The photographs from the James Webb Space Telescope, which show off the capabilities of the $10-billion telescope built to gaze far into sp...

The TMT project, despite being on high priority of the Barack Obama administration during 2009-17, could not take off during the Donald Tru...

Toronto, Sep 10 (IANS) Using data from NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, an international team of scientists has discovered a new exoplanet tw...

Washington, Dec 19 (IANS) A NASA-led team has found that gravity waves force an east-west jet stream speeding through the atmosphere high a...

New York, June 4 (IANS) Scientists have discovered a brown dwarf -- sometimes called "failed stars" -- a little more than 100 light years a...

Washington, April 28 (IANS) NASA said it is initiating an independent external review to know how long it will take and how much it will co...

Washington, April 1 (IANS) This is no joke. A comet, being playfully called the April Fool's Day comet, is set to make its closest approach...

Washington, Feb 11 (IANS) Comet hunters have a chance to spot comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova in the next few days using binoculars or a ...

"It's a one-in-a-million chance that you can predict an explosion. It's never been done before," said Larry Molnar, professor at Calvin Col...

New York, Dec 1 (IANS) Using data from four different telescopes, a team of astronomers led by an Indian-origin researcher has reported tha...

The detection of gravitational waves, an experiment involving diverse technologies, will provide the scientific community in India with a u...

NASA's "flying" telescope aboard a highly modified Boeing 747SP jetliner has begun its fourth series of flights to map planets, asteroids, ...

More than 13,500 near-Earth objects of all sizes have been discovered to date - over 95 per cent of them since NASA-funded surveys began in...

The newly discovered galaxy known by its scientific name 'J021659-044920' is the newest member of this elite group.

A primitive ocean on Mars held more water than Earth's Arctic Ocean but the Red Planet lost 87 per cent of that water to space, a new study...

TMT will be located just below the summit of Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaii, at an elevation of 4,050 - half the size of Mt Everest.

A key element of the cooperation could be the NLST, world's largest such facility that India plans to set up in collaboration with Germany ...