles.
Kepler telescope which developed a technical snag last year, has exceeded expectations after an innovation fix by identifying a massive planet 180 light years away.
