Washington, June 17 (ANI): A new project is asking people having an internet connection to help beam messages into outer space in an attempt to make our presence in the universe known.

Washington, June 17 (ANI): Scientists have discovered that a big asteroid that flew past Earth last month belongs to a new category of space rock, thanks to new radar images captured by the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.

Washington, June 16 (ANI): ESA's fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle, Albert Einstein - the heaviest spacecraft ever launched by Europe, completed a flawless rendezvous with the International Space Station on Saturday.

London, June 15 (ANI): A study led by the University of Alicante has detected what may be the first observational evidence of existence of a new exotic phase of matter in the inner crust of neutron stars (pulsars).

Washington, June 15 (ANI): A NASA-led study has confirmed long-held suspicions about how stellar-mass black holes produce their highest-energy light.

Washington, June 15 (ANI): Astrophysicists have detected a star of low luminosity, which within a matter of moments gave off a flare so strong that it became almost 15 times brighter.

Washington, June 14 (ANI): An international team of scientists (ASTRON) have used the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) to set a new distance accuracy record, pegging a pulsar called PSR J2222-0137 at 871.4 light-years from Earth.

Washington, June 14 (ANI): Researchers has found evidence that an extrasolar planet may be forming quite far from its star-about twice the distance Pluto is from our Sun.

Washington, June 13 (ANI): A team of astronomers from Taiwan, England, and Japan have used the Subaru Telescope to measure the distribution of dark matter in fifty galaxy clusters and found that its density gradually decreases from the center of these cosmic giants to their diffuse outskirts.

Washington, June 13 (ANI): Data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have helped astronomers to discover an unprecedented bonanza of black holes in the Andromeda Galaxy, one of the nearest galaxies to the Milky

Washington, June 13 (ANI): Using NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, researchers have found that temperatures in the Martian atmosphere regularly rise and fall not just once each day, but twice.

Washington, June 13 (ANI): An international team of researchers has mapped the motions of structures of the nearby universe in greater detail than ever before.

Washington, June 12 (ANI): Nearly 10 years ago, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory caught signs of what appeared to be a black hole snacking on gas at the middle of the nearby Sculptor galaxy.

Washington, June 12 (ANI): The bulk of material between the stars in our Milky Way galaxy-the cool hydrogen gas from which stars spring-is nearly impossible to find.

Melbourne, June 12 (ANI): Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman to go to space, said that she willing to make a one-way trip to Mars.

Washington, June 12 (ANI): Data gathered by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) have shown that lighter materials like plastics provide effective shielding against the radiation hazards faced by astronauts during extended space travel.

Washington, June 12 (ANI): NASA scientists have indicated that hunks of frozen carbon dioxide-dry ice-may glide down some Martian sand dunes on cushions of gas similar to miniature hovercraft, plowing furrows as they go.

Washington, June 12 (ANI): And Astrium in Toulouse, France is now developing the module carrying the telescope and scientific instruments of ESA's Euclid 'dark universe' mission.

Washington, June 11 (ANI): New images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft show that the plain-looking Saturn moon Dione may have once had a geologically active subsurface ocean.

Washington, June 11 (ANI): One theory suggests that most of the matter in the universe may be made out of particles that possess an unusual, donut-shaped electromagnetic field called an anapole.