University of Sheffield researchers say the explosion was an extremely rare Fast Blue Optical Transient (FBOT) - known colloquially amongst astronomers as 'the cow'.

Remember NASA searching for four volunteers to live on Mars last year. Well, that hunt is now over. Four humans will now begin to live on the red planet. What will be their living conditions like? Watch to know more.

Scientists may finally cracked a long-standing astronomical puzzle—what is the cause of a mysterious kind of radio signal known as fast radio bursts.

Space official calls for China to seize crucial opportunity to establish lunar infrastructure A top Chinese space official has called for the country to speed up its plans to develop lunar infrastructure or miss out on a never-to-be-repeated opportunity.

Astronomers say the ultramassive black hole has a mass of 30 billion suns and was located hundreds of millions of light-years from Earth

Fast-moving solar winds at the speed of 600 km per second have struck Earth and forecasters have raised an alert about a solar storm warning for today, March 31.

Washington: Indian-origin software and robotics engineer, Amit Kshatriya has been appointed as first head of NASA’s new Moon to Mars Programme Office at the agency’s headquarters in Washington.The new office aims to carry out NASA’s human exploration

NASA publishes its Astronomy Picture of the Day on a daily basis, featuring mesmerizing photographs taken by astrophotographers from all over the world. This week's pictures include the Crab Nebula, Andromeda Galaxy and more.

Watch | Massive hole on Sun may blast solar storms towards Earth

The new family already has two members, and both are closer to Earth.

NASA released its climate strategy on Wednesday in an effort to expand agency-wide efforts to counter climate challenges.

A cost-effective approach to producing MXene material could open up new possibilities for electronics and energy storage technology. The key to a perfect croissant lies in its multitude of layers, with each one interspersed with butter. Similarly, a new mater…

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The flare, classified as X1.2, is the seventh solar flare to hit Earth this year, and was captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory

[Christiaan Huygens] was a pretty decent mathematician and scientist by the standards of the 17th century. However, the telescopes he built were considered to be relatively poor in quality for the …

“Charming” Experiment Finds Gluon Mass in the Proton Experimental determination of the proton’s gluonic gravitational form factors may have revealed part of proton’s hidden mass. Nuclear physicists may have finally pinpointed where in the proton a large fract…

The cosmos would look a lot better if Earth's atmosphere wasn't photo bombing it all the time.

A decentralized, multi-agent trajectory planner keeps even large swarms of drones 100% collision-free.

The hat can tile a surface without creating transitional symmetry. In other words, the resulting pattern does not repeat. It is similar to the Penrose configuration in...

The names of the astronauts will be announced on Monday, and they'll be the first four humans to fly past the Moon since the Apollo program.

Some people live to be well beyond 100. But what genes and environmental factors contribute to such extreme longevity, and what can we learn from other long-lived animals?

University of Toronto researcher Amanda Cook has found a way to use bright signals coming from across the universe to weigh the atmosphere of the Milky Way galaxy.

Scientists have found evidence of an "ultramassive black hole" with a mass the equivilent of 30 billion Suns hidden in the heart of a distant galaxy.