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CERN physicists are now in possession of new data that could point with greater certainty where to find the Higgs boson or “God-particle” which has long been sought by scientists.

The moon and other planets could be severely affected by solar storms and the accompanying coronal mass ejections (CMEs) according to a research by NASA scientists.

After its discovery of 1,094 exoplanet candidates on Monday, the NASA Kepler space telescope is expected to find more alien planets before the end of iots prime mission in November 2012, space officials said.

A newly discovered comet, categorized by astronomers as a “sungrazer,” is moving towards the sun and is expected to graze the sun’s surface in mid-December.

There is an “unspoken space race” among Asian countries which may fuel regional tensions and increase risk of space militarization, according to policy experts.

New research show that risks of developing bipolar affective disorder is increased if a woman experiences a psychiatric episode within the first 30 days after childbirth.

Do you want to know what planets are habitable? Search the answer in the Habitable Exoplanet Catalog (HEC) website, the new online catalog of habitable planets.

The earthquake that hit Japan on March 11 triggered the long-hypothesized "merging tsunami," researchers said, noting that data from NASA and European radar satellites captured at least two wave fronts that doubled the disaster's intensity.

Russia’s Phobos-Grunt spacecraft is currently in a 299 kilometer orbit and is slowly descending towards the Earth’s atmosphere.

Some stars in the Milky Way could be harboring giant terrestrial planets containing up to 50 percent diamonds, a new study suggests.

ESO’s Very Large Telescope has spotted the fastest rotating star known to date, rotating at more than two million kilometers per hour, more than three hundred times faster than the Sun.

A new study has revealed that 120,000 years ago, during the Eemian, the Dead Sea dried down, demonstrating how dry the Middle East can become during warm phases. The Eemian is a stage in Earth history when global temperatures were as warm, if not warmer than at present.

A report released at the United Nation’s annual climate summit in Durban, South Africa confirmed that the Himalayan glaciers are fast receding due to climate change.

Spacewatchers are looking forward to China’s next space mission after Shenzhou 8’s successful docking mission to Tiangong 1 space laboratory.

A massive collection of artifacts, around 3,000 years old, were recently recovered from the Cambridgeshire Fens in eastern England, including containers of food that have been analyzed as nettle stew.

A study showed that global carbon emission reached 10 billion tons in 2010 and that the average yearly fossil fuel emissions increased by an average of 3.1 percent starting 2000 up to 2010, and expected to continue to increase by 3.1 percent in 2011.

A novel way to harness the sun’s energy that mimics Earth’s greenhouse effect has been discovered by researchers from MIT.

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has broken the closest-approach mark to Pluto set by NASA’s Voyager 1 in January 1986.

New evidence from the Large Hadron Collider will soon finally resolve questions on whether or not the Higgs boson or “God particle” exists.

The discovery of 18 new alien planets, all of which are Jupiter-sized and circle stars bigger than Earth’s sun, has brought to more than 700 the list of known exoplanets.

The U.S. Space Surveillance/US STRATCOM has identified two objects associated to the Russian Phobos-Grunt spacecraft, and both objects are rapidly decaying.

Experts have dispelled beliefs that the world will end in 2012 based on the Mayan calendar.

A new study revealed that some ancient stars in the outer reaches of the Milky Way were found to have an unusually large amounts of heavy metals like gold, platinum and uranium.

A new study on plate tectonics will allow researchers to predict when and where earthquakes will occur, scientists believe.

A new study showed a giant exoplanet, which is about four times the size of Jupiter, doing somersaults into space and tugging four sibling planets along.

The European Space Agency's latest efforts to communicate with Russia's Phobos-Grunt spacecraft remain unsuccessul, but an astrophotographer and expert satellite spotter was able to track down the spacecraft and photograph it a few weeks after it was launched.

Astronomers have discovered two streams of stars in the Southern Galactic hemisphere that were torn off the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy, proving that the Milky Way galaxy continues to gulp down its small neighboring dwarf galaxies.

NASA's 1976 Viking Mission experimenter Gilbert V. Levin who had written in 1997 that his Labeled Release (LR) experiment detected living microorganisms on Mars, recently said that instruments aboard Curiosity can confirm his published claim.

A new study said that roundworms, which researchers has sent to the space station on the space shuttle Discovery's STS-116 mission in December 2006, may be sent farther, even to Mars, to aid human exploration efforts.