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The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago released climate-altering sulphur, cooling the Earth far more than thought. (Photo: Pixabay)

Dinosaur-killing asteroid cooled Earth more than thought

The research makes a more refined estimate of how much sulphur and carbon dioxide gas were ejected into Earths...

1 Nov 2017 5:35 PM IST

Representational Image. (Photo: Pexels)

Planet-warming methane from livestock underestimated: study

The concentration of methane in the air has climbed 10 times more quickly in the last decade.

29 Sept 2017 2:08 PM IST

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

India's Mars Orbiter Mission completes 3 years in Martian orbit

India's low-cost Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) has completed three years in its Martian orbit, says ISRO.

26 Sept 2017 8:52 AM IST

Milky Way Galaxy (photo: NASA)

Cosmic rays striking Earth come from outside Milky Way: study

Fifty years ago, scientists discovered that the Earth is occasionally hit by cosmic rays of enormous energies.

24 Sept 2017 9:25 AM IST

To understand how rainfall on Mars changed over time, the researchers had to consider how its atmosphere has changed.

Ancient Mars supported liquid water: study

Mars had a surface environment that supported liquid water about 3.5 billion years ago.

19 Sept 2017 3:34 PM IST

A woman covers her head to beat the 35.5 deg Celsius heat on Monday afternoon.

Earth sweltered to 3rd hottest august, summer on record

The average temperature for June through August was 61.47 degrees (16.41 Celsius).

19 Sept 2017 9:38 AM IST

Christian numerologist David Meade has warned that the mysterious planet Nibiru is about to smash into Earth. (Photo: Pixabay)

Will the world end on September 23?

Conspiracy theorists say Biblical prophecy of 'Rapture' predicts apocalypse will occur on day sun passes through Virgo.

15 Sept 2017 3:54 PM IST

The Northern Lights are a result of collisions between electrically charged particles from the sun that enter the Earths atmosphere. (Photo: Mark Tarello/Twitter)

Amazing Northern Light display illuminates Finnish sky

Green, purple, pink and yellow lights danced across the sky in striking aurora displays over northern Finland early on...

10 Sept 2017 10:21 AM IST

Solar storms result from an accumulation of magnetic energy in some places. (Photo: AFP)

NASA captures images of strong solar flares

Out of two solar falres emitted yesterday, the second recorded to be the 'most intense' since December 2018.

7 Sept 2017 3:27 PM IST

Illustrated image of the exoplanet (Photo: NASA)

First evidence of water found on TRAPPIST-1 exoplanets

The Earth-sized planets orbiting the ultracool TRAPPIST-1 dwarf star 40 light-years away may have substantial amounts of...

5 Sept 2017 11:51 AM IST

A record-shattering NASA astronaut Peegy Whitson, 57, touched down to Earth on Sunday, finishing a 288-day mission.

Record-shattering NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson returns to Earth

A record-shattering NASA astronaut Peegy Whitson, 57, touched down to Earth on Sunday, finishing a 288-day mission.

3 Sept 2017 9:29 AM IST

Launched in 1977, Voyager 2 is a little less than 17.7 billion kilometres from Earth, or more than 118 times the distance from Earth to the Sun. (Photo: NASA)

NASA probe nearing interstellar space

NASA's Voyager 2 has detected an increase in cosmic rays that originate outside our solar system, the US space agency...

7 Oct 2018 5:21 PM IST