Amateur astronomers find 42 new planets

Prime News Desk. Date: 2013-01-21 Time : 14:11:19

A team of amateur astronomers from around the world has discovered evidence for 42 alien planets, including a Jupiter-size world that could potentially be habitable, reports Daily Mail. The team organised online via the planethunters website, analysed data from Nasa's Kepler Space telescope. Moons like the one depicted in the film Avatar may be among the most common places to find alien life, scientists believe. Astronomers came to the ...Details »

NASA beams Mona Lisa to moon with laser

Prime News Desk. Date: 2013-01-19 Time : 12:44:53

Call it the ultimate in high art: Using a well-timed laser, NASA scientists have beamed a picture of Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece, the Mona Lisa, to a powerful spacecraft orbiting ...Details »

NASA, Europeans uniting to send space capsule to moon

Prime News Desk. Date: 2013-01-17 Time : 13:50:16

NASA is teaming up with the European Space Agency to get astronauts beyond Earth's orbit. Europe will provide the propulsion and power compartment for NASA's Orion crew ...Details »

Scientists discover oldest star in universe

Prime News Desk. Date: 2013-01-15 Time : 13:27:06

Scientists have identified a star, at least 13.2 billion-years-old, as the oldest yet seen in the universe and it is just 186 light years away from Earth. The Big Bang is calculated ...Details »

Pill-sized scanner images gullet

Prime news desk. Date: 2013-01-14 Time : 18:16:23

Doctors have made a pill-sized device that can take detailed microscopic images of inside the gullet. It is hoped the US technology could become an easier way of screening people for ...Details »

End to needle for diabetes

Insulin breakthrough could see needlesless more effective treatment

Sydney: Breakthrough Australian research mapping how insulin works at a molecular level could ...Details »

Mars rover finally looks set to drill

Nasa's Curiosity rover is very close to drilling into its first Martian rock, with the ...Details »

Samsung teases 'unprecedented new TV shape' set to be revealed soon

Gadget maker Samsung is believed to be set to reveal a radical new 'portrait' TV screen ...Details »

First 'alien Earth' to be found in 2013

New York: The first truly Earth-like alien planet is likely to be spotted next year, scientists ...Details »

Road trip on tap for NASA's Mars rover in new year

California: Since captivating the world with its acrobatic landing, the Mars rover Curiosity has ...Details »

Scientists decode why universe is dominated by matter

Washington: Scientists have solved the puzzle of the universe being dominated by matter rather ...Details »

Alien-like skulls found at 1,000 year old cemetery

New York: A number of alien-like skulls have been discovered in a 1,000 year old cemetery in ...Details »

Ups and downs of biodiversity after mass extinction unveiled

Marine animal groups like ammonoids and conodonts already peaked three or four million years ...Details »

Google Creating 'X Phone' to Battle iPhone

Ratcheting up its rivalry with Apple (AAPL), Google is reportedly designing a new sophisticated ...Details »

Tau Ceti's planets nearest around single, Sun-like star

The nearest single Sun-like star to the Earth hosts five planets - one of which is in the ...Details »

NASA names moon crash site in honor of Sally Ride

Pasadena: A pair of NASA spacecraft crashed into a mountain near the moon's north pole on ...Details »

Scientists discover mini Nile on Saturn's moon Titan

NASA scientists have spotted the longest extraterrestrial river system ever - on Saturn's ...Details »

Noah’s biblical flood may have actually happened

An acclaimed underwater archaeologist believes that he has found evidence that the Great ...Details »

NASA project set to spot huge galaxy clusters

Hundreds of billions of solar systems like ours -- comprising planets, asteroids and comets -- ...Details »

NASA unveils 'black marble' view of Earth

San Francisco: Almost 40 years to the day after the Apollo 17 crew snapped the famed 'blue ...Details »

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