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A NASA space observatory watched an odd solar flare on Tuesday, 7 June 2011. According to officials, satellite communications and power on Earth can face some disruption by this solar flare. As per the National ...

When environmental history is written, 2010 could be seen a disaster for the clean technology industry. The year dawned just after the disappointment that was December's U.N. global warming summit in Copenhagen, where the nations of the world faile...

The defunct UARS satellite that fell over the Pacific Ocean near Christmas Island last week on Saturday sparked some universal murmur. However, it is not the only spacecraft showered out of space; another dead, drifting satellite is making a bee...

Philippe Crassous captured a big picture of hydrothermal worm using FEI Quanta SEM electron microscope. He submitted the picture to FEI's gallery. Hydrothermal worm is deep sea creature which is as small as ...

Humans will contact alien civilizations by 2031, according to Russian Scientists expectation. Everyone assume that we are alone on this earth but this assumption may prove wrong in near future as the Scientist believes that exis...

NASA is preparing to launch a Department of Defense satellite from the Wallops Flight Facility at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Virginia.

The Air Force Minotaur 1 rocket is scheduled for launch Tuesday.

The rocket will carry the firs...

Are these planets without orbits? Astronomers have found 10 potential planets as massive as Jupiter wandering through a slice of the Milky Way galaxy, following either very wide orbits or no orbit at all. And scientists think they are more common t...

Scientists may be just steps from discovering the first habitable planet beyond our own.

Gliese 581d, a planet orbiting the red-dwarf star Gliese, may be the first real candidate for human expansion. That is, if it didn't take 3,000 lifetimes to...

Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh), April 20 (IANS) In a boost to India's remote sensing capability, the PSLV C-16 rocket Wednesday launched Resourcesat-2 and two other satellites from the spaceport here.

On a bright morning at 10.12 a.m., the Indian ...

For the first time, Earth has a regular orbiting eye-in-the-sky spying on the solar system's smallest and strangest planet, Mercury.

NASA's spacecraft called Messenger successfully veered into a pinpoint orbit Thursday night after a 6 1/2-year t...