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Researchers want to discover how to maintain bone and muscle health during spaceflight and learn what preventive exercises could help. (Photo: Pixabay)

Space radiation can cause bone loss in astronauts: study

As NASA prepares for deep space travel, astronauts will also face increased, prolonged exposure to space radiation.

17 Dec 2017 4:41 PM IST

Representational Image. (Photo: Pixabay)

Year ender 2017: 6 of this year's biggest conspiracy theories

Some may shock, while others may leave you scratching your head.

15 Dec 2017 5:28 PM IST

Astronomers have found other seven-planet systems before, but this is the first time to have so many Earth-sized worlds.

7 new Earth-sized exoplanets found, could hold life

All of them orbit at the right distance to possibly have liquid water somewhere on their surfaces.

23 Feb 2017 8:24 AM IST

The country had on 24 September 2014 successfully placed the Mars Orbiter Mission spacecraft in the orbit around the red plane.

Find out why life on Mars is impossible

According to Oxford scientists, Mars was made uninhabitable when its surface water was absorbed into the planet's crust.

21 Dec 2017 4:13 PM IST

Nasas EM drive propulsion tech will propel us to the Moon in four hours. And to Mars in 70 days.

Solar wind turned Mars into dry, cold planet: study

The measurements show that Mars has lost 66 percent of its argon since the planet formed some 4.6 billion years ago.

1 April 2017 9:27 AM IST

Throughout its 4.5-billion-year history, Earth has been repeatedly pummelled by space rocks that have caused anything from an innocuous splash in the ocean to species annihilation.

Are asteroids humanity's 'greatest challenge'?

Astrophysicists monitoring the risk classify objects into sizes ranging from a few millimetres to behemoths 10...

28 Jun 2017 5:03 PM IST

An artist impression released by the European Southern Observatory on April 19, 2017 shows a planet named LHS 1140 located in the liquid water habitable zone surrounding its host star (Photo: AFP)

'Super-Earth' orbiting nearby star boosts search for extra-solar life

Named LHS 1140b, the planet orbits a star 40 light years away

20 April 2017 8:13 AM IST

Consensus has long been that the Earths core is about 85 percent iron and 10 percent nickel, with sulphur, oxygen and silicon prime candidates for the other five percent

Large asteroid to pass close to Earth today: NASA

The next scheduled close encounter with a big rock will not happen before 2027

19 April 2017 8:32 AM IST

Consensus has long been that the Earths core is about 85 percent iron and 10 percent nickel, with sulphur, oxygen and silicon prime candidates for the other five percent

Adopt a piece of Earth through NASA's new campaign

NASA is celebrating Earth Day through their Adopt the Planet campaign, wherein users can virtually adopt a piece of...

17 April 2017 3:52 PM IST

Evidence of more massive accretion onto the Earth than previously thought after the Moons formation. (Photo: Pixabay)

Moon-sized body likely delivered gold to Earth: NASA

The team determined the total amount of material delivered to Earth may have been 2-5 times greater than previously...

6 Dec 2017 2:53 PM IST

The object is in the Kuiper Belt, a distant region that surrounds the solar system and is filled with trillions of icy rocks that have yet to be explored.

Mysterious 'Planet 10' may be lurking at edge of solar system

This object would be different from, and much closer than, the Planet Nine - whose existence yet awaits confirmation.

25 Jun 2017 5:20 PM IST

Total solar eclipses occur somewhere on Earth every year or so, but most cast their shadow over oceans or remote land. (representational image

US total solar eclipse sparks spectator excitement

The moon will pass between the sun and Earth, blocking the face of the sun leaving only its outer atmosphere, or corona,...

22 Jun 2017 9:47 AM IST