New Delhi, April 30: A new study has shown that how earthquakes and storms in the Himalaya can increase the impact of deadly floods in one of Earth’s most densely
WASHINGTON, March2: Microfossils up to almost 4.3 billion years old found in Canada of microbes are similar to the bacteria that thrive today around sea floor hydrothermal vents and may
Washington, Feb 23 :At least seven Earth-like planets orbiting the same star 40 light-years away and each may contain liquid water and be able to sustain life, astronomers announced at
Cambridge, Jan 7:Astronomers, using data from India’s Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT), have discovered two of the most powerful phenomena in the universe — a supermassiveblack hole and the collision
WASHINGTON,Jan: A rare comet discovered by NASA scientists will be visible using just binoculars to skywatchers on Earth this week for the first time, before the object heads back into
London,Dec14:New research, published in the journal Scientific Reports provides solid evidence that the Earth’s wet regions are getting wetter and the dry regions are getting drier. This is not a
Washington,Dec9:John Glenn, who became one of the 20th century’s greatest explorers as the first American to orbit Earth and later as the world’s oldest astronaut, and also had a long
Moscow,Oct14:A space nation, independent of countries on Earth, could be founded after a team of engineers, scientists and legal experts put forward proposals for an extra-terrestrial state. The project, which
California,Sept23:Every study ranking nations by health or living standards invariably offers Scandinavian social democracies a chance to show their quiet dominance. A new analysis published this week-perhaps the most comprehensive
Beijing,Sept21:China’s Tiangong-1 space station is likely to come crashing through Earths’ atmosphere in 2017. A Chinese official from the country’s manned space engineering division said that the space station, launched
Beijing,sept7:Resource-hungry China plans to start a deep earth exploration plan, which includes deep sea survey, to augment natural resources which will sustain the country for the next 5,000 years, an
Australia, September 1: Australian researchers have found what are believed to be the world’s oldest fossils, and along with them, signs that diverse life forms lived on Earth up to 3.7
San Francisco ,August31:Astronomers engaged in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) are training their instruments on a star around 94 light years from Earth after a very strong signal was detected by
Washington, Aug 18 (PTI) NASA is set to launch its first mission to return pristine samples of an asteroid to Earth, which will help study how planets formed and how
Washington, July 19: Using data from NASA’s Kepler spacecraft on its K2 mission, an international team of astronomers has confirmed a treasure trove of new worlds with over 100 exoplanets, some
July 15 :Animal and plant species are dropping so fast that the world biodiversity loss has reached “unsafe levels,” as per a new study. Habitat destruction has reduced the variety
United States, July 12: Two massive blob-like structures lie deep within Earth, roughly on opposite sides of the planet. The two structures, each the size of a continent and 100
Washington, June 28 NASA’s Curiosity rover has observed high levels of manganese oxides in Martian rocks which indicates that higher levels of atmospheric oxygen once existed on Red Planet. The
New York, May 3: There are nearly one trillion species on the Earth while 99.999 percent of species still remain undiscovered, the largest-ever analysis of microbial data has revealed. Biologists from