Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
NASA's Mars rover Spirit has found concentrated salt below the surface of the Red Planet, offering more evidence that water once existed on Mars. Evidence at that location included a large amount of crystalised salt inside rock, indicating it was dissolved in water and then left behind when the water …
The celestial transit of Venus across the Sun which no one on earth has witnessed and one that will come again after 122 years. Many parts of India could be under Nimbus cover. A transit takes place when a planet comes between the Sun and Earth. The next transit of …
A 2 billion pounds, seven year mission is about to come to a climax as a spacecraft the size of a small bus sails through the rings of Saturn to begin a four year study of one of the solar system's most mysterious planets. Cassini-Huygens, a NASA European Space Agency …
The Earth may be brightening up. Scientists studying the amount of light reflected by the Earth say the planet appeared to dim from 1984 to 2001 and then reversed its trend and brightened from 2001 to 2003.The change appears to have resulted from changes in the amount of clouds covering …
Global warming can be measured 384,000 km away, from the dark side of the moon Researchers who have been measuring the ghostly reflection of the Earth from those bits of the moon in the sun's shadow say that "earthshine" has declined sharply in the last two decades.
China and Brazil will launch a third satellite to study Earth, the Chinese Foreign Ministry has said as Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva end a six-day visit to China. "Both sides are currently holding consultations and will strive to launch a third satellite in the not too distant …
Recently discovered isotopic evidence and accumulated astronomical observations by a group of Arizona State University astronomers and meteorite researchers argue for a history of development of the Sun, the Earth and our Solar System that is significantly different from the traditionally accepted scenario. Most astronomers, for years, have imagined that …
A secret inquest into the loss of Britain's Martian lander Beagle 2 has ended with 19 recommendations for the European Space Agency - and a hint that a Beagle 3 might return to Mars under European colours. The tiny space probe was the only robot so far designed to look …
Astronomers on Tuesday announced new evidence that the mysterious force known as "dark energy" is causing the universe to expand ever more rapidly, perhaps eventually leading to cosmological "loneliness", in which galaxies grow so far apart that the heavens will apear empty.
Observations of giant clouds of galaxies far out in space and time have revealed new evidence that some mysterious force began to push the cosmos apart sic billion years ago, astronomers said. The results constitute striking confirmation of one of the weirdest discoveries of modern science : that the expansion …
An underwater crater off the coast of Australia may have been left by a catastrophic asteroid impact that triggered the greatest mass extinction the world has seen, scientists believe. New analysis of rock cores drilled from the Bedout High crater off the northwestern coast of Australia has indicated that it …
A rare planetary alignment showing the transit of Venus across the disc of the Sun would occur on June 8 and India would be an ideal location to observe the entire sequence of the transit. A spokesman of the Haryana State Council for Science and Technology said here today that …
India's proposed moon mission, Chandrayaan -1, has attracted partnership proposals from the United States, Canada, the European Union and Israel. The Indian Space Research Organisation Chairman, G. Madhavan Nair, told presspersons on Monday that of the 20 proposals received, only two could be finally accepted. A scientific committee was in …
A 50-year-old map of the Milky Way will have to be redrawn. Astronomers have discovered that this spiral galaxy has a huge, outflung arm. New Scientist reports that the gassy limb comprises an arc of hydrogen 77,000 light years long and several thousand light years long and several thousand light …
A new mineral formed by repeated bombardments from meteorites and other space debris has been found in a meteorite that fell to Earth from the moon in 2000, researchers reported. The finding shows that "space weather" can help create materials not seen on Earth, they reported in this week's issue …
Saturn is the second largest planet in our solar system. With a colourful ring system surrounding the planet, it is highly attractive. Only brief observations, using telescopes, Pioneer-11, Voyager-1 and Voyager-2 in situ recorders have been made. Comparatively impressive details of Saturn have already been obtained. A space mission named …
Mars scientists in Europe and the United States have detected tantalizing signs of methane gas in the Martian atmosphere, and cannot yet explain why it's there. Methane is commonly exuded by living organisms and fermentation. It can also belch to the surface during volcanic eruptions, and can be carried by …
One in 20 stars in the night sky could be orbited by Earth-like planets capable of supporting alien life, according to a new British study. Astronomers have shown that rocky planets lying in a habitable zone where temperatures are suitable for life are more common than was previously thought. Within …
