The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), set to be launched by NASA in 2018, will be capable of detecting oxygen and water in the atmosphere of an Earth-like planet orbiting a white dwarf.
April 25 2013, 1:12 pm
Read MoreThe Netherlands-based nonprofit project Mars One plans to land four people on the Red Planet in 2023 as the vanguard of a permanent human colony on the red planet.
April 24 2013, 2:31 pm
Read MoreCricket will perhaps be graced by many men with skills and records that rival, and often surpass, Charles Burgess Fry. Yet, as a marvellously gifted personality whose brilliance sparkled from every facet of his many-sided genius, he will perhaps never be matched by any man in flannels.
May 22 2013, 4:04 pm
Read MoreA team of scientists from UK and Canada has discovered ancient pockets of water, which have been isolated deep underground for billions of years and contain abundant chemicals known to support life.
May 16 2013, 12:54 pm
Read MoreA team of scientists has examined a meteorite that formed on Mars more than a billion years ago to determine if conditions were ever right on the red planet to sustain life.
May 2 2013, 1:29 pm
Read MoreResearchers say a few hundred thousand billion free-floating life-bearing Earth-sized planets may exist in the space between stars in the Milky Way.
May 11 2012, 1:57 pm
Read MoreNASA`s Mars rover Curiosity has gathered evidence for the presence of perchlorates - salts believed to be building blocks for early life - on the Red Planet.
April 2 2013, 6:05 pm
Read MoreA few hundred thousand billion free-floating life-bearing earth-sized planets may exist in the space between stars in the Milky Way, says a study.
May 14 2012, 2:47 pm
Read MoreComplex building blocks of life could have been created on icy interplanetary dust and then carried to Earth, jump-starting life on our planet, US researchers say.
March 6 2013, 5:41 pm
Read MoreNASA`s Mars rover Curiosity has gathered evidence for the presence of perchlorates - salts believed to be building blocks for early life - on the Red Planet.
April 2 2013, 5:32 pm
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