China is set to launch a space telescope, the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT), to observe pulsars in the galaxy of Milky Way, according to scientists.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and astronomers have jointly found a moon orbiting around the third largest dwarf planet, catalogued as 2007 OR10.

NASA has released a new image of earth clicked from Saturn's Icy Rings, where it can be seen only as a point of light. The image has been clicked by NASA's Cassini spacecraft from the distance of 870 million miles from the icy rings of Saturn.

NASA has released its latest global maps of Earth at night, providing the "clearest yet composite" view of the patterns of human settlement across our planet.

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

A team of scientists, including an Indian-origin associate, has created tough 'fuzzy' fibers to stand up to the heat and pressure that next-generation rocket engines would produce.

The Australian National University (ANU) has called on amateur astronomers to help its researchers find a new planet in the Solar System.

NASA's Hubble space telescope has detected a supermassive black hole that has been kicked out of the centre of a distant galaxy by what could be the awesome power of gravitational waves.

A large and growing crack on the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko recorded by European Space Agency's Rosetta mission suggests that the comet might split up one day, says a new study.

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.