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See Pic: ISRO shares first colour image of earth captured by INSAT-3DR
India | Sep 19, 2016, 06:01 PM ISTIndian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has released the first colour image of earth captured by INSAT-3DR, an advanced weather satellite today. ISRO took to microblogging website Twitter to share the first colour image of planet
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NASA spots ‘cluster of galaxies’ 11.1 billion light-years from earth (Video)
World | Sep 01, 2016, 10:45 AM ISTNASA has just discovered cluster of galaxies 11.1 billion light-years away from Earth, making it the most distant ever to be identified. Scientists have set a new record for spotting the distant galaxy cluster, a
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This new analysis method may narrow down search for Earth 2.0
World | Aug 26, 2016, 11:36 AM ISTA new method for analysing the chemical composition of stars may help scientists find alien planets where life like ours can form, a new study has found. Researchers from Yale University in the US have
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See Pics! 50 years ago, NASA spacecraft captured this first-ever image of Earth from the moon
World | Aug 25, 2016, 04:28 PM ISTFifty years ago, NASA’S Lunar Orbiter 1 captured the very first image of the Earth from the moon’s orbit. The photo was sent to Earth by the unmanned robotic spacecraft and was received at the
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Scientists find Earth-like planet orbiting star closest to Sun
World | Aug 25, 2016, 09:39 AM ISTIn a major step in the quest to find out if life exists elsewhere in the universe, scientists have discovered a planet that appears to be similar to Earth circling the star closest to the sun.
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Venus-like exoplanet may be brimming with oxygen but has no life, claims study
World | Aug 19, 2016, 03:50 PM ISTResearchers have reported that the discovery of Venus-like distant planet GJ 1132b, located 39 light years away from our home planet, may have oxygen but has no signs of life on it. The researchers
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Discovered: ‘Second Earth’ close to our planet that could potentially support life
World | Aug 17, 2016, 02:39 PM ISTIn an indication of the possible presence of life on an alien planet, scientists have discovered another planet similar to earth that could support life, just outside our solar system. According to reports, the
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China launches high-resolution satellite to obtain accurate images of earth
World | Aug 10, 2016, 01:58 PM ISTChina today launched a high resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imaging satellite so as to obtain accurate pictures of earth. The satellite, which was launched from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre in northern Shanxi
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NASA to send spacecraft to probe asteroid that may destroy Earth
World | Aug 01, 2016, 03:37 PM ISTAn asteroid that will pass by the earth, as it does every six years, has scientists deeply worried. So much so, that NASA has said that they are sending a probe team to the asteroid's
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Early animals may have caused first mass extinction, say researchers
World | Jul 31, 2016, 07:17 AM ISTIn a new study, researchers, it has been discovered that new fossil found in southeast African country of Namibia reinforces the theory suggesting that the world’s first mass extinction was caused due to the planet's
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NASA's new planet hunter will now search for life near Earth
World | Jul 29, 2016, 05:27 PM ISTFurthering its endeavour to reveal the hidden mysteries of the universe, US-based NASA is now training its focus on hunting Earth-sized planets nearby. The scout begins with the launch of the planet-hunting Transiting Exoplanet Survey
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Kepler-80: The ‘alien solar system’ where one year is as long as a day on Earth
World | Jul 25, 2016, 05:24 PM ISTAstronomers have discovered a bizarre ‘alien’ solar system that has planets orbiting its star so tightly that one of them has a year as along as a day on planet Earth.
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‘Rape has been there since creation of Earth’: Haryana woman BJP leader
National | Jul 23, 2016, 07:27 AM ISTBJP Haryana unit women’s cell chief Nirmal Bairagi on Friday said that “incidents of rape have been there since the creation of Earth”.
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Watch: Methane explosions leave Earth’s surface WOBBLING and it is SCARY
World | Jul 21, 2016, 06:03 PM ISTNew Delhi: Our earth and its surface is full of several mysteries which has left the human kind bewildered for several years. From the eerie secret of the Bermuda Triangle to exact earthquake predictions, scientists
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In just 3 minutes, watch an epic timelapse capturing entire year on earth from million miles away
World | Jul 21, 2016, 01:35 PM ISTNew Delhi: A spacecraft named EPIC, which is part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrational Deep Space Climate Observatory (DISCOVR) has captured the breathtaking images of Earth and converted it in the form of
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Picture Perfect! NASA celebrates Pluto stamp that has travelled 3.5 billion miles from Earth
World | Jul 21, 2016, 08:53 AM ISTWashington: NASA is celebrating a 29-cent Pluto-themed postage stamp stuck to the side of the New Horizons spacecraft that has traveled nearly 3.5 billion miles from Earth. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is also carrying a
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Life at Venus! Slightly different conditions could have made it our home, not Earth
World | Jul 07, 2016, 07:38 AM ISTWashington DC: If there had been just tiny evolutionary changes, life could have been existed on Venus and not Earth, a new study has claimed. According to a a hypothesis by Rice University scientists, these
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A long distance relationship begins today! Earth moved farthest from the Sun on July 4
World | Jul 04, 2016, 07:07 PM ISTNew Delhi: Earth will be the farthest from the Sun today i.e on 4 July at 05:24 pm GMT ( 09:54 PM IST). This astronomical event called the 'aphelion', happens every year, but the
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What's up with the giant hole in Ozone layer?
Lifestyle | Jul 02, 2016, 12:10 PM ISTMiami: Signaling a positive sign for the environment, a group of researchers today stated that the hole in the ozone layer over the Antarctic has begun to shrink. Since 2000, the September ozone hole was
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Not just two, ancient earth had several magnetic poles: Study
India | Jun 28, 2016, 02:13 PM ISTNew Delhi: Earlier it was considered that the planet Earth conveniently has two poles — one in the north and one in the south and these two protect us from the harmful cosmic rays and