Tag: Earth

  GPS satellites suggest a halo of dark matter is surrounding our planet Ever since scientists have theorised that dark matter exists, concrete evidence of the...

Blue light observations of a super-Earth 40 light years from our planet suggest that it is a world with a thick, steamy water-rich atmosphere. Japanese...

One and a half miles beneath the surface of Earth in a Canadian mine, researchers have found pockets of water in rocks that have...

When we look at the night sky, the stars we can see are within our own galaxy. But there are also some fuzzy patches...

An earthquake of moderate intensity shook Assam, Meghalaya and Manipur at 7:15 am on Wednesday. The earthquake measured 5.9 on the Richter Scale and...

There is still some bad news for those who peeked out the window this morning and heaved a sigh of relief that the world...

Some people may interpret it as another sign of the approaching end of the world, but really it’s just an astronomical event. NASA reports...

Winding up stay of 127 days, a team comprising of three astronauts landed on Sunday night northeast of Arkalyk in the steppes of Kazakhstan...

Astronomers have discovered a new super-Earth planet around a nearby star that may have an Earth-like climate and be just right to support life....

On Earth, we take methane for granted. It's produced by living creatures - such as cattle's digestive systems and bacteria munching through our refuse...

Forget the diamond as big as the Ritz. This one's bigger than planet Earth. The universe just got a bit richer with the discovery of...

A planet which really does twinkle like a diamond in the sky has been discovered by scientists - its surface is littered with the...

To combat global warming, scientists in Scotland now suggest an out-of-this-world solution — a giant dust cloud in space, blasted off an asteroid, which...

A teenager has floated a £30 camera he bought on eBay into space to capture amazing images of the Earth. They look like they...

If humans follow Curiosity to Mars later this century, we’ll need cities modeled on ones that already exist in extreme climates on Earth. Here...

Humankind is facing an imminent threat of extinction, according to new research released this week by the science journal Nature. The report ‘Approaching a...

We live in a base-10 world. The decimal system governs everything from the binary functions of computers to the amount of change you get...