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Four students from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics entered the Lunar Palace-1 on Sunday with the aim of living self-sufficiently for 200 days. (photo: Xinhua)

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China tests self-sustaining space station in Beijing

They are part of a project aimed at creating a self-sustaining ecosystem that provides everything humans need to...

10 July 2017 8:09 AM IST

To understand how rainfall on Mars changed over time, the researchers had to consider how its atmosphere has changed.

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Mars soil may be toxic to alien life: study

The surface of Mars contains a toxic cocktail of chemicals that can wipe out living organisms.

8 July 2017 8:27 AM IST

$The high-speed collisions at the worlds biggest atom smasher created for a fraction of a second a baryon particle called Xi cc, said Oxford physicist Guy Wilkinson, who is part of the experiment.$ Science

Physicists find new particle with a double dose of charm

Physicists at Large Hadron Collider in Europe announced the fleeting discovery of a long theorized but never-before-seen...

7 July 2017 2:24 PM IST

$The cargo spacecraft mission provides an \important technological basis\ to build a Chinese space station (Photo: AFP)$ Science

Spacecraft unveiled for first Europe mission to Mercury

The craft has an unusual design, comprising a "stacked aircraft" carrying two orbiters -- one European, the other...

6 July 2017 6:39 PM IST

The elements that make stars over millions of years ago help make up most of the body with over two dozen elements in the body including sulphur and phosphorous. (Photo: Pixabay)

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The fastest stars in the Milky Way might not actually be from this...

A group of astronomers have shown that the fastest-moving stars in our galaxy are in fact runaways from a much smaller...

6 July 2017 10:38 AM IST

The attempt is part of SpaceXs effort to make rocket parts recyclable, rather than jettisoning the costly components after each launch.

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SpaceX launches communication satellite on 3rd try

SpaceX on Wednesday deployed a broadband communications satellite for IntelSat, after twice ditching launch plans.

6 July 2017 9:25 AM IST

$The full name of the predatory crocodyliform (nicknamed Razana) is Razanandrongobe sakalavae, which means \giant lizard ancestor from Sakalava region.\ (Image: Giovanni Bindellini)$ Science