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Largest known asteroid to fly past Earth in 2021: All you need to know about the March 21 event
The US space agency NASA has said that about 25,000 NEOs have been identified till now.
China’s Mars probe Tianwen 1 sends its first image of Red Planet, readies itself for entering planet’s orbit
So far, the Tianwen 1 has been flying for 197 days and has covered over 465 million kilometres.
NASA’s Cygnus spacecraft, named in memory of Kalpana Chawla, to depart from ISS; Check time for live telecast
Before the scheduled departure, the crew aboard the international space outpost would pack the spacecraft with the SharkSat hosted payload
The Great Conjunction 2020: This Australia-based Indian photographer’s image has gone viral! Details
Christmas Star 2020: After a Twitter user from Sydney, Australia, shared the image on the microblogging site two days ago, the image has been liked 1.3 million times.
Christmas Star 2020 tonight! Jupiter, Saturn to align together in closest rendezvous in 400 years
Great Conjunction 2020: Though Jupiter and Saturn pass each other and align in the sky roughly every 20 years, tonight would still mark a unique event of Great Conjunction.
Close encounter between Mars and Earth
Mars and Earth got unusually cozy drawing closer to each other than they have in more than a decade.
Study finds answer to why Earth’s atmosphere became oxygenated
Based on a new model that draws from research in diverse fields including petrology, geodynamics, volcanology and geochemistry, the findings of Earth scientists from Rice University, Yale University and the University of Toky
April this year was hottest on record: NASA
Last month was the hottest April on record, according to new data released by NASA, making it the sixth month in a row to have temperatures more than one degree Celsius above the 1951-1980 average.
Cosmic dust unveils Earth’s ancient atmosphere
Ancient Earth's upper atmosphere contained about the same amount of oxygen as today, according to a new study that challenges the accepted view of our planet's atmosphere.
Small blue galaxy may spill Big Bang clues
A faint blue galaxy about 30 million light-years from Earth and located in the constellation Leo Minor could shed new light on conditions at the birth of the universe.
Young earth’s air weighed less than half of today’s: Study
Researchers from the University of Washington have shown how the early earth had a thicker atmosphere to compensate for weaker sunlight.
Comet craters brought ‘seed of life’ on Earth
Large meteorite and comet impacts in the sea created structures that provided conditions favourable for life on Earth, reveal geochemists from Trinity College Dublin in Ireland.
Microscopic ‘timers’ reveal likely source of cosmic rays: NASA
Microscopic "timers" have revealed the likely source of galactic radiation that we detect at Earth. Most of the cosmic rays originated relatively recently in the nearby clusters of massive stars, according to new results from
Supernova iron discovered on Earth’s Moon
This supernova hypothesis was first put forth in 1999 by researchers at the TUM who had found initial evidence in a deep-sea crust.
Virtual Earth-space telescope reveals new details of Milky Way galaxy; temp hotter than 10 tn degrees
Astronomers have created a virtual Earth-space radio telescope more than 100,000 miles across - a super-high resolution that reveals new details of a quasar and our Milky Way. The researchers were surprised when their Earth-s
Earth set for hotter, drier, wetter future: Researcher (March 23 is World Meteorological Day)
There is strong evidence that the Earth is already one degree Celsius hotter than at the start of the 20th century - and the past four years have been the hottest on record. All this is a a foretaste of a hotter, drier and we
Gene behind evolution of intelligent life identified
Scientists have identified a common ancestral gene that enabled the evolution of advanced life more than a billion years ago, and without which life on our planet would probably still be bacterial slime. The gene, found in al
Why no alien has listened to us till date
Why have we not received any call from the aliens out there yet? What if extraterrestrial observers called but nobody on Earth heard? As scientists step up their search for other life in the universe, two astrophysicists from
Object located around black hole 5 bn light-years from Earth measured
A team of scientists has accurately detected a structure in the innermost region of a quasar at a distance of more than five billion light-years from Earth. It's the most accurate measure achieved until now of such a small an
Total solar eclipse coming to Southeast Asia on March 8
Ever witnessed a total solar eclipse? Here's a chance for all those space lovers. Come March 8, 2016, the moon will cast its shadow as it is all set to pass in front of the sun, says NASA.
Meteorite death in India: Man in Tamil Nadu’s Vellore not killed by meteorite, says NASA
Meteorite death in India: Scientists at the US space agency NASA have discounted reports that an Indian bus driver in Tamil Nadu was killed by a meteorite, saying he was likely hit by a land based explosion.
Rocky exoplanets have Earth-like interiors: Study
The interior structure of rocky exoplanets orbiting other stars will have interiors very similar to Earth -- a thin outer crust, a thick mantle, and a Mars-sized core, researchers have shown using a computer model.
