Human mind is `pure` maths, says cosmologist

Last Updated: Saturday, February 1, 2014, 15:47

If you throw a cricket ball in the air, it follows a roughly parabolic trajectory. Planets and other astrophysical bodies too follow elliptical orbits.

How circumbinary planets form revealed

Last Updated: Saturday, February 1, 2014, 15:32

Researchers using Kepler space telescope have discovered how circumbinary planets form.

Weather map of brown dwarf can help shed light on distant planets

Last Updated: Thursday, January 30, 2014, 11:45

Researchers have mapped the surface of a brown dwarf - an object larger than a planet and smaller than a star - for the first time.

Pregnant dust ring now `delivering` new planets

Last Updated: Monday, January 20, 2014, 15:52

As you sip your cup of tea on a chilly morning, an enormous ring of dust and gas - encircling a distant star - may be giving births to new planets at this very moment.

Researchers reveal how sand dunes are formed

Last Updated: Monday, January 13, 2014, 18:58

Researchers after a four-year experiment have revealed how prevailing winds create sand dunes on Earth.

Scientists develop laser that could help find smaller planets

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 8, 2014, 21:46

Scottish scientists are developing a new kind of laser that could help astronomers to find small Earth-like planets outside our solar system.

Abundant `mini-Neptunes` form new class of alien planets

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 7, 2014, 23:48

Kepler`s cornucopia of alien worlds has found a new entrant in the form of a new kind of planet.

Finding earth-Like planets, using waves

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 24, 2013, 17:52

What if you are told that a wave can find earth-like planets, identify unknown substances for the medical fraternity and boost the capacity of existing telecom networks?

NASA finds water in atmosphere of five distant planets

Last Updated: Wednesday, December 4, 2013, 11:10

In an encouraging sign of life beyond earth, NASA scientists have found faint signatures of water in the atmospheres of five distant planets.

One in five stars in Milky Way circled by Earth-like planets

Last Updated: Tuesday, November 5, 2013, 19:50

Twenty per cent of Sun-like stars in our Milky Way galaxy have Earth-sized planets that could potentially host life, a new study has found.

Dead aliens easier to find

Last Updated: Thursday, October 31, 2013, 13:45

Aliens on far-away planets can be found even after they die out.

Planet hunters find Earth-like twin beyond the solar system

Last Updated: Thursday, October 31, 2013, 09:15

For the first time, scientists have found a planet beyond the solar system that not only is the same size as Earth, but has the same proportions of iron and rock, a key step in an ongoing quest to find potentially habitable sister worlds.