A planet orbiting two suns has been discovered, turning the Star Wars mythical planet into reality. It’s a real-life Tatooine!

One of the fifty planets discovered by the European Southern Observatory can potentially support life. It is the most Earth-like of all the exo-planets found till date.

For the first time ever, scientists have inferred the presence of an alien world just from the fact that it tugs on another world that has been seen. The ‘Invisible’ planet has been detected!

The Jupiter Satellite, Juno, has snapped up an awesome photo of the Earth-Moon system. The real quality of this photo is its rarity. And Carl Sagan already told us how to interpret these!

A newly discovered planet is completely made up of diamond! It orbits a fast rotating pulsar, too! Wonders galore!

The Mars Rovers Spirit and Opportunity have sent back brilliant photos from the Red Planet. Here’s a select list. Enjoy

Now, we know of a planet, about the size of Jupiter, which reflects just 1% of the incident of its sun, making it the darkest object known to man. The temperature of the planet is just off the scales!

Strong evidence of flowing salt water has been found on Mars. This just increases the possibility of existence of life manifold.

NASA’s satellite for the Jupiter mission, Juno, will be launched from Cape Canaveral on 5th August. Find out more about the space craft and the mission

A small asteroid has been discovered which shares its orbit with Earth.

A new fourth moon of Pluto has been discovered, thanks to Hubble.

Neptune completes its first revolution of the Sun since its discovery in 1846. So it’s one year for Neptune, 164.8 years for Earth.

Voyager is at the edge of the ‘heliosphere’, going farther than any other craft before it or since.

It’s a rare spectacle, rare enough to make anyone get up just a bit early and gaze at the brightening eastern sky. From the 28th of April, continuing till the 1st or even 2nd of May, the planets Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter will be seen along with the Moon, all on the eastern sky just above the horizon.