Chicago: A heavy bombardment by asteroids the size of Ireland was not enough to wipe out life on Earth 3.9 billion years ago, researchers said in a finding that turns back the clock of life by 500 million years.
Mars may have once been both cold and wet, researchers said Wednesday, suggesting a freezing Martian landscape could still have produced water needed to sustain life.
There is no crying in space, but Monday was perhaps as close as it gets to a blubberfest in space helmets.
As he headed into the airlock of the space shuttle Atlantis after the fifth and final spacewalk to tune up the Hubble Space Telescope, the astronaut and astronomer John M. Grunsfeld paused to pay tribute to the telescope and the human spirit.
A rocket carrying the largest telescope ever made has been sent into space on a mission that scientists hope will help unravel the mystery of the creation of the universe. The Ariane 5 rocket of the European Space Agency, left, launched Thursday from Kourou, carries the Herschel space telescope and the Planck spacecraft.
Assam is preparing to view the longest duration total solar eclipse that was last visible in the State way back in 1840 and would not be visible again in the State in the coming 900 years.
It was snap, crackle and pop in the early days of the universe. You would not want to live there. Astronomers said Tuesday that they had smashed the long-distance record in astronomy when they recorded an explosion, probably a massive early star, that lived and died 13 billion years ago, only about 600 million years after the Big Bang.
AHMEDABAD: Global climatic changes are affecting local weather and climatic conditions, observed Sanjay Limaye, planetary scientist from University of Wisconsin, US, during a popular science lecture organised at Gujarat Science City on Tuesday.
