London: British scientists claim to have found 'alien' organisms in Earth's atmosphere, suggesting that life is continually arriving to our planet from space and did not originate.
The team, led by t

London: Earth will remain habitable for at least another 1.75 billion years, a new study suggests.
After this point, our planet will be in the 'hot zone' of the Sun, with temperatures so high that th

Washington: The largest full moon this year, also known as the supermoon, will brighten the night sky this weekend.
On Sunday, at 7 am EDT, the moon will reach perigee - the point closest to earth in

Washington: Mars might have had an oxygen-rich atmosphere at a time, about 4000 million years ago, well before the rise of atmospheric oxygen on earth around 2500 million years ago.
This is the concl

Three smartphones or ‘PhoneSats’ sent into orbit on April 21 aboard the Antares rocket brought back clear images of Earth after successfully completing the mission on April 27.
Nasa’s goal was to det

Record-setting Indian-American NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, along with two other cosmonauts, will return to Earth on Sunday, after four months in the orbit.

Ms Williams ceremonially handed over th

A new theory has come up that the earth might once have had two moons, the one that shines at night today and a smaller companion, which was destroyed in a slow collision between the two satellites.

Washington: The massive earthquake that shook Japan and triggered a huge tsunami appears to have shifted the Earth on its axis and moved an island of Japan, a media report said on Saturday.

Kenneth H

London: An astrophysicist, who created a formula to calculate the value of planet earth, has claimed that Earth is worth three thousand trillion pounds.

Greg Laughlin came up with the figure by calcu

London, Jan. 22: The Earth could soon have a second Sun when one of the brightest stars in the night sky becomes a supernova.

The cosmic phenomenon, which may happen as soon as this year and remain f