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  • Earth has a new mini-moon

    Earth has a new mini-moon; and it's there since 3 years

    February 27, 2020 11:22 IST

    Our new moon is probably between 1.9 and 3.5 metres across, or roughly the size of a car, making it no match for Earth’s primary moon. It circles our planet about once every 47 days on a wide, oval-shaped orbit that mostly swoops far outside the larger moon’s path.

  • Earth just witnessed its hottest January on record!

    Earth just witnessed its hottest January on record!

    February 13, 2020 23:57 IST

    The Earth experienced its hottest January in recorded history last month, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said on Thursday. According to NOAA, it was the 44th consecutive January, and the 421st consecutive month, with temperatures above the 20th-century average.

  • Early Earth's atmosphere was rich in carbon dioxide: Study

    Early Earth's atmosphere was rich in carbon dioxide: Study

    January 28, 2020 16:52 IST

    Previous work suggested the meteorites ran into oxygen, contradicting theories and evidence that the Earth's early atmosphere was virtually devoid of oxygen.

  • Earth's oldest crater from space rock impact revealed

    Earth's oldest crater from space rock impact revealed

    January 22, 2020 10:50 IST

    Based on impact simulations, the scientists said if the Yarrabubba-forming meteorite collided into a continental ice sheet -- like modern day Antarctica -- it may have released between 87 trillion and 5,000 trillion kilograms of water vapour into the atmosphere instantaneously.

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    Last decade was the hottest, courtesy Global Warming

    January 15, 2020 23:36 IST

    ​The decade that just ended was by far the hottest ever measured on Earth, capped off by the second-warmest year on record, two U.S. agencies reported Wednesday. And scientists said they see no end to the way man-made climate change keeps shattering records.

  • 17-year-old helps NASA find planet in habitable zone

    17-year-old intern helps NASA find planet in habitable zone

    January 12, 2020 18:23 IST

    Just three days into his internship, little did 17-year-old Wolf Cukier realise that he is going to make history -- in helping NASA discover its first Earth-size planet resting in its star's habitable-zone -- the way our Earth rests in its Goldilocks zone.

  • Jupiter acting as a slingshot, flinging dangerous objects towards Earth: study

    Jupiter acting as a slingshot, flinging dangerous objects towards Earth: study

    January 10, 2020 11:08 IST

    A study has found that the largest planet in our solar system - Jupiter - is slingshooting objectes into the inner solar system that could impact the Earth. It was earlier believed that Jupiter protects Earth from asteroids but new theory has suggested that it may be doing more harm.

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    Aliens living with us on Earth?

    January 08, 2020 18:54 IST

    A British astronaut has claimed that aliens exist and it was possible they were already on Earth. Helen Sharman, the first British astronaut to go space, said: "Aliens exist, there are no two ways about it. There are so many billions of stars out there in the universe that there must be all sorts of different forms of life."  

  • Another Earth? NASA's planet hunter finds Earth-size world

    Another Earth? NASA's planet hunter finds Earth-size world in 'Habitable Zone'

    January 07, 2020 20:02 IST

    NASA said its planet hunter satellite TESS had discovered its first Earth-size planet in its star’s habitable zone of its star. Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) discovered its first Earth-size planet in its star’s habitable zone, the range of distances where conditions may be just right to allow the presence of liquid water on the surface.

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    Wolf moon eclipse on January 10: Where to watch, timing of the first lunar eclipse of 2020

    January 07, 2020 7:57 IST

    Wolf moon eclipse: January 10 (Friday) is going to be a wolf moon eclipse night as we approach towards one of the four lunar eclipses in 2020. It is going to be a penumbral (partial) lunar eclipse when the earth will come between Sun and Moon.

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    Moon had its own magnetic field billion years ago, twice as strong as the Earth

    January 02, 2020 19:36 IST

    We all know that the Earth has its own magnetic field. But have we heard the same for the moon? Not until now. Scientists believe that a lunar magnetic field existed a billion years ago and was twice as strong as the earth's field today.

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    Earth's Magnetic Field racing towards Siberia at unprecedented speed, scientists baffled

    December 21, 2019 8:00 IST

    The Earth's magnetic North Pole has been racing towards Siberia at an increasing pace, according to a Science Alert report. For the first time in its recorded history, the magnetic north pole even crossed the Greenwich meridian, the invisible line that determines time zones.

  • Despite abundant water, this place on Earth has no life

    Despite abundant water, this place on Earth has no life

    November 23, 2019 17:42 IST

    The infernal landscape of Dallol, located in the Ethiopian depression of Danakil, extends over a volcanic crater full of salt, where toxic gases emanate and water boils in the midst of intense hydrothermal activity.

  • Earth's most inhabitable place found: Study (Representational Image)

    Earth's most uninhabitable place found: Study

    World | November 25, 2019 23:57 IST

    The study, published in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution, revealed that any form of microbial life was absent in the hot, saline, hyperacid ponds of the Dallol geothermal field in Ethiopia.

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    'Brightest yet gamma ray emission in space observed'

    November 21, 2019 13:42 IST

    The researchers, including those from George Washington University in the US, detected a burst on January 14 labeled GRB 190114C which led to a collaborative effort to observe the radiation coming from the source using more than 20 observatories and instruments around the world.

  • Mercury passes from in between Earth and Sun today

    In rare sky show, Mercury to pass through Sun today

    November 11, 2019 11:15 IST

    A transit of Mercury across the Sun takes place when the planet Mercury passes directly (transits) between the Sun and a superior planet, becoming visible against (and hence obscuring a small portion of) the solar disk. Transits of Mercury occur in May or November.

  • Mars once had salt lakes similar to those on Earth: Study

    Mars once had salt lakes similar to those on Earth: Study

    October 19, 2019 11:59 IST

    The researchers said that the salt ponds on Mars are similar to some found on the Earth such as those in a region called Altiplano near the Bolivia-Peru border.

  • Series of 'near-Earth’ asteroids flying past Earth this week

    Largest of 11 ‘near-Earth’ asteroids to fly past our planet today

    October 10, 2019 8:04 IST

    According to the European Space Agency (ESA), of the 600,000 known asteroids in our solar system, some 20,000 are NEOs and 800 are on the agency’s ‘risk list’ for observation.

  • One of world's deadliest fungi Poison Fire Coral found in Australia

    Deadly fungi causing speech defects, brain shrink found in Australia

    October 03, 2019 13:46 IST

    Experts believe that the fungi's appearance in Australia is most likely natural as there have also been unconfirmed reports of it growing in the nearby islands of Papua New Guinea and Indonesia.

  • NASA asteroids

    Asteroids to enter our atmosphere, mid air explosion to cause damage?

    October 01, 2019 18:45 IST

    NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) has set its eyes on three asteroids who are likely to intersect Earth's orbit. All of these asteroids are hurtling through space towards the earth at a breathtaking speed of thousands of miles per hour.

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