The countdown for the ISRO record 104 satellite launch on Wednesday is progressing smoothly at the Sriharikota rocket port in Andhra Pradesh, officials said.

China plans to launch its first cargo spacecraft to transport supplies to its future space station in April, the media reported on Tuesday.

Scientists have shortlisted three landing sites for NASA's Mars 2020 rover -- slated for launch in July 2020 aboard an Atlas V 541 rocket from the Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

It was 4.6 billion years ago when an enormous cloud of hydrogen gas and dust collapsed under its own weight, eventually flattening into a disk to form the solar nebula, new research has found.

India will create history by launching a record 104 satellites, including 101 foreign ones, into the earth's lower orbit, on February 15 from Andhra Pradesh, an official said on Monday.

Examining a molecular cloud with enigmatic motion, a team led by researchers in Japan has found signs of stray black hole hiding in the Milky Way. It is difficult to find black holes, because they are completely black. In some cases black holes cause effects which can be seen.

"Despite their youth, these far-flung blazars host some of the most massive black holes known," said Roopesh Ojha, an astronomer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Ever thought how beautiful can Barcelona airport look like from space? Well, French astronaut Thomas Pesquet show us how magical it is.

NASA scientists in an unprecedented study have found that space travel may alter gene expression.

The collision of an asteroid with Earth can have devastating impact but a team of researchers is working out how to deflect the path of an asteroid to avoid the apocalypse.