Scientists discovered grains called GEMS (glass with embedded metal and sulfides), which are believed to originate from comets, might be a dusty relic from before the formation of our solar system. The researchers reported their findings Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.Read News

India joined a select group of countries which have found planets around stars with the discovery of what is known as a sub-Saturn or super-Neptune-sized planet having a radius that is six times that of earth, Isro announced Read News

NASA's Curiosity rover has detected a bonanza of organic compounds on the surface of Mars and seasonal fluctuations of atmospheric methane in findings released on Thursday that mark some of the strongest evidence ever that Earth's neighbour may have harbored life.Read News

More than a billion years ago, a day on Earth lasted just 18 hours, a new study reports. The distance from our planet to the moon, scientists say, is one major reason for the extra six hours we have today.Read News

ISRO successfully launched the IRNSS 1I navigation satellite from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, on the 43rd flight of the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle.Read News

The Indian Space Research Organisation successfully placed communication satellite GSAT-6A in orbit and also set the ball rolling for its bigger missions in the future. The space agency tested certain improved critical systems in the launch vehicle - GSLV Mk-II.Read News

NASA is inviting people around the world to submit their names online to be placed on a microchip aboard its historic solar probe launching this summer. "This probe will journey to a region humanity has never explored before,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington.Read News

Physicists are constantly debating the nature of these collapsed stars. Physics is deterministic, meaning that knowing exactly what happened in the past, such as the origins of the universe, determines just one future. This would have to mean that Einstein's theory of general relativity predicted singularities.Read News

Total lunar eclipse is taking place now, but this is a special event or what NASA calls a 'Super Blue Blood moon'. India and several parts of the world is witnessing this super moon and total lunar eclipse as well. Read News

Today is the Supermoon Sunday. The full moon is at perigee, the point in its orbit when it's closest to the earth. The only visible Supermoon of 2017 will be observable to the entire world. According to NASA, the moon will appear 7 per cent larger and 15 per cent brighter than the average Full Moon.Read News