Los Angeles: It's a spectacle that won't repeat for another century - the sight of Venus slowly inching across the face of the sun. So unless scientists discover the fountain of youth, none of us alive today will likely ever witness this celestial phenomenon again, dubbed a "transit of Venus." It's so unique that museums and schools around the globe are hosting Venus viewing festivities - all for a chance...
03:52 PM, Jun 01, 2012
San Francisco: Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt and billionaire co-founder Larry Page have teamed up with Avatar director James Cameron and other investors to back an ambitious space exploration and natural resources venture, details of which will be unveiled next week. The fledgling company, called Planetary Resources, will be unveiled at a Tuesday news conference at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, according to a press release issued this week....
01:03 PM, Apr 21, 2012
Gandhinagar: The common house sparrow is not so common anymore and seems to have vanished from the cities. The tiny bird is now battling for survival having witnessed a sharp decline in most Indian cities. An elderly woman in Gandhinagar has a plan to bring them back. In a new green initiative, Jayaben accompanied by her grandchildren has brought home an earthen sparrow nest. She plans to place it in...
08:38 AM, Apr 16, 2012
New Delhi: Red planet Mars will be brightest and closest "it can get" to earth tomorrow, giving sky gazers an opportunity to see it with naked eyes. "On March 3, Mars was at opposition to sun because of which it would be brightest and closest it can get to earth on March 5," General Secretary of Planetary Society of India N Raghunandan said. In positional astronomy, opposition defines that position...
08:53 AM, Mar 04, 2012
Cape Canaveral: Stargazers of the world are getting a treat this weekend. On Saturday and again on Sunday, Venus, Jupiter and Earth's moon converge for a brilliant night show. Venus and Jupiter already are lining up in the western sky. In mid-February, the two planets were 20 degrees apart from a viewing perspective. The gap narrows to 10 degrees by month's end. A crescent moon joins the show this weekend...
08:38 PM, Feb 25, 2012
New Delhi: A bus-sized newly discovered asteroid on Friday came extremely close to the Earth, coming much nearer than the Moon, space scientists said. However, the space rock posed no danger of impacting the Earth. "The asteroid 2012 BX34 passed within 59,044 km of Earth at about 9 pm," Planetary Society of India Director N Raghunandan Kumar said. The moon orbits Earth at an average distance of about 386,000 km....
08:57 AM, Jan 28, 2012
New Delhi: A bus-sized newly discovered asteroid on Friday came extremely close to the Earth, coming much nearer than the Moon, space scientists said. However, the space rock posed no danger of impacting the Earth. "The asteroid 2012 BX34 passed within 59,044 km of Earth at about 9 pm," Planetary Society of India Director N Raghunandan Kumar said. The moon orbits Earth at an average distance of about 386,000 km....
09:37 PM, Jan 27, 2012
Washington: NASA's Kepler mission has discovered the first Earth-size planets orbiting a sun-like star outside our solar system, a milestone in the search for planets like the earth, the space agency said on Tuesday. The planets, called Kepler-20e and Kepler-20f, are the smallest planets outside the solar system confirmed around a star like the Sun, NASA said in a statement. The planets are too close to their star to be...
08:36 AM, Dec 22, 2011
Washington: Some alien planets in the Earth's galaxy could be made of diamonds, a new study has suggested. These potential giant terrestrial planets, whose insides could be up to 50 per cent diamond, are dubbed "carbon super-Earths" by scientists, according to the Space.com. A diamond planet would very likely be devoid of life and incapable of supporting living beings like us, scientists said. "We think a diamond planet must be...
08:32 PM, Dec 06, 2011
California: The most Earth-like planet ever discovered is circling a star 600 light years away, a key finding in an ongoing quest to learn if life exists beyond Earth, scientists said on Monday. The planet, called Kepler-22b, joins a list of more than 500 planets found to orbit stars beyond our solar system. It is the smallest and the best positioned to have liquid water on its surface -- among...
10:10 AM, Dec 06, 2011
Panaji: A short film by UK-based producer Jamie Nuttgens about child poverty in India today won the coveted Golden Lamp Award in the Short Film Section of International Film Festival of India (IFFI) 2011 here. 'Another Planet', directed by Smita Bhide, was adjudged the best film in the international competition section by a jury headed by Indian Director Basu Chatterjee. The 28-minute film is a touching tale about a young...
11:45 AM, Dec 02, 2011
Florida: A nuclear-powered rover as big as a compact car is set to begin a nine-month journey to Mars this weekend to learn if the planet is or ever was suitable for life. The launch of NASA's $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory aboard an unmanned United Space Alliance Atlas 5 rocket is set for 10:02 am EST on Saturday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, located just south of the...
12:46 PM, Nov 24, 2011
New Delhi: She plays a priestess with the power to see the future in Hollywood film 'Immortals' and actress Freida Pinto says if she actually gets such powers she would like to increase the longevity of her career as women don't have shelf life in filmdom. "If I had Phaedra's powers and if I could look into the future, I think I would want longevity in my career. I say...
01:27 PM, Nov 10, 2011
Los Angeles: The summer blockbuster movie season comes to an end this weekend, and already moviegoers on one website have decided their favourite flick of the period -- 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2'. Voters in a new poll released on Thursday by NextMovie.com had the British boy wizard casting his spell over nearly 60 percent of voters for favorite summer flick, easily surpassing 'X-Men: First Class' with...
11:58 AM, Sep 02, 2011
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