*ISLAMABAD - Here’s a hypothetical: a telescope detects an asteroid between 100 and 300 meters in diameter racing through our solar system at 14 kilometers per second, 57 million kilometers from Earth.* Astronomers estimate a one percent risk the space rock will collide with our planet on April ...

WASHINGTON - NASA's latest planet-hunting probe has discovered its first Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting a star 53 light-years away. The Transiting Exoplanets Survey Satellite (TESS) also discovered a warm sub-Neptune-sized world in the same system, according to a study published in the ...

WASHINGTON - NASA's spacecraft New Horizons has found new evidence of a "wall" of hydrogen at the edge of the solar system, encircling all the planets and objects orbiting the Sun. The "wall" is actually a vast amount of trapped hydrogen atoms caught up in the solar wind, which produce waves of ...

*WASHINGTON - Scientists have found evidence of the first ever planetary-mass object beyond our solar system. And it’s huge!* Probably a dozen times bigger than Jupiter, according to the researchers at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. They’re calling it a ‘rogue’ planet because ...

A cigar-shaped rock zooming through our Solar System -- the first object from a foreign star system ever spotted in our midst -- is cloaked in a coat of organic material, astronomers said.Dubbed Oumuamua, Hawaiian for "messenger" or "scout", the object was first viewed by telescopes in October. ...

A solar system with as many planets as our own has been discovered with the help of NASA's Kepler space telescope and artificial intelligence, the US space agency said Thursday."Our solar system now is tied for most number of planets around a single star," NASA said in a statement.However, none of ...

WASHINGTON: An ice-encrusted moon orbiting Saturn appears to have the conditions necessary for life, NASA announced Thursday, unveiling new findings made by its unmanned Cassini spacecraft. Cassini has detected hydrogen molecules in vapor plumes emanating from cracks in the surface of Enceladus, ...

ISLAMABAD (APP): The first environmentally-friendly smart solar and storage energy system would be introduced soon to help meet rising power needs in the country.The Smart Energy System has multiple features which allows it would be the most advanced solar and storage energy system in global ...

LAHORE: (APP) Chief Minister Punjab Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif on Monday said that solar system would be installed in 20,000 schools of South Punjab. Presiding over a high level meeting to review the implementation of Khadim-e-Punjab Ujala Programme, he said the programme would be implemented in ...

Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has approved the “Khadim-e-Punjab Ujala Programme” under which ten thousands schools will be converted on solar system across the province.Addressing a meeting in Lahore, the Chief Minister said a road show of renowned companies will be organized in ...