BERLIN: Scientists have explained why Neptune and Uranus are different colours despite having much in common. The two furthest planets from the Sun are similar in...
BEIJING: China has launched three astronauts to its uncompleted space station for six months of construction work. The crew are Chen Dong, Can Xuzhe, and Liu...
PARIS: For millions of years, megalodon sharks were top ocean predators — and then came the great whites. New analyses of teeth hint that competition for...
BERLIN: Meet the “hedgehog,” a newly found feature on the sun that appears to radiate spiky jets of cooler gas against a background of hotter plasma....
LONDON: Delhi-based environmentalist Sunita Narain got a special mention by Britain’s Prince William in his tribute to Queen Elizabeth II during celebrations of the Platinum Jubilee...
KATHMANDU: A team of experts from the National Geographic Society has installed the “world’s highest weather station” on Mt. Everest at an altitude of 8,830 metres...
NEW DELHI: After successfully completing Moon and Mars missions, India is set to join the race with the US and several other countries to go to...
BERN: How many spiders can you name? I got to about 15 before I ran out, just a little shy of the full variety that are...
WASHINGTON: Some 13.8 billion years ago, the universe was born with a fierce Big Bang. For the following many millennia, however, it was more of an...
PARIS: Astronomers have spotted a new type of thermonuclear explosion on the surface of distant stars. It’s called a “micronova,” and it’s smaller than a classical...
