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NASA has announced a new program called the Planetary Defense Coordination Office. (Photo: Pixabay)

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NASA to observe asteroid flyby to test planetary defense tech

Scientists are certain it will come no closer than 6,800 kilometres from the surface of Earth.

31 July 2017 8:53 AM IST

Now, NASA researchers have identified the chemical fingerprint of acrylonitrile in Titan data collected by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile. (Image: NASA)

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Possible key ingredients of life discovered on Saturn's Moon

NASA finds Moon of Saturn has chemical that could form Membranes.'

30 July 2017 10:10 AM IST

Researchers at National university of Singapore (NUS) have created a special brew of beer, which comes with Lactobacillus paracasei L26.

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Burp! Singapore scientists hope for probiotic beer hit

Food researcher Alcine Chan, 23, experimented for almost a year with a recipe of malt, alcohol, hops and a strain of...

30 July 2017 9:42 AM IST

In this image made from video provided by NASA, US astronauts Peggy Whitson, above, and Shane Kimbrough work on the outside of the International Space Station on Thursday, March 30, 2017. An important piece of micrometeorite shielding was lost during the spacewalk. (Photo: NASA via AP)

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Three-man crew reaches space station as US boosts research

The men will join two NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut already aboard the station, a project of 15 nations.

29 July 2017 8:34 AM IST

Scientists have found evidence of widespread water in the Moons interior. (Photo: AFP)

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First exomoon may have been discovered

A second, smaller dip that appears ahead of or behind the planet could reveal a moon.

28 July 2017 7:47 PM IST

This unexpected discovery adds very valuable new insights for the understanding of how such clusters form. It suggests that star formation might proceed in bursts, where each burst occurs on a much faster time-scale than previously thought. (Image: ESO)

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View | 220-megapixel view of the famous Orion Nebula

Using observations from ESO's VLT Survey Telescope, astronomers have discovered three different populations of stars...

28 July 2017 4:54 PM IST

Plain quartz fiber, top, gains the ability to remove toxic metals from water when carbon nanotubes are added, bottom. The filters absorbed more than 99 percent of metals from test samples laden with cadmium, cobalt, copper, mercury, nickel and lead. Once saturated, the filters can be washed and reused. Courtesy of the Barron Research Group

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Heavy metals in water meet their match

Rice shows reusable, carbon nanotube-reinforced filters clean toxins from water.

28 July 2017 4:36 PM IST

The vast underwater lost continent of Zealandia extends from New Zealand north to New Caledonia and west towards the east coast of Australia. (photo: AFP)

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Scientists set sail to unlock secrets of 'lost continent' Zealandia

New Zealand sits atop a lost continent recognised as Zealandia.

28 July 2017 1:19 PM IST

This false-color view from NASAs Cassini spacecraft gazes toward the rings beyond Saturns sunlit horizon, where a thin haze can be seen along the limb. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute)

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Saturn surprises as Cassini continues its grand finale

This surprising observation is just one of several early insights from the final phase of Cassini's mission.

28 July 2017 12:51 PM IST

This stunning 4K snap was taken by a Sony a7S II mounted to the side of the International Space Station (Credit: Sony)

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View | Earth from orbit in 4K using Sony's mirrorless a7S II

This is the world's first commercial camera to be mounted outside of the ISS used to capture video in 4K.

28 July 2017 12:45 PM IST

Scientists previously believed all stars in young nebulae formed simultaneously. (Photo: AFP)

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Astronomers stunned by star 'nursery' age find

The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope in Chile spotted three distinct groups of baby stars in...

28 July 2017 7:40 AM IST

$Zapping worn-out cells in the organs of \middle-aged\ mice caused the rodents to live longer, healthier lives, a study said. (Photo: AFP)$ Science

Retina cells successfully regenerated in mice

According to researchers zebrafish have a remarkable ability to regenerate damaged tissue, including neural tissue like...

27 July 2017 5:27 PM IST