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BRENT: With the mission surrounded by much excitement, NASA's space telescope ventured to detect signs of intelligent life from the...

Moon & other 3 planets shine before the end of this week

HONG KONG: Sky gazers will be able to feast their eyes on a rare celestial occurring before dawn this weekend...

How elephants reach to inaccessible food sources?

WASHINGTON: Researchers conducted an experiment to know how elephants could make themselves in reach of inaccessible food sources. They placed...

HST shows population of ancient white dwarfs

LONDON: Astronomers have successfully designed blueprints the Milky Way galaxy’s early construction phase with the help of NASA’s space telescope,...

1,300 years old tree uncovered in central China

BEIJING: chinese local authorities said that a Taxus chinensis tree assumed to be around 1,300 years old was found in...

West Antarctic Ice Sheet is melting at significant rates, scientists

HONG KONG: Researchers from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research found that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) is...

Archeologists found rat’s fossils which 10 times bigger than modern rat

MEXICO: With the discovery of a giant rat fossil, the size of a small dog, many are asking just how...

Paleontologists unearthed 278m years old reptile fossils in northeastern Brazil

HARROW: With the help of ancient fossils unearthed in northeastern Brazil, an international team of paleontologists has identified several...

Astronauts complete risky spacewalk outside ISS

LONDON: Spacewalking astronauts encountered leaking problems while trying to service the cooling system of the International Space Station (ISS) ....

Researchers developed 3D printing technology

WASHINGTON: Researchers have developed a 3D printing technology that creates medical devices such as catheters for premature newborns and surgical...

Indian astronomers discovered rare radio galaxy

LONDON: Indian astronomers have discovered an extremely rare radio galaxy - a giant, with an extent of a whopping 4...

Astronomers discover dying giant radio galaxy

PUNE: A giant radio galaxy dying nine billion light years away has been discovered by a team of astronomers of...

Fossils of tiny marine creature unearthed in Namibia

MEXICO: The first animals to have complex skeletons existed about 550 million years ago, fossils of a tiny marine creature...

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft completes record-setting Kuiper Belt targeting maneuvers

LONDON: NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has successfully performed the last in a series of four targeting maneuvers that set it...

2 NASA astronauts wrap up second spacewalk

WASHINGTON: NASA astronauts Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren on the International Space Station (ISS) ended their seven hour and 48...

1,300 years old tree found in central China

BEIJING: An endangered tree species believed to be more than 1,300 years old has been found during a census...

Diamonds may not be as rare as once think

WASHINGTON: Diamonds may not be as rare as once believed, but this finding in a new Johns Hopkins University research...

Scientists found a gene in native tobacco plant Nicotiana benthamiana

PERTH: Australian scientists have found a gene in native tobacco plant Nicotiana benthamiana which they assert will open the door...

NASA released comprehensive images of asteroid 2015 TB145

WASHINGTON: NASA has released comprehensive pictures of the asteroid 2015 TB145 that flew past Earth at a secure space on...

NASA’s HST takes images of ancient white dwarfs at Milky Way’s centre