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The stardust, formed five to seven billion years ago, came from a meteorite that fell to Earth 50 years ago in Australia, they said in a paper published in the journal PNAS. read more

In 2019, when 17-year-old Wolf Cukier finished his junior year at Scarsdale High School in New York, he joined NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, as a summer intern. read more

The age calculator also tells users when they can celebrate their next birthday on a different planet. read more

Move over Isaac Asimov and HG Wells — it’s time you picked up the layered feminist science fiction of Joanna Russ, or the socially conscious speculative works of Octavia E Butler and PD James, the dystopia imagined by Margaret Atwood and Mary Shelley’s... read more

Expanding and contracting like the beating of the heart, Antarctica is the world’s fifth largest continent bigger than Oceania and Europe. read more

It would be impossible to imagine a spot on Earth where there is an absence of life, but European researchers have confirmed the non-attendance of microbial life in hot, saline, hyperacid ponds in the Dallol geothermal field in Ethiopia. read more

Launched in December 2014, Japan’s Hayabusa-2 probe on Wednesday finally departed from a faraway asteroid named Ryugu and begun its yearlong journey back to Earth. read more

More than 11,000 experts from around the world are calling for a critical addition to the main strategy of dumping fossil fuels for renewable energy: there needs to be far fewer humans on the planet. read more

Stand-up comedian and beauty pageant winner, knows how to make disparate worlds collide read more

Some 184 Catholic bishops had gathered at the Vatican with representatives of indigenous peoples, experts and nuns, to discuss a multitude of regional concerns, from the destruction of the rainforest and the global climate emergency, to land-grabbing... read more

The northeastern state is nicknamed as the Scotland of the East. Known for its beautiful hills and waterfalls, the state is primarily an agrarian economy. read more

This new technology “could make long-term travel possible and renew space exploration,” to Mars for example, said Didier Toubia, the head of the Israeli startup Aleph Farms, which provided cells for the tests. read more

In the scenario, simulated using state-of-the-art global climate models, India and Pakistan use 100 and 150 strategic nuclear weapons respectively, releasing 16-36 million tonnes of soot (black carbon) in smoke that would rise into the upper atmosphere,... read more

Happy Navratri 2019: Here are some of the best Navratri wishes, quotes, images, messages, cards, Facebook and Whatsapp status for you to share with your loved ones. read more

...A habit that kept his deceptively frail-looking body strong & hardy read more