The Nicaraguan government has launched an investigation of the meteorite that struck an unpopulated part of Managua last weekend. The government has now called the US to provide help in its ongoing investigation.

After 20 years of search, astronomers with the help NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found a companion star of supernova in close orbit. The discovery confirms a long-held belief that supernova SN 1993J happened inside a binary system. It is a system, where two stars interact with each other and cause a cosmic explosion.

NASA is developing the Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) Lidar device to observe forests on Earth in 3D from space and also to enhance knowledge about their role in the carbon cycle. The device will be the first to systematically study the depth of the forests from the space.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has reported that an asteroid will pass very close to the earth on Sunday. According to the agency, the house-sized asteroid won't hit Earth.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) engineers are all set to launch first ever 3D printer in space. The printer, specially designed to use on the International Space Station (ISS), will be sent to the space station with SpaceX Dragon capsule later this month. Scientists will test its ability to manufacture items in zero gravity. The project is titled "3D Printing in Zero-G."

In September, NASA will decide which private company will build its next generation vehicle that will take astronauts to the space. NASA says the contract is worth $4 billion and is very important.

NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes have helped the astronomers observe the earliest stages of enormous galaxy construction. They have named this young, massive galaxy as Sparky. It has been termed as GOODS-N-774.

NASA has warned that a new sunspot spewing powerful X-class flares is beginning to rotate to a position directly in line with Earth.

If it happens then the X-class flares would cause major disruptions to GPS and communication signals and also to the U. S. electrical grid on which life-sustaining critical infrastructures depend.