Mission to explore planet Jupiter is all set to begin from 2022; the European Space Agency will be launching (Jupiter Icy moons explorer) JUICE to examine the giant planet’s turbulent atmosphere, enormous magnetosphere, its set of tenuous dark rings and satellites.

Australian scientists have discovered a "key molecule", which can kill microbes that infect the human liver, a breakthrough experts believe could bring a malaria vaccine one step closer.

SpaceX on Thursday launched the EchoStar 23 communications satellite after high winds delayed a previous attempt. The launch took place at the historic Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The Indian fossils, 400 million years older and by far the oldest plant-like fossils ever found, suggest that the early branches of the tree of life need to be recalibrated.

Seven teams, including three from India, have qualified for the country's first private moon mission in December, space technology start-up TeamIndus said on Wednesday.

A group of 43 scientists in a new study have highlighted that conservation of large mammals (megafauna) does not come at the cost of biodiversity conservation, but rather complements it, a statement said on Tuesday. A public declaration made last year by the same scientists had called for a global plan to prevent the world's large mammals from slipping into oblivion.

A new species, green frog that glows, has been discovered in the Amazon basin in Argentina. Researchers at the Bernardino Rivadavia Natural Sciences Museum in Buenos Aires accidentally found the special species while they were studying polka dots tree frogs, a species common in the rain forest.

Ostriches, the flightless birds, are in India for nothing less than 25,000 years, a new study has revealed. Though the bird is a native to Africa, researchers and geologists have been finding traces of their existence in India.

Black holes in space and their mysteries have been surprising researchers in regular interval of time. In a latest, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has discovered a star that is believed to be orbiting a black hole in nearby milky way in space.

In another development to find life on planet Mars, the scientists have identified nearly 4000 varieties of potatoes that can be grown on the red planet.