A recent study has found that water may have been brought to Earth by meteorites during the first two million years of birth of the solar system.
As per a report, the satellite will be launched from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket between 8 to 10 pm.
The general prevailing theory is that our solar system was formed billions of years ago near a supernova. However, the latest study, published in the Astrophysical Journal, begins with a giant type of star called a Wolf-Rayet star.
The new research, published in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, suggests that Earth's atmosphere is a better shield from meteoroids than previously thought.
According to a new research, present-day Mars is a cold and dry planet with less than one per cent of Earths atmospheric pressure at the surface.
Scientists are of the opinion that this may have important implications for the possibility of life in the ocean beneath the moon's surface.
Cassini ended its journey with a dramatic plunge into Saturn's atmosphere on September 15, this year, returning unique science data until it lost contact with Earth.
Ross 128 b is currently 11 light-years from Earth. The planet is moving towards us and is expected to become our nearest stellar neighbour in just 79,000 years.
A compound commonly used in hair bleach, hydrogen peroxide, made the eventual emergence of life on Earth possible, claimed a study.
Stephen Hawking said that to ensure the survival of our species for another million years, humans must boldly go where no one has gone before.
In a claim that has baffled scientists across the world, a Russian youth says that he lived on Mars before he was reborn on Earth.
Scientists have found that there are 20 new planets, others than the Earth, that are orbiting a sun and could support life.
Following yesterday's pass, the asteroid's next 'close-approaches' to Earth will take place in 2019, 2050 and 2079.
While burning coal today causes Earth to overheat, about 300 million years ago, the formation of coal brought the planet close to global glaciation or a snowball like state
David Meade predicts nuclear attacks and hurricanes will destroy the planet - triggered by a mysterious Planet X.
SpaceX also announced its new BFR rocket. The new BFR has the highest capacity payload of any rocket ever built, meaning it has the lowest launch cost, due to its status as a fully reusable rocket while also being the most powerful.
The long-standing mystery about the origin of cosmic rays, the high-energy participles that zoom throughout the space, finally seems to have found a solution
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft came within 17,237 km of Antarctica at 12.52 pm EDT on Friday, just south of Cape Horn, Chile, before following a route north over the Pacific Ocean.
By 2100, human activities will add 310 gigatons of carbon to the world’s oceans, a threshold that could ultimately lead to mass extinction
Two Pune-based scientists are involved in the discovery of two closest-ever black holes, in a super-massive binary black hole system, which is about 400 million light years from Earth
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