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Why sun`s atmosphere is hotter than its surface revealed

Last Updated: Saturday, August 2, 2014, 19:52

NASA has recently gathered information that could explain the mystery relating to why sun`s atmosphere is hotter than its surface.

Give space burial to your dead pets

Last Updated: Friday, August 1, 2014, 20:40

Huston based company Celestis inc. is going to launch an all new service called `Celestis Pets` for pet lovers who can now send their dead pets into space for a space burial.

Giant asteroids` `smashing impact` helped evolution on Earth

Last Updated: Friday, August 1, 2014, 12:15

A new study has found that giant asteroids` smashing the Earth`s surface around 4 to 4.5 billion years ago, actually helped in its growth.

Galaxy that acts as cosmic magnifying glass discovered

Last Updated: Friday, August 1, 2014, 10:30

Using NASA`s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have unexpectedly discovered the most distant galaxy that acts as a cosmic magnifying glass.

No correction manoeuvre in August, MOM on track: ISRO

Last Updated: Friday, August 1, 2014, 10:15

ISRO scientists will not carry out the planned Trajectory Correction Manoeuvre (TCM) for the ambitious Mars Orbiter Mission in August as the spacecraft is on track.

Mars 2020 rover will carry tools to make oxygen

Last Updated: Friday, August 1, 2014, 04:43

The suite of space-age tools loaded on NASA`s next robotic vehicle, bound for the Red Planet in 2020, will include a device for making oxygen out of carbon dioxide.

Double stars with `weird` planet-forming disks found in binary star system

Last Updated: Thursday, July 31, 2014, 18:22

Astronomers have observed a striking pair of two stars with wildly misaligned planet-forming discs in the young binary star system with the help of Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA).

Vintage NASA spacecraft set for interplanetary probe

Last Updated: Thursday, July 31, 2014, 18:20

A team of scientists is priming a 36-year-old NASA spacecraft named International Sun-Earth Explorer 3 spacecraft, ISEE-3, to enter new science frontiers.

Giant asteroids wiped out life on early Earth

Last Updated: Thursday, July 31, 2014, 18:18

Using a computer simulation model based on a moon crater, planetary scientists have revealed that early Earth is likely to have been hit by giant asteroids capable of killing off life and completely resurfacing the planet.