WASHINGTON: This week astronomers using NASA’s Kepler space telescope announced that the planet-hunting spacecraft had increased its catalogue by an...

Over 20% of world plants face extinction

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11/05/2016

LONDON: Modern civilization has not been kind to the world's flora. More than 20 percent of the plants known to...

China builds world’s largest radio telescope in search for aliens

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11/05/2016

GUIYANG: China has almost finished building the world’s largest radio telescope (FAST) and will soon start the test operation phase...

Mercury a black dot as it crosses face of sun

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10/05/2016

CAPE CANAVERAL: For the first time in 10 years, Mercury passed directly between the earth and sun on Monday, resembling...

Five Pacific islands lost to rising seas as climate change hits

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10/05/2016

LONDON: Five tiny Pacific islands have disappeared due to rising seas and erosion, a discovery thought to be the first...

China Exclusive: Chinese archaeologists test DNA from bones of ancient marquis

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07/05/2016

NANCHANG: Archaeologists are using bones unearthed from the 2,000-year-old tomb of Haihunhou, the Marquis of Haihun, to conduct DNA analysis....

Elon Musk’s SpaceX lands reusable rocket on barge for second time

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07/05/2016

LONDON: SpaceX landed a rocket on a robotic ocean barge on Friday, the second marine landing for the private aerospace...

Astronomers just measured a black hole, and it’s 660 million times more massive than the Sun

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07/05/2016

WASHINGTON: Just because we don't have an actual picture of one yet, doesn’t mean that researchers aren’t constantly trying to...

China bug declared world’s longest insect

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06/05/2016

BEIJING: A bug over half a meter (1.6 feet) long discovered in southern China has been declared the world’s longest...

A calming effect : Living near the sea can improve your mental health

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06/05/2016

WELLINGTON: There are very few people who don't enjoy the benefits of going for a walk by the sea or...

Gravitational waves team shares 3-mln-dollar prize

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05/05/2016

SAN FRANCISCO: A Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics was awarded to international scientists contributing to the landmark discovery of...

This artist’s impression shows an imagined view of the three planets orbiting an ultracool dwarf star just 40 light-years from Earth that were discovered using the TRAPPIST telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory. These worlds have sizes and temperatures similar to those of Venus and Earth and may be the best targets found so far for the search for life outside the Solar System. They are the first planets ever discovered around such a tiny and dim star. In this view one of the inner planets is seen in transit across the disc of its tiny and dim parent star.

Astronomers discover three exoplanets similar to Earth and Venus

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04/05/2016

WASHINGTON: Astronomers are getting closer to finding Earth’s twin in the universe. NASA announced that three planets with sizes and...

British scientists win share of world physics prize

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04/05/2016

LONDON: British-based scientists involved in the worldwide effort to prove Albert Einstein's prediction of the existence of gravitational waves was...