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Titan, with a diameter of 3,200 miles (5,150 km), is the solar systems second-biggest moon behind Jupiters Ganymede.(Photo: NASA/Representational)

-'Possibility of life-': scientists map Saturn-'s exotic moon Titan

The map was based on radar, infrared and other data collected by NASAâ€™s Cassini spacecraft, which studied Saturn & its...

20 Nov 2019 11:56 AM IST

This light-sensing camera may help detect extraterrestrial life, dark matter

This light-sensing camera may help detect extraterrestrial life, dark...

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have created one of the highest-performance...

20 Nov 2019 10:38 AM IST

The results of the study were published in the scientific journal mBio. (Photo: Representational/Pixabay)

Novel process discovers how microbes harvest electrons!

Researchers have revealed how one kind of bacteria -'eats-' electricity by pulling in electrons straight from an...

19 Nov 2019 11:24 AM IST

The findings of two researchers which include the relative age of Titans geologic terrains, were recently published in the journal Nature Astronomy. (Photo: NASA)

First global geologic map of Saturn-'s largest moon Titan completed

The map fully reveals a dynamic world of dunes, lakes, plains, craters and other terrains on the celestial body-'s...

19 Nov 2019 10:44 AM IST

$The mystery of sliding on ice can therefore be found in the \viscous\ nature of this film of water$ Science

Researchers find reason behind slippery nature of ice!

Researcher-'s have for the first time been able to demonstrate why ice becomes slippery enough for people to skate on.

11 Nov 2019 10:46 AM IST

The analysis found that for one specific sector - industrial boilers - technology is cheaper at cleaning the air than ecosystem upgrades.

Trees - a feasible option for cutting down air pollution around...

It is the plants and not technologies for cleaning the air near a number of industrial sites, roadways, and oil and gas...

8 Nov 2019 8:09 AM IST

Prehistoric ape from Germany was a pioneer of two-legged walking

Prehistoric ape from Germany was a pioneer of two-legged walking

Fossils unearthed in southern Germany of a remarkable ape that lived about 11.6 million years ago

7 Nov 2019 12:32 PM IST

$NASA probe provides insight on solar system\s border with interstellar space$ Science

NASA probe provides insight on solar system-'s border with...

NASA-'s Voyager 2 had crossed over to areas beyond the Milky Way-'s Sun-'s reach last year, learnings of which have now...

5 Nov 2019 12:08 PM IST

Boeing tests space taxi, one of three parachutes does not open

Boeing tests space taxi, one of three parachutes does not open

The tested CST-100 Starliner crew capsule however performed -'acceptably-' overall, being developed to ferry astronauts...

5 Nov 2019 11:23 AM IST

The spaceplane, roughly the size of a small bus and sharing many design features with NASAs Space Shuttle, was sent into orbit in 2017 atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. (Photo: SpaceNews)

Secretive military spaceplane lands in Florida after record-long...

The unpiloted X-37B, touched down on an airstrip at NASAâ€™s Kennedy Space Center at 3:51 a.m. ET after spending 780...

30 Oct 2019 1:26 PM IST

A lake that at the time was Africas largest - twice the area of todays Lake Victoria - gave rise to the ancient wetlands covering the Greater Zambezi River Basin that includes northern Botswana into Namibia to the west and Zimbabwe to the east.

Humankind-'s ancestral -'homeland-' pinpointed in Botswana

It has been long established that Homo sapiens originated somewhere in Africa before later spreading worldwide.

30 Oct 2019 1:21 PM IST

The device is essentially a large, specialised battery that absorbs carbon dioxide from the air (or another gas stream) passing over its electrodes as it is being charged up.

Research develops new way to remove carbon dioxide from air

The technique is described in a new paper in the journal Energy and Environmental Science by MIT postdoc Sahag Voskian.

29 Oct 2019 10:53 AM IST