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LONDON: Pluto has blue skies and patches of red frozen water, NASA announced on Thursday as new images were transmitted...

Giant asteroid will miss earth by 15m miles: NASA

BRENT: Space agency takes unusual step of issuing the all-clear amid fears that asteroid 8666 (2000 FL 10) was headed...

Pluto tries to one-up Mars

HONG KONG: In this column, staff writer J.E. Reich rounds up the most important and fascinating space news of the...

NASA plans to send manned mission to Venus atmosphere

LONDON: The Americans space agency NASA said that it is presently studying the possibilities to send a manned mission into...

4,500 years old skull solves African migration mystery

LONDON: British scientists have for the first time sequenced an ancient African genome from a 4,500-year-old Ethiopian skull that has...

Thousands of NASA’s space mission photos releases in Project Apollo Archive

EUROPE: Thousands of NASA's space mission photos, including every picture ever taken on the moon, have now been released in...

NASA plans to have human on Mars in next decades

HONG KONG: NASA has said that it plans to have humans living on Mars in the next few decades. Moving...

Pluto could actually be a planet which is alive

LONDON: The chief investigator of NASA's Pluto Exploration Programme has said that the biggest finding till date on the planet...

NASA’s Curiosity rover finds that basin repeatedly filled with water

CANADA: Water from north of the crater regularly filled the basin, creating long-lasting lakes that could have been a haven...

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft discovered Pluto’s blue sky

MEXICO: NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft discovered Pluto’s blue sky during the historic flyby of the icy dwarf planet in July....

NASA plans to manufacture oxygen on Mars

LONDON: After confirming the existence of hydrogen on Mars in 2001 and now the presence of water, the National Aeronautic...

NASA report details long-range plans for astronauts to live on Red planet

HONG KONG: NASA laid outs its most detailed technology pathway yet to eventually land humans on Mars, including plans for...

ISS will be visible from the North West over next few weeks

LONDON: The International Space Station (ISS) will once again be visible from the North West over the next few weeks....

Africans reveals how our ancient ancestors mixed, moved around the continents

CANADA: Researchers extracted DNA from a 4,500-year-old skull that was discovered in the highlands of Ethiopia. A comparison with genetic...

34 new plants, animal species discovered annually over the past six years

HONG KONG: Some 34 new plant and animal species have been discovered annually over the past six years in the...

NASA’s Curiosity rover finds that basin repeatedly filled with water

LONDON: Three years after landing in a giant Martian crater, NASA's Curiosity rover has found what scientists call proof that...

Glowing sea turtle discovered in Pacific Ocean

LUSAKA: It was like a dazzling spacecraft, the scientist recalls.Beautifully striped, like an incandescent UFO gliding through the ocean floor,...

Corals worldwide at risk from bleaching, scientists

HARROW: Corals worldwide are at risk from a major episode of bleaching which turns reefs white, scientists have confirmed. The...

Evolution of the giraffe’s long neck happened in several stages, study reveals

FRANCE: The giraffe is the world's tallest mammal. For years, the origin of its long, slender neck baffled the scientific...

Blue skies and ice water on dwarf planet