SPACE

A Norwegian family was shocked to find a valuable meteorite in their cottage house in the middle of Oslo.

If asteroids hit earth, they could cause long-term hazards and also destroy civilisation.

Two of the brightest Planets, Venus and Jupiter, will come to the closest point this week.

One of the largest solar flares of this solar cycle that hit the earth on early Thursday.

Half-mile high dust devil reveals Earth-like weather patterns in atmosphere of Mars.

These solar flares are so powerful they can disrupt power grids, satellites, high frequency radio communication and the global positioning system.

Two spacecraft from Nasa have begun mapping the moon's lunar gravity to study the moon's interior and thermal history.

A bright light believed to be a meteorite was spotted across Britain and Scotland on Saturday.

Nasa's Cassini spacecraft has detected the presence of oxygen ions around Saturn's icy moon Dione for the first time.

Space-age cars driven by computer through vacuum air corridors are reality in computer tests.

Unidentified Sphere Crashes in Brazil

Astrophysicists claim to have discovered a stellar black hole in the Andromeda galaxy.

The study is of intense interest as the end of Mayan civilisation was linked to the possible apocalypse expected to hit the world by the end of 2012.

Scientists have discovered earthquakes or marsquakes on Mars. They believe that marsquakes are an indication that Mars could have liquid water and where there is water, there is surely life.

Scientists from Newcastle University have discovered that space bugs - Bacillus stratosphericus and Bacillus altitudinis - bacteria normally found 30km above the earth have been identified as highly efficient generators of electricity.

Researchers say height of Earth's cloud cover has dropped by 1% in decade and could cool planet.

Apparently, a video showing an Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) landing near the famed Roswell crash site in New Mexico has surfaced and is rapidly doing the rounds on the Internet.

Scientists have detected a rare earth element, Tellurium, in three ancient stars.

Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered "buckyballs", in a solid form, in space. The finding was confirmed by a NASA press release.

Astronomers have discovered an exo-planet that reportedly contains water. The discovery was made with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.

Astronomers working from NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory have discovered what they believe is the fastest blowing wind, coming from a stellar black hole.

Astronomers from Nasa and the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum have discovered that the moon's crust is being stretched. They discovered it with the help of Nasa's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft

The researchers at the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) are confident that contact with intelligent alien civilizations may soon be a reality.

On Feb. 20, the world will take a minute out of their schedules... to acknowledge the difference John Glenn has made to their lives five decades ago.

A photograph taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn's largest moon - Titan - in the foreground, with its third-largest moon - Dione - nestled just behind it.

Nasa astronomers have discovered a cluster of young, blue stars encircling one of the first intermediate-mass black holes ever discovered.

"The space elevator will be built about 50 years after everyone stops laughing," said science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, a long time ago.

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory has posted a wonderful video... of a tornado on the surface of the Sun!

Astronomers from the Space Telescope Science Institute are watching a delayed broadcast of a spectacular outburst from the unstable, behemoth double-star system, Eta Carinae which had occurred nearly 170 years ago.