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Researchers return from `mock-up Mars` world after 4 months

Last Updated: Saturday, July 26, 2014, 13:07

Six researchers have come back to the real world after spending 4 months in a mock Mars habitat on a Hawaiian volcano Mauna Loa.

2012`s `Solar flare` could have pushed Earth into dark age

Last Updated: Saturday, July 26, 2014, 12:32

NASA has recently revealed that Earth nearly missed a solar flare, or Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) that might have plunged the planet towards a global catastrophe on July 23, 2012.

NASA considering proposal for commercial Mars data relay

Last Updated: Friday, July 25, 2014, 21:13

To avoid a potential communications gap that is set to happen in 2020, NASA is currently looking for proposals for commercial satellites to be put in the orbit around Mars for telecommunication purposes on future missions.

Solar storm could have plunged world into darkness in 2012

Last Updated: Friday, July 25, 2014, 17:35

Earth had a near miss with a solar flare from the most powerful storm on the Sun in over 150 years that could have caused widespread power blackouts, scientists say.

Earth missed solar catastrophe two years ago: NASA

Last Updated: Friday, July 25, 2014, 16:09

In a sensational revelation, NASA has said that the Earth had a near miss July 23,2012 with a giant solar flare or Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) from the most powerful solar storm on the sun in over 150 years.

Three exoplanets nearly dry

Last Updated: Friday, July 25, 2014, 11:32

In a significant discovery using NASA`s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers, including an Indian-origin researcher, who went looking for water vapour in three exoplanets orbiting stars similar to our sun have come up nearly dry.

Russian `gecko sex` satellite lost in space

Last Updated: Friday, July 25, 2014, 11:25

A Russian satellite with a crew of five lizards sent in space to understand the effects of weightlessness on sexual intercourse has gone missing.

Researchers practice living on Mars - without leaving Earth

Last Updated: Friday, July 25, 2014, 10:15

For the past four months, a team of researchers have been living in a mockup Mars habitat on a Hawaiian volcano practicing isolated living on the Red Planet.

`Challenges` in quest to find water on Earth-like worlds: Study

Last Updated: Thursday, July 24, 2014, 23:53

A study of unprecedented detail has revealed astonishingly little water on three distant planets, hinting at potential obstacles in the search for Earth-like worlds rich in H2O, astronomers said today.

New model designed to explore Titan`s atmosphere

Last Updated: Thursday, July 24, 2014, 22:39

Prof. Vladimir Krasnopolsky, researcher from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, has designed a new model that provided the latest data of Titan`s atmosphere.