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NASA discovers 'Youngest Black Hole' in Milky Way:

NASA has claimed to have discovered the youngest black hole, named W49B, in Earth’s galaxy or the Milky Way. The black, located within a supernova remnant, was formed...

February 21, 2013

NASA launches TDRS satellite

NASA launched an unmanned Atlas V rocket carrying the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS). It is a communication satellite to stay in touch with its space station...

February 7, 2013

Scientists discover 10 million year old star still creating planets

Scientists have discovered a 10-million-year old star named TW Hydrae located 176 light years far from Earth may still be giving birth to new planets. As per NASA,...

February 4, 2013

Curiosity discovers flower-like object

Curiosity rover which was sent to Mars by NASA to explore the planet has spotted an unusual flower-like formation embedded in the Martian rock, along with a snake-like...

January 12, 2013

NASA to transform asteroid into space station

For the first time in history of space endeavors, a celestial object would be moved by humans. NASA scientists are planning to capture a 500,000 kg asteroid, relocate...

January 1, 2013

Rare supercomet “C/2012 S1 (ISON)” to appear brighter than Moon in 2013

As per astronomers, Earth will witness a rare supercomet, C/2012 S1 (ISON), rushing towards the Sun from the outer solar system and at its peak it may outshine...

December 29, 2012

NASA denies asteroid impact with Earth in 2040

The asteroid, 2011 AG5, which was previously thought to collide with the Earth in 2040 and had a collision chance of 1 in 500, will pass by earth...

December 28, 2012

Moon crash site named after Sally Ride

NASA has honored Sally Ride, the first woman in space who died  earlier this year, by naming a crash site of a pair of spacecrafts Ebb and Flow....

December 19, 2012

Longest extraterrestrial River discovered on Saturn's moon Titan

Images from NASA’s Cassini mission have revealed the existence of the longest extraterrestrial river system ever – on Saturn’s moon Titan – and it looks like a small...

December 19, 2012

Voyager 1 enters into “Magnetic Highway”

NASA’s spacecraft Voyager 1, which was launched in 1977, has entered into unknown area, which is said to be the edge of the solar system. NASA calls the...

December 10, 2012

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