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Venomous snakes changed the course of human evolution and eye-sight, shows Australian study on our pre-historic ancestors

Australian biologists have shown how our prehistoric ancestors have evolved to survive snake venom.

Dec 13, 2021

Hole above North Pole: NASA to investigate strange anomaly in earth's atmosphere [details]

As a part of the CREX-2 mission, NASA is planning to fire a rocket into the sky from Norway

Dec 3, 2021

New deep learning method adds 301 planets to Kepler's total count; none like Earth [read now]

Scientists have added a whopping 301 newly confirmed exoplanets to the total exoplanet tally. None of the newly confirmed planets are believed to be Earth-like or in the habitable zone of their parent stars.

Nov 30, 2021

Asteroid of Taj Mahal Size to Pass by Earth Today; NASA Lists it Among 5 Under Watch

The approaching asteroid will pass by our planet today, about 3.8 million miles away. The Asteroid Watch dashboard tracks asteroids and comets that will make relatively close approaches to Earth.

Nov 29, 2021

Avenge the dinosaurs, Elon Musk tells NASA amid DART spacecraft launch [details]

Once DART identifies and locks onto Dimorphos, it will kinetically impact the asteroid moonlet at a speed of roughly 24,000 kilometres per hour and shift its orbit.

Nov 25, 2021

NASA's Curiosity Rover Sends Beautiful Picture Postcard of Martian Mountain Top

An artistic interpretation of Curiosity's view high up on a Martian mountain was created by mission team members who were stunned by the sweeping landscape.

Nov 24, 2021

NASA all set to launch milestone asteroid defence mission DART today [Watch Live]

The US space agency is all set to launch its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft, intended to deliberately crash into an asteroid, on Wednesday.

Nov 24, 2021

Tiny Toothless Species of Dinosaur Discovered In Brazil; First Theropod Of Its Kind To Be Unearthed [Study]

A team of Brazilian paleontologists has described a new species of edentulous (toothless) dinosaur—Berthasaura leopoldinae— that was unearthed in southern Brazil.

Nov 22, 2021

New Species of Herbivorous Dinosaur Discovered In Greenland; Lived 214 Million Years Ago [Details]

In a multi-institutional study, researchers have described a new two-legged herbivorous dinosaur called Issi saaneq—which in the Inuit language means "cold bone"—that lived in Greenland 214 million years ago.

Nov 9, 2021

Asteroid 2021 UA1 just passed by Earth 3,000 km away, unnoticed by scientists

The asteroid 2021 UA1 reached Earth from behind, moving in the opposite direction of the Sun.

Nov 1, 2021

How to Find Hidden Oceans in Distant Planets? Use Chemistry [Study]

A new study shows how the chemicals in an exoplanet's atmosphere can, in some cases, reveal whether or not the temperature on its surface is too hot for liquid water.

Oct 28, 2021

Why asteroid Bennu's surface is rocky?

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu was long thought by scientists to have surface like a sandy beach, abundant in fine sand and pebbles, and to also have large swaths of fine-grained material smaller than a few centimetres called fine regolith.

Oct 26, 2021

Japanese skywatchers spot Jupiter hit by another space rock, second after Oct 15 on record

Skywatchers in Japan have observed a flash in the atmosphere of the planet's northern hemisphere likely caused by an asteroid slamming into Jupiter, the media reported.

Oct 25, 2021

It's Possible That Asteroid Hits Have Decreased Oxygen Supply on Earth

The vapours generated by each hit would have reduced the relatively modest amounts of oxygen left in the early atmosphere.

Oct 23, 2021

Rivers in this space body deeper than previously thought, could host alien life [details]

NASA scientists had previously discovered a weird molecule in the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan

Oct 19, 2021

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