Astronomers have discovered over two dozen previously unknown failed stars, otherwise known as brown dwarfs, including "one of the puniest free-floating objects known."
After its final mission in June this year, shuttle Endeavour has been turned over to its new owner, the California Science Center. NASA has turned over the ownership of the spacecraft this week although actual transfer will still be in 2012.
An egg shaped 4.5 million year old meteorite crashed directly on the roof of a French Family. Coincidentally, the house is owned by the Comette family which is on a vacation when it happened. They were not aware that a meteorite crashed until their roof started leaking
The story of Armaggedon may just hold true as a new study revealed that explosions of stars or black hole collisions in the Milky Way produces colossal blasts of lethal gamma rays, X-rays and cosmic rays that can severely threaten Earth.
New discoveries about the sun are expected when the Solar Orbiter mission, a newly selected mission by the European Space Agency, is sent off to study the sun at a distance that has never been dared before.
On Tuesday night, at 10:06 p.m. EDT (0206 GMT), the part of the world where the moon is visible could see the astronomical opposite of a supermoon, the smallest full moon of 2011.
Brace yourselves for impact. German scientists are warning of another out-of-control satellite that is heading to Earth and is expected to make landfall by the end of the month.
Earth lives in a shooting gallery where celestial bodies like asteroids and supernova could hit the planet and potentially cause a cataclysmic event. A new study from Washburn University presents how different scenarios could end all life on Earth.
Mining activities on the Moon appears to become a fast-approaching reality as U.S. astronomers reported last week the likely presence of titanium ore on the lone Earth’s natural satellite, with reserves rich enough to encourage man in establishing a mine colony.
Findings of abundant titanium ore, which is a very expensive metal, in the moon could make it a future mining colony.
The sun will undergo the closest scrutiny yet when two new instruments are placed on the European Space Agency's newly selected Solar Orbiter, which is to be launched in 2017.
The Aurora Australis, or the southern lights as it is often called, is visible from the high southern latitudes in Antarctica, South America and Australia. This natural light display is caused by the collision of energetic charged particles with atoms in the high latitude atmosphere.
New research may prove that much of Earth's oceans are the result of a comet colliding with the young Earth bringing loads of ice to our planet.
For dissenting earlier scientists’ assertions that the expanding universe has been slowing down, Australian National University Professor Brian Schmidt won the 2011 Nobel Physics prize.
Australian Nobel laureate, Brian Schmidt first thought when he received the call that would change his professional career was that it was nothing but an elaborate joke.
Watch out the Abominable Snowman, scientists are out to get you. An international team of scientists including Russian and the U.S. researchers will hunt down the mythical Yeti after a spurt of sightings in Kemerova region of Siberia.
The European Space Agency, counterpart of NASA in the U.S., is willing to provide substantial funding for cost-effective missions to outer planets and outside the solar system as well as studies about the Earth's northern or southern lights and particle acceleration in the sun.
Scientists will launch the Solar Orbiter in 2017 to fly closer to the Sun than ever before in the history of space exploration. In another endeavor, European Space Agency will also launch a space telescope called Euclid in 2019 to explore the "Dark Energy."
The head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) underscored the need for sustained cooperation among nations to achieve significant milestones in space exploration endeavors.
NASA said it expects commercial operators to start transporting cargo to space within months. Both NASA and the European Space Agency said governments are still keen on space development efforts even as there is a rise of private business in the industry.
Get a closer look of the universe – the galaxies, the moon and stars – with the world’s biggest telescope, the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array (ALMA).
The largest ever ground-based telescope still under construction in a Chilean mountain released its first image from deep space on Monday showing two colliding galaxies 45 million light-years away from the Milky Way.
Scientists have discovered a bacterium that can transform ammonium, commonly found in urine into hydrazine, a rocket fuel.
Now that China has successfully launched its first space laboratory module with an eye towards a manned space station, how will this affect the global space race or will the Chinese just end up competing with itself?
California-based space exploration company Space X announced on Thursday that it is working on an orbital booster system that could fly to space and back and could be the key to colonizing Mars.
NASA's done it before but only in the movies but this time they're going to do it in real life. NASA scientists have announced they are planning to land n astronaut on an asteroid in the near future.
The NASA Messenger Spacecraft has presented its discoveries on the planet Mercury that refuted earlier textbook claims.
Amazing footage from the International Space Station reveals our planet in all its humbling and inspiring glory.
NASA has captured once again enchanting images of Aurora Australis from the International Space Station while passing over Indian Ocean on September 17. One of the Sept. 17 videos now circulating on the web shows wildfire images in Australia.
Australian astronomers have located the Milky Way, which apparently sits like a bead in a cosmic thread in the great cosmos.
