Washington, May 15 (ANI): NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured images of three X-class flares that the sun emitted in under 24 hours on May 12-13, 2013.

Washington, May 15 (ANI): The discovery of hundreds of planet candidates around other stars by Kepler spacecraft, which was launched in 2009, has inspired a new book that combines both science and science fiction.

Washington, May 14 (ANI): A team at Tel Aviv University and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) has just discovered an exoplanet using a new method that relies on Einstein's special theory of relativity.

Washington, May 14 (ANI): Three members of the International Space Station Expedition 35 crew undocked from the orbiting laboratory and returned safely to Earth Monday, May 13, ending a mission lasting almost five months.

Washington, April 30 (ANI): Thanks to NASA's Cassini spacecraft, scientists have obtained the first close-up, visible-light views of a behemoth hurricane swirling around Saturn's north pole.

London, April 28 (ANI): Ireland is a hotspot for alien activity and pilots in the country have risked death to avoid spacecraft crashes, UFO experts have claimed.

Washington, April 26 (ANI): Thanks to NASA's Cassini spacecraft, scientists have found the first direct evidence of small meteoroids breaking into streams of rubble and crashing into Saturn's rings.

Washington, April 17 (ANI): A European Space Agency (ESA) project is aiming to demonstrate that two satellites can move as one single object with sub-millimetre precision.

Washington, April 17 (ANI): NASA's Wind spacecraft has provided new information about the changing conditions in the Earth's magnetosphere, a giant bubble created by its own magnetic fields.

Washington, Apr 12 (ANI): NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured images of a hardware from a spacecraft that the Soviet Union landed on Mars in 1971.

Washington, April 12(ANI): NASA's Cassini spacecraft has observed an ice cloud taking shape over Titan's south pole, the latest sign that the change of seasons is setting off a cascade of radical changes in the atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon.

Washington, Mar 30 (ANI): The dazzling rings of Saturn and its moons are likely to be more than 4 billion years old, scientists have claimed.

Washington, March 28 (ANI): A new analysis of data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft has suggested that Saturn's moons and rings are gently worn vintage goods from around the time of our solar system's birth.

Washington, March 27 (ANI): When NASA's twin GRAIL spacecraft crashed onto the Moon's surface last December, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's sophisticated payload observed plumes of gas that rose from the impacts.

Washington, Mar 27 (ANI): A Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) Dragon spacecraft successfully completed the company's second cargo flight to the International Space Station on Tuesday, with a 12:36 pm EDT splashdown in the Pacific Ocean a few hundred miles west of Baja California, Mexico.

Washington, Mar 21 (ANI): NASA scientists have confirmed the present location of the Voyager 1, saying that the spacecraft has not yet left the solar system or reached interstellar space.

Washington, March 20 (ANI): NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) helped astronomers to witness the last moment of the agency's twin GRAIL (Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory) spacecraft, when they were intentionally crashed into a mountain near the Moon's north pole on Dec. 17, 2012.

Washington, March 15 (ANI): Using images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, scientists have found new evidence that dark features in Jupiter's atmosphere called "hot spots" are created by a Rossby wave, a pattern also seen in Earth's atmosphere and oceans.

Melbourne, March 13 (ANI): NASA's Curosity rover, which is testing Mars rock, has found traces of clay - that points to a watery past.

Washington, March 7 (ANI): Astronauts of the future may be able to pilot a spacecraft using their thoughts.

Washington, March 5 (ANI): The Earth's twin planet, Venus shines like a bright beacon in images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, which is spying the bright, cloudy terrestrial planet from Saturn orbit.

Washington, February 28 (ANI): Tiny moons that can barely be seen hide inside Saturn's majestic rings, according to researchers.

Washington, February 19 (ANI): The international Cassini spacecraft has detected particles being accelerated to ultra-high energies, similar to the acceleration that takes place around supernova explosions.

Washington, Feb 16 (ANI): NASA's longstanding Cassini mission to Saturn continues to provide scientists with exciting new insights on moons Titan and Enceladus as well as the planet's striking rings.

Washington, Feb 16 (ANI): Deep Space Industries have proposed for the creation of a sentry line of spacecraft circling the Earth to intercept and evaluate incoming threats, after Friday's meteor impact in Russia and the near miss by football field-sized asteroid 2012 DA14.