Moscow: A Russian researcher has claimed to have discovered fragments of the largest celestial body to hit the Earth in recorded history - in 1908 -though he has waited for 23 years before going public with the findings.Three stones found…

Washington: NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite has captured video images of a massive explosion that erupted Wednesday from the edge of the sun.The explosion, known as a coronal mass ejection (CME), can shoot over a billion tonnes of particles into…

Moscow: A celestial body 20 metres in diameter will pass dangerously close -- 8,620 km -- to the Earth's surface in 13 years, an Italian astronomer has said.The flyby of the asteroid 2013 GM3 April 14, 2026, may bring it…

Washington: The three smartphone satellites sent into space Sunday by the maiden flight of Orbital Science Corp.'s Antares rocket are operating normally in orbit, the US space agency NASA said. Transmissions from all the three PhoneSats, believed to be the…

ESA’s Herschel space observatory and the NASA/ESA Hubble space telescope have captured new images of the Horsehead Nebula and its turbulent environment. The Horsehead Nebula lies in the constellation Orion, about 1300 light-years away, and is a popular target for…

Washington, April 19 (IANS/RIA Novosti) NASA's "planet-hunting" space telescope Kepler has discovered seven new planets, including two that are orbiting in the zone "between fire and ice" that could sustain life, experts said."We have found two planets in the habitable…

Washington, April 12 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Planned space adventures over the next few decades for the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) read like a science fiction thriller with a touch of the wild west thrown in, with plans to…

Bangalore, April 5 (IANS) Terming the "controversial" Pentavalent vaccine "effective and safe", health experts here Friday said the vaccine will be pivotal in bringing down the country's child mortality rate.Touted as a"one-shot wonder" and introduced in the universal immunisation programme…

Tokyo, April 2 (IANS) A species of shellfish "Thais clavigera" has disappeared in a 30-km coastal area near Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, Japanese experts said.Researchers from Japan's National Institute for Environmental Studies and National Institute of Radiological Sciences conducted…

Mumbai, March 26 (IANS) For over a century and quarter, the tiny Geckoella Jeyporensis, a small lizard measuring up to 10 cm, was given up as extinct. Now it has been spotted in the Eastern Ghats, causing scientists to cheer.A…