Giant perturbations called "hot flow anomalies" in the solar wind near Venus can swallow the entire ...

Come 2015, India and rest of the world can see the first aircraft that is powered by solar energy an...

Mars, not Earth, plays a role in "refreshing" some near-Earth asteroids, causing the space rocks to ...

Astronomers have for the first time seen an asteroid with six comet-like tails of dust radiating fro...

Despite criticism about the mission, the successful launch of 'Mangalyaan' has been hailed by the sc...

The Sun has emitted a large solar flare - its fourth X-class flare in the last week, NASA has said....

Astronomers have discovered one of the richest planetary systems - containing up to seven planets or...

Astronomers using data from NASA's Kepler space telescope have discovered a distant planetary system...

In a first, astronomers have found a water-rich rocky planetary body outside our Solar System with b...