How`s the weather on Mars today?

Last Updated: Sunday, December 22, 2013, 11:54

The Mars One colonization project is planning to broadcast live video from Red Planet`s surface to Earth via a privately built communications satellite and lander to launch as part of an unmanned mission to Mars in 2018.

Scientists create Martian clouds on Earth

Last Updated: Tuesday, October 8, 2013, 15:13

Researchers have recreated Mars-like conditions in a 3-story-tall cloud chamber in Germany.

Earth may have become blue planet 200 million years after birth

Last Updated: Saturday, August 31, 2013, 12:57

A new research has claimed that Earth may have become transformed into a blue planet just 200 million years after it was formed.

New super-Earth that may be just right to support life found

Last Updated: Thursday, November 8, 2012, 13:02

Astronomers have discovered a new super-Earth planet around a nearby star that may have an Earth-like climate and be just right to support life.

`Long forgotten` star cluster to help study sun

Last Updated: Saturday, June 23, 2012, 13:03

A loose group of stars that has been discovered to be an important new tool in the quest to understand the evolution of stars like the Sun.

Earth-like planets may have different chemical structures

Last Updated: Friday, February 24, 2012, 14:26

A great majority of Earth-like planets may have a totally different internal and atmospheric structure as compared to our planet, scientists suggest.

`New Earth-like planet may have water, life`

Last Updated: Sunday, November 27, 2011, 21:29

The exoplanet, called Gliese 581g, is located around 123 trillion miles away from Earth.

`Doomsday` asteroid could slam into Earth in 2036: Scientists

Last Updated: Friday, February 11, 2011, 19:27

Scientists are predicting that a massive asteroid could slam into the planet in 2036.

Chances of life on newly discovered Earth-like planet `100%`

Last Updated: Saturday, October 2, 2010, 12:02

A team of astronomers has discovered a new planet that could have water on its surface.

A second Earth `likely to be discovered by end of 2010`

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 26, 2010, 14:07

An Earth-like planet is likely to be discovered outside the solar system by this yearend, a leading astronomer has claimed.

First earth-like planet maybe volcanic wasteland

Last Updated: Thursday, January 7, 2010, 16:49

The first Earth-like planet spotted outside our solar system seems to be a volcanic wasteland. CoRoT-7b was discovered circling a star some 480 light years from Earth.

Scientists discover Earth-like, water-rich planet

Last Updated: Thursday, December 17, 2009, 11:11

Astronomers have discovered a new Earth-like planet that is larger than our own and may be more than half covered with water, according to a study published Wednesday in the science journal Nature.