Science

LONDON: Since late-2014, the team-up between NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover on the surface and the MAVEN spacecraft orbiting the Red...

Oceans take 1000yrs to recover from climate change: new study

BAMAKO: The climate change is widely felt worldwide and it is upsetting the oxygen levels underneath the oceans and according...

Earth has become greener than 2003 despite Amazon rainforest losses

CHAND: Since 2003, the Earth has become greener, despite considerable losses from the Amazon and Indonesian rainforests, an Australian-led study...

Coming total lunar eclipse will be for early risers among us

LONDON: A total eclipse of the moon is coming Saturday, but so early that dawn will not have arrived and...

Toxic oceans behind mass extinction 200mn years ago

FRANCE: A new study has revealed that oxygen-depleted toxic oceans had key role in mass extinction over 200 million years...

Black holes do not gobble up information

BRENT: The information loss paradox" in black holes -- a problem that has plagued physics for nearly 40 years since...

Supernova crime scene shows a single white dwarf to blame

NUMIBE: Astronomers have determined the pre-explosion mass of a white dwarf star that blew up thousands of years ago and...

Polar bear can’t rely On terrestrial food: U.S. Geographical survey finds

LONDON: A team of specialists coordinated by the U.S. Geographical Survey found that polar bears may be eating terrestrial food...

Hubble captures Eerie Ghosts of Long-Dead Quasars

LONDON: NASA just revealed that the Hubble Space Telescope has captured some stunning images of a set of wispy, eerie,...

NASA sent ant into space for robot experiment

NEW YORK: NASA has sent ants into space to see if they behave in the same way as they do...

Ottoman camel skeleton found in Australia

PERTH: An excavation at the town of Tulln, Lower Austria, has led to discovery of a complete skeleton of a...

NASA set to test ‘flying saucer-shaped’ Mars Lander

NEW YORK: Flying saucers are the stuff of science fiction, but NASA is turning science fiction into just plain science...

Space has many 2 sun planets

HONG KONG: One of the most eerily alien images in the Star Wars saga involves neither light sabres nor Tie...

NASA, European Space Agency plan to shoot an asteroid in 2022

LONDON: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the European Space Agency (ESA) have joined forces to shoot an...

Skeleton of Ottoman ‘war camel’ found under Austrian mall

SYDNEY: Remains of a hybrid camel skeleton, recently discovered in Austria and previously misidentified as a horse or a cow,...

Astronomers found 200 “baby” galaxy clusters in the distant universe

NEW YORK: The 13.8 billion year old universe houses more than 100 billion galaxies. How galaxies form and develop is...

Radio bursts detected from space since 2007 follow mathematical pattern

LEEDS: Strange, fast radio bursts have been detected from space since 2007, and astronomers today are no closer to solving...

A new spin Optical Gyroscope Smaller, more sensitive

NEW YORK: A new spin on optical gyroscope technology could allow the devices, which are crucial to satellite and rocket...

It’s possible to send human to Mars without breaking bank, Planetary Society CEO

HAIFA: The Planetary Society CEO, Bill Nye, recently stated that it is possible to send humans to Mars without breaking...

Rare pola-dot ribbonfish fishes offshore Pakistan, WWF