Mars rover Opportunity examines rock altered by water

	Mars rover Opportunity examines rock altered by water NASA's Mars rover, Opportunity, has finished examining a fractured rock on the red planet intensely altered by water, providing evidence about a wet ancient environment possibly favourable for life. Opportunity is now driving to a new study area after a ...
	'X' marks the spot: 1000-year-old coins may prove traders' visit Five copper coins and a nearly 70-year-old map with an ''X'' could rewrite Australia's history. Ian McIntosh, an Australian scientist and professor of anthropology at Indiana University in the US, is planing an expedition in July to revisit the location where five ...
	Scientists from Switzerland created World's Smallest Droplets Scientists from Switzerland created the smallest drops of liquid ever made in the lab. Scientists carried out a series of experiments at the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and most powerful particle collider located at the European Laboratory for ...
	Indian tigers threat 'due to lack of genetic diversity' London, May 19 (PTI) India's tigers are facing extinction owing to a collapse in the variety of their mating partners and the resultant lack of genetic diversity, according to a first-of-its-kind research. India is home to around 60 per cent of the world's wild tigers, ...
	British astronaut expected to chosen for space mission Britain's first astronaut is expected to be chosen to go on a five-month mission to the International Space Station. Major Tim Peake is believed to have been given the go-ahead for the trip in 2015. It's thought he'll be blasted in to space on a Russian Soyuz ...
	Rodents return to Earth after space flight Rodents return to Earth after space flight Moscow: The returnable capsule of a biological research satellite landed in Russia Sunday, bringing mice, Mongolian gerbils, geckos and various micro-organisms and plants back to Earth after their month-long flight, ...
	Venus, Jupiter, Mercury to come closest on May 28 Venus, Jupiter, Mercury to come closest on May 28 Washington: May 28th, 2013, Venus and Jupiter will pass within one degree of one other (about twice the apparent size of the full moon, it has been predicted. And a little further above the horizon Mercury ...
	Solar flares 2013: Class X storm may affect GPS, satellites in days to come Sun is becoming more and more active this year and this is the reason that we have been witnessing one solar flare after the other. To be true every solar flare or solar storm seems to be more powerful than the other in intensity. For the last two years sun has ...
	Dark, massive asteroid to fly by Earth on May 31 It's 1.7 miles long. Its surface is covered in a sticky black substance similar to the gunk at the bottom of a barbecue. If it impacted Earth it would probably result in global extinction. Good thing it is just making a flyby. Asteroid 1998 QE2 will make its closest pass ...
	Moon meteor blast 'visible to naked eye on Earth', says NASA The space rock is understood to have left a 20m-wide crater after it slammed into the Moon's surface at 90,000km/h. NASA has revealed that a boulder-sized meteor slammed into the moon in March, causing an explosion so bright that it was visible to the ...