SCIENCE

California, Feb 20: Less than a day after NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover successfully landed on the surface of Mars, engineers and scientists at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California were working hard, awaiting the next transmissions from Perseverance.

Washington, Feb 2: SpaceX announced on Monday that it will launch four private individuals on a Crew Dragon capsule into orbit around the Earth, dubbed as "the world's first all-civilian mission." It is scheduled to launch in the fourth quarter of 2021.

London, Jan 28: The number of oceanic sharks and rays worldwide has fallen by 71 per cent over the last 50 years, according to a study which found that some formerly abundant, wide-ranging species -- including the Great Hammerhead -- have declined so steeply that they are now classified as critically endangered.

India is among the top 10 most affected countries in the Global Climate Risk Index 2021 published on Monday by the Bonn-based environmental think tank Germanwatch.

Despite reductions in global carbon emissions due to the COVID-19 lockdown, the world's oceans in 2020 were the warmest in recorded history, according to a new study.

Washington, Jan 15: The US space agency has revealed that the Covid-hit 2020 was also the warmest year on record, just barely exceeding the record set in 2016 by less than a tenth of a degree.

Hyderabad, Jan 1: Planet Earth will reach the closest point to Sun on Saturday, Planetary Society of India (PSI) said on Friday.

'Mega-droughts' of the past have often simultaneously hit sites that are currently home to power production along Asian rivers, says the largest study of the continent's river systems which may help predict long term changes in the region's water cycle. The study, published in the journal Water Resources Research, noted that the findings have important implications for water management and power

Moscow, Dec 27: The Arctic's rapid warming could have been triggered by a series of great earthquakes, suggests new research.

Beijing, Dec 26: An international team of researchers has identified over 109,000 previously unrecognised impact craters on the moon using machine learning methods.