- 'Hot Jupiter' with deadly stratosphere stuns scientists
Washington, Nov 30 (IANS) A NASA-led team of scientists has determined that WASP-18b, a "hot Jupiter" located 325 light-years from Earth, h...
- Proxima b unlikely to be habitable: NASA
Washington, Aug 1 (IANS) Dampening hopes of finding alien life on the closest exoplanet ever discovered, a new NASA study says that the atm...
- Bengaluru's hi-tech planetarium reopens for viewing cosmos
Bengaluru, Jan 17 (IANS) The Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium reopened here on Tuesday with a hybrid projector system for a breath-taking view ...
- Hubble spots exocomets taking plunge onto young star
Washington, Jan 7 (IANS) NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered exocomets -- comets outside our solar system -- plunging onto a young...
Scientists observe Earth-like planet in search of alien lifeA transit is a phenomenon in which a planet passes in front of its parent star, blocking a small amount of light from the star, like a shad...
- Astronomers observe transit of Earth-like extra-solar planet
Tokyo, Nov 29 (IANS) In an important step towards the search for extra-terrestrial life, astronomers in Japan have observed the transit of ...
Scientists find oldest-known planetary diskAstronomers believe they have found the oldest known planet-forming disk -- a 45-million-year-old ring of gas and dust that orbits around a...
Hot super-Earths stripped by host stars foundScientists using data from NASA's Kepler space telescope have discovered a class of extrasolar planets whose atmospheres..
Mars mission: Indian origin researcher wins NASA contest for conceptThe 2016 portfolio of Phase I concepts cover a wide range of innovations selected for their potential to revolutionise future aerospace mis...
Gas giant planet discovered near Milky Way's bulgeScientists have detected a strong light curve signal coming from OGLE-2014-BLG-1760. They assume that it must be caused by the presence of ...
Most eccentric planet spotted 117 light-years from EarthResearchers have spotted an extrasolar planet, about 117 light-years from Earth, that boasts the most eccentric orbit ever seen.
NASA's 'flying' telescope begins studying asteroids, starsNASA's "flying" telescope aboard a highly modified Boeing 747SP jetliner has begun its fourth series of flights to map planets, asteroids, ...
Breakthrough Listen project: Indian member harassed by calls about contact with aliensThe calls started on July 20, when Russian billionaire Yuri Milner announced the $100 million Breakthrough Listen project.
First aurora discovered beyond our solar system, 18 light years from EarthAstronomers have discovered the first aurora outside our solar system, around a brown dwarf about 18 light years away from Earth
Rare shot of venus crossing sun may help us find alien lifeAll that our telescopes really see is a faint dip in a star's light as the shadow of a planet flutters across its path.
UK schoolboy discovers Jupiter-sized planet in our galaxy15-year-old schoolboy in UK has possibly become the youngest person ever to discover an alien planet after he found a new Jupiter-sized pla...
A technological leap of faithThe scientific search for extraterrestrial (ET) intelligence has all the makings of a new religion. Believers argue that while it’s true ou...