New York: Monitoring subtle shifts in the Earth's offshore plates can provide accurate forecasts of earthquake magnitude and tsunami potential, says a study by an international team of scientists.This geological phenomenon called “slow slip events”
Beijing: China on Monday published photographs of the Earth and Moon together taken by the orbiting service module of the country's first unmanned lunar orbiter, which returned to Earth earlier this month.The photos were taken
Washington: In a pioneering work, NASA scientists have fitted the laser-catching telescope of the Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) into its place that will measure the elevation of Earth from space.The telescope will
California: A top-secret space plane landed today at an Air Force base on the Southern California coast.The plane spent nearly two years circling Earth on a classified mission. Known as the X-37B, it resembles a
Washington: The Earth is going to have 11 billion people by 2100, with the rising population exacerbating global problems such as climate change, spread of infectious diseases and poverty, says a significant joint study by
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida: Three space station astronauts are back on Earth.An American and two Russians landed early Thursday in Kazakhstan after 5½ months aboard the International Space Station. They returned in a Russian Soyuz capsule
New Delhi: The largest diamond ever found is not on Earth, but faraway across the galaxy. Scientists at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory tracked down the very cold and dim star.It's so cold, its carbon
New Delhi: Do you believe in haunting or ghosts? If you will go and hang out in these places, then you will surely start believing in those. Here is a list of 10 creepiest places
Bangalore: India's maiden spacecraft to Mars is ready to part with earth an hour after Saturday midnight and get into the sun's orbit for its long voyage to the red planet, scientists said Friday."The Mars
Washington: NASA has released the first-ever natural-colour portrait of Saturn, in which the planet, its seven moons and rings, and Earth, Venus and Mars, all are visible.The new panoramic mosaic of the majestic Saturn system
Washington : After a surprise meteor hit Earth at 42,000 mph and exploded over a Russian city Chelyabinsk in February, smashing windows and causing minor injuries, scientists studying the aftermath say the threat of space
New Delhi: Earth will remain habitable for at least another 1.75 billion years, a new study suggests.After this point, our planet will be in the 'hot zone' of the Sun, with temperatures so high that
New Delhi: Researchers at the University of Bristol have provided clear evidence that the planet's accessible reserves of gold are the result of a bombardment of meteorites more than 200 million years after Earth was
Washington, May 31: Astronomers getting their first close-up glimpse of a giant asteroid about to whiz by Earth found a surprise bonus rock. A smaller moon asteroid is circling the larger space rock, an unusual
New Delhi: This mysterious city in the foggy Yemen's Haraz Mountains can surely fire up imagination of anybody who decides to explore it.Al Hajjarah sometimes spelled Al Hajarah or Al Hajjara, is a village in
Moscow, Apr 26: A celestial body 20 metres in diameter will pass dangerously close -- 8,620 km -- to the Earth's surface in 13 years, an Italian astronomer has said.The flyby of the asteroid 2013
Moscow, March 9: Two asteroids, one of them bigger in size than the celestial body that burst over Russia last month, will fly by the Earth Saturday, though not as close as to threaten collision.The
Imagine that you're an astronaut who's been sent to establish a colony on Mars, where you spot something really incredible, and want to show it to your partners on earth. You might be able to
Kolkata, Jan 31 : A piece of rock will have a close encounter with the Earth Feb 16, coming closer than some of the geostationary satellites orbiting the planet, said an official.The near earth asteroid,
Lucknow: With less than ten days left for Kumbh -- the largest congregation of people on the planet -- to begin Jan 14 on Makar Sankranti in the Sangam city of Allahabad, the state administration
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