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NASA discovers killer asteroid larger than Mt Everest on collision course to hit earth in 2027

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By Nirmal Narayanan

This asteroid discovered by NASA is larger than the Mount Everest, and an impact could cause massive devastation on a global scale

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Why is earth at risk even when asteroids are traveling millions of miles away?

Atmospheric and other factors in space could elevate the chances of the earth being hit by a rogue space body

By Nirmal Narayanan

NASA's Hubble captures rare celestial event of two galaxies merging, then distorting

Astronomers believe that Milky Way will collide with its nearest galactic neighbour Andromeda in four billion years...

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Night falls over radio telescope dishes of the KAT-7 Array at the proposed South African site for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope near Carnavon in the country's remote Northern Cape province

8 newly detected alien signals from deep space puzzle astronomers

The recent radio signals were detected by the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) radio telescope.

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) engineers set Chandrayaan-2 on a course that will take it beyond the Earth's gravitational field early on Wednesday, putting it on a translunar trajectory. The spacecraft is expected to arrive on the Moon's orbit

Chandrayaan-2 set on course to leave Earth orbit; put on risky lunar trajectory

India's Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft was pushed out of the Earth's gravitational field early on Wednesday on a linear path;...

By Prathapan Bhaskaran

Evidence of impact crater of largest meteorite found in Scotland

Now, the scientists need a high-resolution geophysical survey - a 3D seismic survey, to find out the debris.

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

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Blue Moon: Life on the Moon may not be too far away

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin revealed their first lunar lander, Blue Moon.

By Armaan Suhail

From Moon to Mars: Women astronauts to lead upcoming space missions

While Anne McClain and Christina H. Koch will become the first women astronauts to spacewalk, Jim Bridenstine revealed...

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Artist's rendering of asteroids and space dust

Here's how NASA plans to stop asteroids from hitting earth, causing another extinction

Dubbed the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), this would be the space agency's first planetary-defense mission.

By Micah Ong

NASA's New Horizons encounters Ultima Thule, transmits clear images to earth

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew past the distant object while setting the record for the flyby of the most distant...

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

NASA planet-hunting telescope discovers 3 new exoplanets including super-earth, 'Lava World'

It looks like HD 21749b may not be alone in its system as scientists also believe there is a second planet there that...

By Micah Ong

'Brightest Comet' to pass earth on Sunday; You can watch it without telescope

The phenomena will be one of the 10 closest comet flybys of the earth in 70 years and people can watch it with...

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

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Latest Space and Astronomy News

NASA discovers killer asteroid larger than Mt Everest on collision course to hit earth in 2027

Why is earth at risk even when asteroids are traveling millions of miles away?

NASA's Hubble captures rare celestial event of two galaxies merging, then distorting

8 newly detected alien signals from deep space puzzle astronomers

Chandrayaan-2 set on course to leave Earth orbit; put on risky lunar trajectory

Evidence of impact crater of largest meteorite found in Scotland

Blue Moon: Life on the Moon may not be too far away

From Moon to Mars: Women astronauts to lead upcoming space missions

Here's how NASA plans to stop asteroids from hitting earth, causing another extinction

NASA's New Horizons encounters Ultima Thule, transmits clear images to earth

NASA planet-hunting telescope discovers 3 new exoplanets including super-earth, 'Lava World'

'Brightest Comet' to pass earth on Sunday; You can watch it without telescope

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NASA's Kepler receives 'goodnight' command; Is exoplanet-hunting mission over?

SpaceX's Starman has crossed Mars in his Tesla Roadster

Russia to assist India in sending manned mission to space

Among thousands of exoplanets, scientists identify best candidates to search for alien life

Scientists detect rogue extrasolar planetary-mass object in space, just outside solar system

Harvesting energy from cold, near absolute zero temperatures of deep space possible now

Crew Dragon capsule destroyed in ground test: SpaceX

Flashback: When we met just Oxford-returned Prince Naruhito in Sept 1986

Flashback: When we met just Oxford-returned Prince Naruhito in Sept 1986

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