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After the Sun formed, the solar wind likely slowed the rotation of the outer part of the Sun.

Sun's core rotates four times faster than its surface: study

The rotation of the solar core may give a clue to how the Sun formed.

2 Aug 2017 12:50 PM IST

Scientists dealt a blow Monday to the quest for organisms inhabiting worlds besides Earth, saying our planet was unusual in its ability to host liquid water -- the key ingredient for life. (Photo: AFP)

Earth's 2017 resource 'budget' spent by August 2: report

The equivalent of 1.7 planets would be required to produce enough to meet humanity's needs at current consumption rates.

2 Aug 2017 8:31 AM IST

Scientists dealt a blow Monday to the quest for organisms inhabiting worlds besides Earth, saying our planet was unusual in its ability to host liquid water -- the key ingredient for life. (Photo: AFP)

Other planets may never be as hospitable as Earth: study

It was thought likely that distant worlds orbiting stars similar to our Sun would go through water-rich phases.

1 Aug 2017 8:13 AM IST

Natural soils are thriving with life. They contain an incredible diversity of microscopic bacteria, fungi, viruses and other organisms. A single handful of soil can contain tens of thousands of different species.

To restore our soils, feed the microbes

Healthy soils should also contain microbiomes that help prevent disease, cycle nutrients and help reduce plant stress.

1 Aug 2017 1:10 AM IST

This combination of photos provided by Boston University shows sections from a normal brain, top, and from the brain of former University of Texas football player Greg Ploetz, bottom, in stage IV of chronic traumatic encephalopathy. According to a report released on July 25 by the Journal of the American Medical Association, research on 202 former football players found evidence of a brain disease linked to repeated head blows in nearly all of them, from athletes in the National Football League, college and even high school. (Photo: AP)

Untreated concussions could be serious, don't ignore it

Zavorsky went on to detail how this not only affects children's health but also their learning.

1 Aug 2017 12:05 AM IST

The latest imagery also details a group of three small, not yet released icebergs at the north end of the embayment. (Photo: NASA)

NASA unveils stunning images of massive Antarctic Iceberg

The satellite imagery is a composite of Landsat 8 as it passed on July 14 and July 21 and shows that the main berg,...

31 July 2017 12:54 PM IST

Consensus has long been that the Earths core is about 85 percent iron and 10 percent nickel, with sulphur, oxygen and silicon prime candidates for the other five percent

NASA balloons to study total solar eclipse, life beyond Earth

A research group at NASA's Ames Research Center is seizing the opportunity to conduct a low cost experiment on 34 of the...

31 July 2017 9:48 AM IST

The discovery will involve findings from the Hubble Space Telescope and NASAs Cassini spacecraft, which is orbiting Saturn.

NASA to observe asteroid flyby to test planetary defense tech

Scientists are certain it will come no closer than 6,800 kilometres from the surface of Earth.

31 July 2017 8:57 AM IST

Saturn (Photo: NASA)

Possible key ingredients of life discovered on Saturn's Moon

NASA finds Moon of Saturn has chemical that could form Membranes.'

30 July 2017 10:26 AM IST

The unmanned Cygnus resupply ship operated by the US company OrbitalATK is show making a delivery to the International Space Station in October 2016 (Photo: AFP/NASA)

Three-man crew reaches space station as US boosts research

The men will join two NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut already aboard the station, a project of 15 nations.

29 July 2017 8:34 AM IST

Scientists have found evidence of widespread water in the Moons interior. (Photo: AFP)

First exomoon may have been discovered

A second, smaller dip that appears ahead of or behind the planet could reveal a moon.

28 July 2017 9:09 PM IST

Scientists previously believed all stars in young nebulae formed simultaneously. (Photo: AFP)

Astronomers stunned by 3 different ages in a stellar 'nursery' in...

The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope in Chile spotted three distinct groups of baby stars in...

28 July 2017 7:44 AM IST