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BENGALURU: A new Jupiter-sized exoplanet — a planet that orbits a star outside the solar system— with highest density of around 14 g/cm3 known till this date, and mass 13 times that of Jupiter has been discovered by an international team…

Jeff Bezos’ rocket company has won a NASA contract to land astronauts on the moon, two years after it lost out to SpaceX. Blue Origin received a $3.4 billion contract Friday to lead a team to develop a lunar lander named Blue Moon. It…

NEW DELHI: Scientists say the simultaneous events of an exceptionally warm and moist period ushered in by a "warm ice age" approximately 7,00,000 years ago and the expansion of polar glaciers played a critical role in permanently altering…

BEIJING: China will start building relay satellites that by 2030 will act as a communication bridge between missions to the moon and beyond, and ground operations on Earth, Chinese state media reported on Wednesday.A pilot of the satellite…

World Earth Dayis an annual event celebrated on April 22nd to raise awareness about environmental issues and promote global efforts to protect the Earth's natural resources. The first Earth Day was celebrated in 1970, and since then it has…

Life on our planet faced a stern test during the Cryogenian Period that lasted from 720 million to 635 million years ago when Earth twice was frozen over with runaway glaciation and looked from space like a shimmering white…

Nasa scientists have spotted a massive black region on the Sun, which is 20 times larger than Earth. The appearance of the “coronal hole” has prompted US federal agency National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to sound out an…

NEW DELHI: Methane-- a potent greenhouse gas -- traps a great deal of heat in Earth's atmosphere, but also creates cooling clouds that offset 30 per cent of the heat, a "surprising" new study has found.Greenhouse gases like methane create…

A newly discovered, 200-foot asteroid will come super close to our planet on Saturday, March 25. Called 2023 DZ2, the space rock is expected to safely pass by Earth at less than half the distance of the moon, according to Earth Sky. Its…