Hubble spots possible water plumes on Jupiter's moon Europa

The observation increases the possibility that missions to Europa may be able to sample Europa’s ocean without having to drill through …

Hawaii to begin construction of mega-telescope on July 15

Thirty Meter Telescope got delayed over planned site of construction atop Mauna Kea, a sacred mountain to native Hawaiians — already home …

Milky Way’s supermassive black hole exploded 3.5 million years ago: Study

The blast took place 63 million years after an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs; and when our earliest ancestors — the Australopithecines &…

NASA’s Hubble detects ‘sunscreen’ layer on remote planet

The discovery is important as a stratosphere provides clues about how a planet is formed and its composition

Water vapour discovered on potentially ‘habitable’ planet

Using Hubble Space Telescope, scientists also detected the presence of hydrogen and helium in K2-18b's atmosphere

Smallest-known galaxy containing a ‘supermassive’ black hole found

The black hole, according to the international space agency, is five times the mass of the one at the center of Milky Way galaxy

Hubble telescope confirms presence of water on Jupiter’s largest moon

Ganymede has a salty, underground ocean, according to observations made by the telescope

How did Uranus end up on its side? We've been finding out

Unlike all the other planets, which spin roughly upright with their spin axes at close to right angles to their orbits around the sun, Uranus is …

New physics needed to explain Universe’s expansion rate: NASA

Scientists are certain about veracity of a long-standing discrepancy in the value of the rate of expansion known as Hubble Constant

NASA’s Hubble telescope reveals stunning image of Pillars of Creation

Infrared and visible light gives bigger view, sharper quality to the iconic structure

Galaxy caught in self-destructive mode

Finding throws new light on the evolution and ageing of galaxies