Asteroid 2024 PT5 is scheduled to become a temporary mini-moon around Earth from September 29 to November 25, 2024. The 10-meter asteroid w...

The 930-kilogram satellite carrying four instruments -- two French, two Chinese -- took off around 3:00 pm (0700 GMT) aboard a Chinese Long...

After 12 new natural satellites were discovered, Jupiter has beaten Saturn to become the planet, which has the most moons in the solar syst...

Astronomers said on Thursday that if the results are verified, this newly-discovered throng of stars would beat the most distant galaxy ide...

The other stellar-mass black holes were revealed by their energising interactions with a companion star, despite the fact that there are pr...

The spectacle is a near convergence of the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn that coincides with Monday's winter solstice, the shortest day of t...

Washington, Aug 1 (IANS) Dampening hopes of finding alien life on the closest exoplanet ever discovered, a new NASA study says that the atm...

Among the major challenges in working in this field in India is the lack of large-scale experimental facilities for scientists.

Mumbai, July 19 (IANS) Three space-based observatories Astrosat, Chandra, Hubble Space Telescope and a ground-based observatory HARPS have ...

London, April 20 (IANS) A rocky exoplanet orbiting in the habitable zone of a red dwarf star 40 light-years from the Earth may be the best ...

The orbit is seen almost edge-on from Earth and as the exoplanet passes in front of the star once per orbit it blocks a little of its light...

London, April 20 (IANS) An international team of astronomers has discovered a so-called "super-Earth" that could contain liquid water, a si...

As it travels inwards to be ingested by the black hole, the material heats up to millions of degrees and generates a distinct X-ray flare.

Researchers said that this is one of the nearest super massive black holes to Earth that is currently undergoing such violent outbursts.

Astronomers have discovered a new Venus-like rocky exoplanet 39 light years away, which may be cool enough to potentially host an atmospher...

A remote gas planet about 13,000 light-years away has been discovered by scientists using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.

So far, only uninhabitable gas-giant planets have been identified circling such binary stars, and many researchers believe rocky planets ca...