Students of the Apeejay School have brought laurels to the city by jointly winning a prestigious contest at the NASA's Johnson Space Center with two US schools.

Space Station Astronomers have discovered an extrasolar planet only three times more massive than our own, the smallest yet observed orbiting a normal star. The star itself is not large, perhaps as little as one twentieth the mass of our Solar System Sun, suggesting to the research team that relatively common low-mass stars may present good candidates for hosting Earth-like planets.

At 12:05 p.m. EDT, the Delta II rocket easily lifted the GLAST spacecraft off the launch pad, out of smoke and clouds and into a beautiful Florida sky headed for space. NASA GLAST launch took off successfully.

A Dutch satellite has been successfully launched from India. Students from Delft's Technical University developed the mini satellite in only three years, which helped to make it cheaper than a full-size one.

The good citizens of Phoenix spotted strange red lights over the city on Monday evening. Arizona Republic reporter Anne Ryman, who lives in Deer Valley, reported seeing four lights in a square shape that eventually became a triangular shape. The lights were moving to the east and they disappeared one by one. She said the lights were visible for about 13 minutes at about 8 p.m..

The capsule returning from the space carrying International Space Station crew landed 420 km (260 miles) away from the target site in northern Kazakhstan, but the crew are safe, Russian Mission Control said Saturday.

Virgin Galactic Heralds "The Year Of The Spaceship" with the unveiling of the designs of Spaceship Two and White Knight Two. Virgin Galactic can carry six passengers with two pilots into space, starting later this year.

NASA released an image that was shot four years ago by Spirit Rover, which shows a man on Mars. Actually it's like a man sitting on Mars sand and waiting for something or looking for something. This has raised many questions such as "is there a life on Mars"?

A pioneering NASA spacecraft Messenger becomes the first to visit planet Mercury in almost 33 years.

The Stephenville Texas UFO was reportedly seen by dozens of people as the locals claim to have seen a large metal object with bright lights flying low and fast. Some say they saw fighter jets chasing the UFO.

India aims at landing a rover on the moon as part of Chandrayaan-II which is planned for launch during 2011-12 time frame. ISRO is also planning to approach Japan and the US to allow the IDSN to track their on-going space missions Kaguya and the Mars Express.