Scientists from the Oxford University in the UK and the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have invented a powerful X-ray laser - the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS). This laser will allow, for the first time, the heating of matter up to 2 million degrees Celsius, in a controlled setting.
Akshaya B S
Jan 28, 2012
The scientists used a laser to create magnetic fields which is similar to the magnetism of the universe.
Akshaya B S
Jan 28, 2012
Astronomers from the NASA have discovered 11 new solar systems hosting 26 planets with Kepler space telescope.
Akshaya B S
Jan 28, 2012
Astronomers from NASA have confirmed a huge asteroid flew past the Earth, on Friday at 10.30 a.m. EST.
Akshaya B S
Jan 28, 2012
Frontrunner for the Republican nomination, Newt Gingrich, has pledged to have the first permanent base on the moon if he is elected president.
Tom Nicolson
Jan 26, 2012
Astronomers from the University of Michigan in the U.S. and the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics in Potsdam, Germany have discovered a mysterious young star.
Akshaya B S
Jan 24, 2012
A powerful and fast-moving solar flare, which erupted on the surface of the Sun on Sunday, at 10.59 p.m., is heading towards Earth.
Akshaya B S
Jan 24, 2012
Astronomers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Groningen and Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy discover dark dwarf galaxy.
Akshaya B S
Jan 22, 2012
A long-duration solar flare that first erupted on the sun is heading towards Earth. The flare can disrupt long-range radio communications. On the other hand, it can create a beautiful display of the northern lights (aurora borealis) on Saturday.
Akshaya B S
Jan 21, 2012
NASA has caught a comet death on camera for the first time. The comet flew very close to the Sun, and it got evaporated due to the excess heat.
Akshaya B S
Jan 21, 2012
NASA will join the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and students from the U.S for the Zero Robotics Spheres Challenge.
Akshaya B S
Jan 20, 2012
In an exclusive interview to the International Business Times, Philip Muirhead, a postdoctoral scholar at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, who led a team which discovered three exoplantes recently, explains the significance of the discovery.
Akshaya B S
Jan 20, 2012
Released by NASA, these rarely-seen images have been digitally restored to an incredibly high quality, showing snapshots of life literally out of this world.
Alistair Charlton
Jan 18, 2012
Had it been successful, the spacecraft would have returned in August 2014.
Akshaya B S
Jan 14, 2012
Scientists have warned they expect the Phobos-Grunt spacecraft to plummet back down to Earth on Sunday.
Ewan Palmer
Jan 13, 2012
These four new planets, known as Hot Jupiters, are quite large. They revolve very close to their Sun-like star and so they are quite hot, compared to the Earth.
Akshaya B S
Jan 13, 2012
$1bn Thirty Metre Telescope will be able to pinpoint objects in space 13 billion light years away.
Jamie Lewis
Jan 12, 2012
Astronomers from the San Diego State University have discovered two new circumbinary planets, Kepler 34b and Kepler 35b, which are orbiting a pair of Sun-like stars.
Akshaya B S
Jan 12, 2012
Astronomers claim stargazers only aware of a "tiny fraction" of planets.
Nicholas Edmondson
Jan 11, 2012
El Gordo cluster found by astronomers seven billion light years from the Earth.
BS Unnikrishnan
Jan 11, 2012
World's most famous physicist unable to attend 70th birthday party after falling ill but still gives rousing pre-recorded speech.
Jamie Lewis
Jan 09, 2012
The Americans are said to be wary of Chinese space missions.
Aparajita Das
Jan 08, 2012
Phobos-Grunt has been stuck in its orbit around the Earth due to a computer malfunction since its launch in early November.
BS Unnikrishnan
Jan 04, 2012
Russia has admitted that parts of the failed Mars probe Phobus-Grunt, which became stranded in orbit, may come crashing back down to Earth next week.
Ewan Palmer
Jan 03, 2012
The past year has witnessed some revolutionary technological innovations. Some of the biggest and most inspiring stories revolved around technology .
Vinod Yalburgi
Jan 02, 2012
According to meteorologists based in New Zealand, the phenomenon is the result of the "2012 hysteria" sparked by predictions that the world is coming to an end this year.
BS Unnikrishnan
Jan 02, 2012
Lunar landing target set by China after US pulls back from space race.
Emanuelle Degli Esposti
Dec 30, 2011
Flying saucer enthusiasts quick to term mystery object, captured on film over Tijuana, a "mothership".
BS Unnikrishnan
Dec 28, 2011
New evidence of complex organic molecules have been spotted in the surface of Pluto by the Hubble Space Telescope, a study has found.
Nicholas Edmondson
Dec 22, 2011
As the Martian atmosphere is 10 times thinner than that of the Earth, even small blocks of rock crash into the surface relatively unimpeded, without burning up or breaking up.
BS Unnikrishnan
Dec 22, 2011