Chicago: Doomsday predicters can take some solace. Fears that a hurtling ball of fire can ravage the Earth has been laid to rest as a new study says comets probably won

London: Oxford scientists have created a transparent form of aluminium by bombarding the metal with the world

Not just an eclipse, it provides clues to the presence of life a lunar eclipse is considered very special astrologically. It is revered as a propellor of life-changing events. Now scientists revere it too

AHMEDABAD: In case the weather plays spoilsport on Wednesday, eclipse lenticulars, an innovative, weather-proof and all time total solar eclipse
cards which is handy and provides a feeling of total solar eclipse observation in the sky designed especially by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), could be useful to enthusiasts. But it won't be the real thing!

One of the balloons that will glide at an altitude of 35km with equipment to capture images of the eclipse on July 22
A city based research institute is planning to use balloons to study the total solar eclipse on July 22.

Rocks brought home by Apollo astronauts revolutionised our thinking about Earth and its peers.

Alok Jha and David Adam

In 2003, George W. Bush announced plans for NASA to return to the moon by 2020 and once again, though, the U.S. faces some serious competition. The same year , Yang Lee Wei became China

evolution Link...or is it? A well-preserved fossil of primitive lemur Darwinius masilla, nicknamed Ida is believed to represent the point from which the group of monkeys, apes and humans (anthropoids) evolved. The fossil lacks the traits which characterize a modern lemur, a non-human primate. Instead it has a bone in the ankle that has a human-primate shape and it has thumbs,

Washington, June 28: The Sun, a star at the centre of the solar system, is known to provide ideal conditions for life to thrive on earth. But, astronomers have claimed that it also leaves the planet wide open to harmful cosmic rays.

Planetary scientists have provided a view of what life may have looked like on ancient earth and other planets in the solar system, including Mars.

In its study, an international team, led by Curtin University of Technology and University of Western Australia, focused on deposits formed by microbes in ancient sediment cavities in Pilbara sandstone.

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