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Ride joined Nasa in 1978 and made history by taking part in 1983 Challenger mission.

Images will help scientists understand more about the solar atmosphere and its impact on the earth's space environment.

UCF-1.01 is located 33 light years away from earth, using Spitzer Telescope.

Soyuz TMA-05M will carry out a rendezvous and docking test with the International Space Station. Also on the cards is an orbital sporting event to mark the London Olympics.

The Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) from the strong Sun storm of 12 July is travelling at a much faster speed than previously thought and is heading towards the Earth. Scientists believe the phenomenon could cause a massive display of the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis)

Scientists have put an ancient gene into modern-day Escherichia coli (E coli) bacteria, which has been growing. The procedure will help researchers to observe and track any changes in the evolution.

Discovery to solve mystery behind formation and evolution of Pluto.

Scientists from Nasa find the big bang responsible for missing stars in ghost galaxies.

NuSTAR telescope, launched to hunt for black holes, has the ability to focus on high energy X-rays.

Non-profit space exploration agency, B612 Foundation unveils plans to launch first privately funded deep space mission.

An international team of astronomers detects major changes in the atmosphere of a planet, HD 189733B, located beyond our solar system.

Astronomers from Nasa, Cornell University and Sapienza University find clues to an underground ocean beneath Titan's ice crust.

The most acclaimed self-portrait of Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci is reportedly in a critical condition and may be beyond repair.

Caltech scientists have discovered panguite, a new mineral, embedded in the Allende meteorite.

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.