SPACE

China's manned mission crews may include female astronauts, a first in its space programme.

Team of scientists from Chile, Canada, Finland, the United Kingdom, Spain and US say planet earth is fast moving towards doomsday.

Flight software helps to control the launch vehicle during in flight and preflight tanking operations.

Success of privately funded SpaceX Dragon spacecraft points to commercial flights, say company founder Elon Musk.

SpaceX dragon, the first commercial vehicle to visit the International Space Station (ISS) has successfully returned to earth.

The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has given its permission to Virgin Galactic for its suborbital spacecraft, SpaceshipTwo, and the carrier aircraft, WhiteKnightTwo.

Nasa and X Prize Foundation of Playa Vista, California, release new guidelines to protect historic lunar sites.

Boeing Co announces the successful completion of the software Preliminary Design Review for its Commercial Crew Development initiative.

A new chapter in spaceflight was opened today as Spacex became the first private firm to launch a vessel to the International Space Station.

It was a spectacular sight as people witnessed the "ring of Fire" eclipse - as the moon passed between Earth and the sun, leaving a ring of fire in the sky.

In the early hours of Monday morning, millions of people across Asia witnessed an astonishing solar eclipse, as the moon and sun aligned to darken the Pacific region and cast a beautiful 'golden ring' in the sky.

The last time this rare phenomenon occurred was on 8 June, 2014 when millions of people across the globe watched the spectacular event.

Russian Earth Observation Centre NTs OMZ releases ultra-high resolution of earth.

MIRI Optical System is an instrument for the James Webb Space Telescope.

South African space tourism company, Orbital Horizon has charged Virgin Galactic of misleading the public by stating that it was the first agent in the country to offer outer space flights.

Boeing Co. has announced its successful completion of the second parachute drop test of the company's Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 spacecraft at the Delamar Dry Lake Bed, Nevada.

'Juice' will start eight-year mission to largest planet in the Solar System to see if conditions exist for life to form.

ESA project aims to hunt for gravitational waves.

Nasa's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) satellite capturesan ageing star erupting dust on the cosmos.

Launched on April 24, 1990 aboard space shuttle's Discovery's STS-31 mission, Hubble revolutionized the study of universe and helped scientists unravel many evolution theories.

Sombrero galaxy has both the shapes of round and thin disks and is located 28 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo.

Images include the Nile River Delta at night and a scenic view of the Northwest Greenland Canyons.

Highlights of the auction include several artefacts from Apollo astronauts' collections.

Huge solar flare releases energy of one million hydrogen bombs, say astronomers.

Nasa's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has captured the stunning images of solar flares from the sun

The 1976 Viking Mission to Mars obtained clear responses on the existence of Martian life which was accidentally killed during the experiments, according to new media reports.

Nasa’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows image of rock formation that resembles elephant's head.

A star, HD 10180, located around 127 light-years away and located using the radical velocity method or Doppler wobble may have nine major planets thereby crossing the Solar System's eight official planet numbers.

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