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Virgin Galactic touches space again, flying 90 km above Earth
Feb 24, 2019, 04:41 PM ISTOn Friday, the company's rocket powered commercial SpaceShipTwo, VSS Unity reached space for the second time, higher and faster than ever before, as its world record-holding hybrid rocket motor propelled the spaceship at Mach 3.04 to an apogee of 295,007 ft.
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Scientists discover massive mountains under Earth's crust
Feb 17, 2019, 01:58 PM ISTTo peer deep into the Earth, scientists from the Princeton University in the US and the Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics in China, used the most powerful waves on the planet, which are generated by massive earthquakes.
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Earth may be experiencing warmest decade on record
World | Feb 10, 2019, 05:29 PM ISTThe decade from 2014 to 2023 could end up being the warmest in over 150 years of records, say scientists who predict that the global average surface temperature for the next five years will be one degree Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
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Earth may not appear as blue by 2100: MIT study
Feb 05, 2019, 03:34 PM ISTThe findings showed that climate change has been significantly affecting phytoplankton -- the tiny sea creatures -- in the world's oceans, which will lead to the change in colour -- intensifying its blue and green regions.
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Earth's largest extinction event wiped out plants first: Study
Feb 02, 2019, 07:14 PM ISTRoughly 252 million years ago, nickel byproduct from a volcanic eruption in Siberia drifted to Australia, kicking off the Earth-spanning cataclysm known as the "Great Dying".
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Total lunar eclipse meets super blood wolf moon tonight: When and where to watch
Jan 20, 2019, 09:00 AM ISTSome places, including the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles will be live streaming the phenomenon.
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Asteroid collision with Earth, Moon increased in last 290 mn years | Watch video
Jan 20, 2019, 08:49 AM ISTThe team studied the surface of the Moon using thermal data and images collected by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), and compiled the ages of all lunar craters younger than about a billion years.
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Asteroids pummelled Earth, Moon beginning 290 million years ago: Study
Jan 18, 2019, 03:12 PM ISTThe team studied the surface of the Moon using thermal data and images collected by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), and compiled the ages of all lunar craters younger than about a billion years.
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Nobel Laureates bury time capsule in earth for descendents
Jan 06, 2019, 04:41 PM ISTThis burying, or rather mummifying, took place at the Lovely Professional University (LPU) here, which is hosting the 106th Indian Science Congress and for which the three Nobelist - - third one being American-German biochemist Thomas Sudhof-- were invited to give lectures to students and other scientists.
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Stargazers to witness yet another celestial treat as brightest comet to pass by Earth today
Dec 16, 2018, 11:17 AM ISTFirst discovered by astronomer Carl Wirtanen in 1948, 46P/Wirtanen, with a width of 1.1 kilometres, orbits the Sun fairly quickly for a comet — once every 5.4 years — making it a short-period comet.
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NASA set to launch rocket to get closer look at Earth's atmosphere leaking into space
Dec 02, 2018, 11:31 AM ISTThe VISIONS-2 mission, short for Visualizing Ion Outflow via Neutral Atom Sensing-2, is scheduled to launch no earlier than December 4.
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Huge amount of water dragged into Earth's interior: Study
Nov 16, 2018, 09:00 AM ISTThe findings showed that loss of sea water is due to the slow-motion collisions of tectonic plates under Mariana Trench -- deepest ocean trench in the world.
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Earth has two moons, reveals report
Nov 10, 2018, 09:54 PM ISTAccording to the report, the team of astronomers managed to capture snapshots of the mysterious clouds lurking just 250,000 miles away, roughly the same distance as the moon.
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Where did Earth's water originate from?
Nov 10, 2018, 07:41 AM ISTResearchers noted that since comets contain a lot of ices, it could have supplied some water. Asteroids, which are not as water-rich yet still plentiful, could be a source as well.
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Delhi: PM Modi receives 'UNEP Champions of the Earth' award, says 'Indians are committed to save the environment'
India | Oct 03, 2018, 11:38 PM IST"It is an honour for Indians. Indians are committed to save the environment," PM said after receiving the award.
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PM Modi to receive UNEP 'Champions of the Earth' award tomorrow
India | Oct 02, 2018, 06:17 PM ISTPM Modi has been selected in the leadership category for his pioneering work in championing the International Solar Alliance and for his unprecedented pledge to eliminate all single-use plastic in India by 2022.
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Heads up! Did we just find 'Star Trek' planet Vulcan?
Sep 23, 2018, 04:44 PM ISTThe discovery was made using the Dharma Endowment Foundation Telescope (DEFT), a 50-inch telescope located atop Mt Lemmon in southern Arizona, US.
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NASA to launch satellite tracking Earth's melting ice on Saturday
Sep 13, 2018, 11:22 AM ISTThe satellite will provide critical observations of how ice sheets, glaciers and sea ice are changing, leading to insights into how those changes impact people where they live.
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New exoplanet twice the size of Earth found, 145 light years away
Sep 10, 2018, 04:56 PM ISTThe exoplanet 'Wolf 503b' is in the Virgo constellation and it orbits its star every six days and is thus very close to it, about 10 times closer than Mercury is to the Sun.
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Earth at risk of falling into irreversible greenhouse state
Aug 07, 2018, 09:59 AM ISTCurrently, the global average temperature is slightly one degree higher than that of the pre-industrial era and increases 0.17 degrees each decade.