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Astronomers from the University of Washington and the Harvard University have discovered Earth-like planet locked in an orbital tug-of-war with a Neptune-sized planet.

The astronaut crew will carry out a series of experiments in the Tiangong-1 space lab in the next two weeks.

Although several Chinese organisations are involved in the project, the primary contractor to design and develop the spacecraft is the China Academy of Space Technology.

Voyager 1 is a 722-kg space probe launched by Nasa in 1977 to study the outer solar system and interstellar space.

Nasa and the University of Copenhagen scientists make stunning discovery using the Kepler telescope.

NuSTAR telescope and data retrieved from several other telescopes will help solve fundamental cosmic mysteries.

NuSTAR, a black hole hunter with sharp X-ray eyes, will be launched from Kwajalein Atoll in the central Pacific Ocean.

Using the Chandra X-ray Observatory scientists studied two galaxies NGC 4342 and NGC 4291.

Astronomers believe that some of that "first light" might have taken travelled billions of years to reach the Spitzer Space Telescope.

There is only one brown dwarf for every six stars in our celestial backyard.

Discovery has great significance because earlier scientists had believed that it is impossible for microscopic marine plants or phytoplankton to grow underneath thick ice.

Astronomers find evidence about a black hole that was kicked out of its host galaxy at a speed of several million miles per hour.

Since 2000 B C, 53 transits have occurred and of these only six have been witnessed since the invention of the telescope in 1608.

Venus will appear as a tiny dark dot as it passes over the Sun.

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

A number of Nasa centers, federal and university agencies are coming together to study hurricane formations and intensity changes in the Atlantic Ocean basin.

Nasa forecasts less wildfires at the Amazone basin in 2012 compared to the previous years.

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.

Milky Way will collide with neighbouring Andromeda galaxy in four billion years, says Nasa.

Nasa's NuSTAR telescope will study the science behind the massive black holes.

Technique developed by scientists at Arizona State University working with the US space agency.

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.

Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington scientists find that carbon molecules in the meteorites came from Mars.

NASA has created more than 1,600 other products in computer technology, environment and agriculture, health and medicine, public safety, transportation, recreation, and industrial productivity.

During transition, people on earth will see Venus as a small dot gliding slowly across the sun.

Scientists are planning to use space technologies to kill harmful bacteria in the hospitals.

For Omega, the official timekeeper of the London 2012 Olympic Games, it is the 25th stint as timekeeper of the sporting games.

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