NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory, observing the universe in high-energy light since 1999, is back in action after suffering a glitch due to the failure of the gyroscope and going into safe mode last week.

In the wake of a booster failure that forced a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to make an emergency landing last week, astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) were worried whether their space launch would be cancelled.

US biologists have grown human retina tissue in the laboratory to determine how cells that allow people to see in colour are made, an advance that can lead to the development of therapies for diseases such as colour blindness and macular degeneration.

Barely a week after NASA's Hubble Space Telescope entered safe mode, its Chandra mission has also suffered a glitch possibly due to the failure of the gyroscope, the US space agency said.

Elon Musk-founded private spaceflight company SpaceX on Sunday successfully landed the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket on land after delivering an Argentinian earth-observation satellite from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on Monday said the planet will reach the crucial threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels by 2030, precipitating the risk of extreme drought, wildfires, floods and food shortages for hundreds of millions of people.

The first human spaceflight aboard a SpaceX rocket to the International Space Station (ISS) is expected to take place in June 2019, while a flight on a Boeing spacecraft is set to follow in August 2019, NASA said.

A Michigan man unknowingly used a rock as his doorsteps for over a decade; it has been found that the rock is meteorite with a current worth of $1,00,000. According to the Smithsonian Museum and Central Michigan University, the rock is also sixth largest meteorite found in Michigan.

NASA on Saturday announced date for first man mission by a SpaceX rocket to International Space Station. The flight is expected to take off in June 2019.

In a brand new finding, the scientists have detected first moon that exists outside our solar system. The exomoon is a large gaseous body of Neptune size; it is believed to be orbiting another gaseous planet bigger than Jupiter.

NASA's Voyager 2 probe that was launched in 1977 has detected an increase in cosmic rays that originate outside our solar system, indicating that it is near the interstellar space.

While there are eight planets in our solar system, scientists have discovered the brand new dwarf planet well beyond Pluto. The new planet has been spotted at the fringes of our solar system and scientists have nicknamed it as 'Goblin'.

World's prestigious space research organization, NASA, now, is planning to take a spacewalk in the International Space Station (ISS). It is in regard to tamp down speculation that sabotage caused a tiny hole in the side of a Russian module docked at the space station. The problem was discovered last month but the reason behind the mystery is yet to be explored.

Sounds weird, but yes, the neuroscientists have successfully connected the brains of three people to enable them share their thoughts. It's like Tetris-style game and scientists believe that this extra-ordinary experiment can be used to connect a big network of people.

Canada's Donna Strickland has created history by becoming the third female recipient in history and the first in 55 years. In the remarkable occasion, she said that women have "come a long way" since the previous laureate, Maria Goeppert Mayer.

US space agency NASA has completed 60 years of human space exploration, discovering the world beyond Earth and developing new technologies.

As NASA celebrates its 60th anniversary on October 1, Charles Bolden, a vital person in the space agency mentions about the target to land humans on Mars by the mid-2030's.

It is often said that dogs have exceptional intelligence level. But, the saying has been challenged by a new study which claims that a dog's cognitive ability can be matched with several other animals.