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NASA launches InSight probe to get a first time view inside Mars

The probe will travel to Mars, set up camp and scan the planet's interior makeup for the next two years. This mission will study Martian seismology as well as its rocky interiors to get an idea of rocky planets everywhere.

May 6, 2018

Cake slices from British Royal weddings, including Diana's, up for auction

Five slices of cakes from different British Royal weddings will go up for sale next month. Julien's Auctions will sell the slices to the highest bidders at Planet Hollywood Las Vegas Resort and Casino June 23.

May 6, 2018

Virat Kohli signs for Surrey: India captain lauded for prioritizing red-ball cricket

Virat Kohli is likely to play six matches, including three County Championships fixtures, for Surrey in June. The Indian captain's willingness to play red-ball cricket in English conditions is being lauded by fans and cricket experts across the globe.

May 4, 2018

Artist’s Impression Of Gas Giant WASP-107b

The exoplanet WASP-107b is a gas giant, orbiting a highly active K-type main sequence star. The star is about 200 light-years from Earth. Using spectroscopy, scientists were able to find helium in the escaping atmosphere of the planet and amp;mdash; the first detection of this element in the atmosphere of an exoplanet.

May 3, 2018

Helium spotted in a comet like exoplanet for the first time

The planet is so close to its host star that the atmosphere is getting ripped off and pushed out, making it look like a comet with a long tail of gases pointing away from the star and it has helium in an excited state, making it possible to spot in the IR wavelength.

May 3, 2018

Facebook's digital colonization and opaque business model needs an Indian response

Lawmakers and regulators across countries have failed to check Facebook's access to and harvesting of individuals' personal data, especially from India where privacy laws are still not very robust. The Indian government and private sector should craft a response to this digital colonization.

May 2, 2018

If an advanced species populated Earth before humans, could we have identified them?

Earth has been around for billions of years and humans have been around for less than half a million years. What if there were an ancient, industrialized, intelligent, spacefaring species that lived and died on Earth before we ended up here? How will we find them?

May 1, 2018

Antarctic glacier with enough water to raise global sea-levels about to pop

Antarctic ice shelves are melting fast and a few checkpoints acting like corks at the edge of land is holding it all back. A massive study has been launched to find out how, when, and in what way ice at the edge of the sea interacts with the bedrock beneath it.

May 1, 2018

Longest possible straight-line boat ride in the world connects Pakistan to Russia

If you start at the southern beaches of Pakistan and travel in a straight line between Africa and Madagascar, a perfectly straight line through the globe would take you to Russia in a journey that is over 32,000 km long.

May 1, 2018

No, the Earth's geomagnetic field is not going to flip, only weaken

The Earth's magnetic field is weakening and this has led scientists to speculate that the field is undergoing a complete reversal. However, previous extreme events and their patterns show that this time, the magnetic field will wobble, but recover without too much harm done.

May 1, 2018

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Search Results for: Red planet

NASA launches InSight probe to get a first time view inside Mars

Cake slices from British Royal weddings, including Diana's, up for auction

Virat Kohli signs for Surrey: India captain lauded for prioritizing red-ball cricket

Artist’s Impression Of Gas Giant WASP-107b

Helium spotted in a comet like exoplanet for the first time

Facebook's digital colonization and opaque business model needs an Indian response

If an advanced species populated Earth before humans, could we have identified them?

Antarctic glacier with enough water to raise global sea-levels about to pop

Longest possible straight-line boat ride in the world connects Pakistan to Russia

No, the Earth's geomagnetic field is not going to flip, only weaken

SpaceX's Falcon Heavy - most powerful still operational rocket, 'too small' says Boeing

NASA's InSight lander attached to Atlas V, launch set for May 5

Earth will be hit by a civilization-ending asteroid with 100% certainty

NASA's budget kicks out human exploration of Mars, focus stays on Moon

Arctic sea ice found full of microplastics - when will we stop?

Time for India to follow suit? France, Germany, Netherlands, US banned use of EVMs [here's why]

Dhanush's Captain Miller has no buyers in Telugu states? Here's why

Deepika Padukone is a sight to behold in velvet gown; attends Academy Museum Gala with Selena Gomez, Dua Lip [see pics]