After an extensive year-and-a-half search, NASA has picked eight new potential astronauts who will help the agency push the boundaries of exploration and travel to new destinations in the solar system.
June 18 2013, 7:09 pm
Read MoreIn order to improve a simulation designed to study the evolution of the solar system through time, numerical mathematical methods have been developed at the Computing Faculty of the University of the Basque Country.
April 13 2013, 12:49 pm
Read MoreScientists have studied two dead stars, which they say are giving us a glimpse as to how our Solar System might look like a few billion years from now.
May 11 2013, 12:45 am
Read MoreResearchers have found that the water found on the moon, like that on Earth, came from small meteorites called carbonaceous chondrites in the first 100 million years or so after the solar system formed.
May 10 2013, 2:12 pm
Read MoreNASA`s IBEX, which was launch in October 2008, has been providing images of the invisible interactions between our home in the galaxy and interstellar space.
February 6 2013, 4:40 pm
Read MoreAstronomers used NASA`s Swift satellite to check out comet C/2012 S1 (ISON), which may become one of the most dazzling in decades when it goes around the sun later this year.
March 30 2013, 7:21 pm
Read MoreAstronomers from NASA`s Kepler project have discovered a mini planet which is the smallest known world outside our solar system.
February 21 2013, 9:32 am
Read MoreExperts have assessed what needs to be done when an asteroid approaches earth, like the one in February, when one slammed into our atmosphere and exploded high over Russia`s Ural region, injuring hundreds.
May 8 2013, 6:26 pm
Read MoreA new study has challenged the notion that the force of an exploding star forced the formation of the solar system.
December 18 2012, 6:33 pm
Read MoreNew evidence obtained by University of Leicester planetary scientists have suggested that auroras-similar to Earth`s Aurora Borealis - also occur on bodies outside our solar system.
January 22 2013, 10:45 am
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