China rushes to finish world's largest telescope

China is frantically giving finishing touches to world's largest radio telescope designed to find signs of alien life following NASA's recent discovery of 'Earth 2.0' with the planet-hunting Kepler......

Life's ingredients detected in far off galaxy: Rep

Astronomers claim to have discovered two ingredients that build life-forming amino acids -- the molecules methanimine and the hydrogen cyanide -- in a galaxy nearly 250 million light years away......

Toutatis to whiz past Earth

A mountain-sized asteroid will make its closest approach to Earth at 9:35 a.m. EDT (7.05 pm IST) Wednesday, reports NASA. Although asteroid 4179 Toutatis will come no closer than four times the......

Are aliens trying to contact us?

Are we alone?Human beings have been asking this questions for ages now.Now, a radio signal from deep space offers the best chance yet to answer this question.In February 2003, astronomers involved......