Science

NEW YORK: A team of scientists at London's Natural History Museum examined eight fossils from the museum's collection, and they...

WASHINGTON: For the first time, a spacecraft orbiting Mars has detected glass deposits inside craters on the red planet a...

were predominantly light-skinned and mostly lactose-intolerant. The findings, based on a rough analysis of genetic material extracted from the teeth...

FRANCE: The clearest photos yet of dwarf planet Ceres have been sent back by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, and the mysterious...

MUMBAI: According to the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), field biologists discovered 176 species of animals in India last year...

CANADA: A NASA astronaut is due to fly back to Earth from the International Space Station Thursday, but he had...

HONG KONG: The gigantic dinosaur known as Dreadnoughtus schrani -- believed to have been one of the heaviest land animals...

LONDON: Astronomers have imaged in unprecedented detail a distant galaxy near the edge of the universe and found that it...

FRANCE: The scientists at NASA including one of Indian-origin have developed a new tool that can predict solar geomagnetic storms...

HONG KONG: Saturn has the most magnificent set of rings of any planet in the Solar System. This network of...

MEXICO: Researchers in California say they've successfully converted sugarcane biomass into jet fuel in a process that can reduce greenhouse...

LONDON: A volcano in western Indonesia is now spewing large clouds of searing gas and ash high into the air,...

LONDON: The Hubble Space Telescope has captured detailed images of a solitary galaxy so far from any galactic neighbor it's...

CANDADA: The LightSail spacecraft has completed the primary objective of its first test flight: unfurling its solar sail. The vehicle...

WASHINGTON: Yellow-Breasted songbirds - buntings - are nearing extinction, according to a new study released Tuesday, June 9, 2015. The...

NEW YORK: A massive galaxy called SDP.81 has been discovered by scientists with utmost precision at the Atacama Large Millimetre/sub-millimetre...

LONDON: Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory have captured images of a butterfly nebula, generated as a dying star spews...

HONG KONG: Historians date the beginning of Europe as we know and love it today began about 5,000 years ago....

NEW YORK: Come 2018, it's almost certain U.S. astronauts will still be riding Russian rockets to the International Space Station....

ISS NEW YORK: Three astronauts have begun their return to Earth from the International Space Station, one month after a...