Science

NEW DELHI: The Indian Space Research Organisation has postponed the launch of IRNSS-1D, its fourth navigational satellite, from the Satish...

National economy faces Rs 365b loss annually due to environmental degradation

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Climate Change Mushahid Ullah Khan has stated that government is doing its dire struggles to control...

High-tech camera in Chile telescope captures 3D view of 181 galaxies

LONDON: The Hubble Space Telescope has some competition. A telescope in Chile has captured a three-dimensional view of a part...

Discharge of ice into ocean occurring at alarming rate of 118 billion tonnes per year

MEXICO: Warmer water is eating away at the protective wall of ice around the Antarctic coast faster than previously thought,...

Discovery SDSS J0100+2802: Scientists discover black hole 12 billion times massive than sun

BEIJING: The scientists of Asia have discovered black hole which is 12 billion times massive than the sun. The astronomers...

Russia plans to stay with NASA on International Space Station until 2024

NEW YORK: News that Russia plans to stay with NASA on the International Space Station (ISS) until 2024 and then...

Heavy metal rains played part in formation of earth’s core, crust

PARIS: Powerful collisions between the young Earth and iron-rich objects within the solar system would have resulted in significant amounts...

Curiosity halts its work as NASA engineers investigate short circuit

NEW YORK: The US space agency, NASA, said that the Curiosity rover has temporarily halted work on Mars while engineers...

California, Syria can teach about adaptation gap

MEXICO: At first glance, California and Syria appear to have little in common other than Mediterranean climates. But two new...

Astronomers discover dusty galaxy which shines only 700 million years after Big Bang

HONG KONG: Astronomers have for the first time directly detected dust in a galaxy in the early universe. The galaxy...

360 degree view of solar eclipse from Space

HARROW: Astronomers are counting down the days before a total solar eclipse appears over Earth. But the highly-anticipated show on...

Cloud behavior expands habitable zone of alien planets

WASHINGTON: Meteorologists sometimes struggle to accurately predict the weather here on Earth, but now we can find out how cloudy...

Emperor penguins nearly wiped out during Last Ice Age

LONDON: Emperor penguins are somewhat heavyweights within their own species they are the largest living animals of this type and...

Mysterious craters discovered in Yamal Peninsula in Remote Siberia

HONG KONG: Although Siberia is one of the most inhabitable places on earth, but Mystery has found its way to...

Third spacewalk of US astronauts in eight days

NEW YORK: The US astronauts did their third spacewalk of International Space Station in eight days to set up two...

Photoreceptors on back side of eyes scatter light by nervous fibres, distort our vision

MEXICO: Erez Ribak, a professor at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology, suggests that until now it was believed that the...

Nasa confirms presence of methane on Mars, shows life once existed on Red Planet

NEW YORK: Nasa's Curiosity rover has confirmed the presence of methane on Mars environment which may hint that life once...

Chilling threat: Sea level rising faster than previously thought

MEXICO: Warmer water is eating away at the protective wall of ice around the Antarctic coast faster than previously thought,...

‘Mysterious coffin’ found close to England’s King Richard III’s grave

LONDON: A lead coffin unearthed from the same ruins of an English medieval church that yielded the remains of England's...

New species of ant Kohout’s spiny found in Northern Territory mine site