The students detected the pulsar in data obtained from the Green Bank Telescope.
Blue Origin, a start-up space company owned by Jeff Bezos, launched an experimental suborbital spaceship from Texas.
EmDrive inventor Shawyer says many companies are working on the technology besides Nasa.
Nasa has tested an electromagnetic propulsion drive in a vacuum and sent beams faster than the speed of light.
Three-dimensional view of iconic Pillars of Creation created using ESO's Very Large Telescope.
This confirms that alien life forms are continually entering the Earth's stratosphere from space, researcher tells IBTimes UK.
The exact location where the debris of M-27M will fall will be known in two days.
Intriguing features spotted near planet's pole from 60m miles away.
Nasa's Messenger spacecraft will crash into the planet Mercury on 30 April as it runs out of fuel.
The Progress 59 unmanned craft was carrying supplies to the space station.
The Space Shuttle Enterprise was dedicated to the fallen crews of the US space flight programme.
3D map spanning two billion light years provides most comprehensive view of universe.
The crash is expected to leave a crater 16m wide on Mercury's surface.
UK scientists building a space laser which will blast beams of energy to Earth
The shock wave generated in cluster collisions however cannot sustain star formation for long.
Early evangelist Saul/Paul became a Christian after seeing exploding meteor, scientist says.
Hubble telescope was launched 25 years ago today and Google has marked it with a doodle.
As Hubble turns 25, here's everything you need to know about Nasa's famous space telescope.
Senior Hubble scientists says Hubble has many more years before it is decommissioned.
Former Canadian defence minister spoke about aliens and secret UFO files, recently.
The computer simulation on asteroid formation also showed that the process could continue to form planets.
The direct observation of visible light spectrum could speed up the search for exoplanets.
IBTimesUK celebrates Hubble's quarter-century with 25 of the best images captured by the space telescope.
Nasa's Hubble Space Telescope celebrates 25 years since it was launched on 24 April 1990
Thick-toed geckos filmed playing with a collar one had managed to remove during pre-launch period.
Hubble's successor could raise the stakes in search for aliens, says a scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute.
High velocity debris identified by the EUSO telescope will be targeted by the laser.
The largest search for alien life looked at heat signatures of advanced civilisations.
ULA to send flight-ready rocket components from Ultem plastic into space on unmanned flights.
The Lyrid meteor shower, from Comet C/1861 G1 Thatcher, will peak around 22 and 23 April 2015