Japan's Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology's (JAMSTEC) largest drilling ship called "Chikyu" are planning to use it to drill into the earth’s mantle.

Scientists have discovered a crater linked to tsunamis that swept part of ancient Mars. They have found an asteroid at 150-m-high waves when it dived into the ocean, which might have existed on northern Mars three billion years ago.

A three-person crew from the International Space Station has landed safely in Kazakhstan after spending 173 days in space. Expedition 50 crew members Astronaut Shane Kimbrough of NASA and cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko of Russian space agency Roscosmos made their way back to Earth on Monday.

Expedition 50 crew members Shane Kimbrough, Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko will take a ride back to Earth inside the Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft. The are scheduled to land Monday at 7:21 a.m. EDT (4.51 p.m. India time) in Kazakhstan.

Researchers at the University of California have created a self-healing substance that can make cellphone screen-damage problem a thing of the past.

NASA’s Kepler space telescope has spotted a Venus-like planet orbiting a dim star that is one-fifth in size of our sun. Astronomers have located the new planet at 219 light years away from Earth.

Black holes are still a mystery unsolved; an Indian scientist from Assam has done a breakthrough research over them.

The European Space Agency (ESA) in the Hubble Space Telscope has beamed back a close up image of Jupiter showing its famous Great Red Spot and several colourful bands, running parallel to the equator.

According to a report of US space agency NASA, a large asteroid with an estimated size of 2000 feet is expected to fly past Earth on April 19. The asteroid was discovered nearly three years ago.

A large near-Earth asteroid discovered nearly three years ago will fly safely past Earth on April 19th, US space agency NASA has said.