TEHRAN, Jun 24 -Robotic spacecraft can collect data vital to scientists' quest to unravel the moon's mysteries, but well-trained astronauts -- and their cognitive abilities -- can see and do things robots can't.
TEHRAN, Jun 9 -Scientists assumed Earth's mantle, the layer stretching from the crust to a depth of 255 miles, was magnetically dead. New research suggests they were mistaken.
TEHRAN, May 25 -Asteroid 1999 KW4, measuring more than a mile in diameter and boasting its own moon, will fly by Earth on Saturday. Thankfully, the massive space rock will make its pass at a safe distance.
TEHRAN, May 15 - One has a thick poisonous atmosphere, one has hardly any atmosphere at all, and one is just right for life to flourish – but it wasn’t always that way. The atmospheres of our two neighbours Venus and Mars can teach us a lot about the past and future scenarios for our own planet.
TEHRAN, May 04 -This weekend will feature the second meteor shower in as many weeks as Earth passes through a trail of debris left behind by one of the most well-known comets in recent history.
TEHRAN, May 04 -Two neutron stars collided 4.6 billion years ago near the Earth's solar system, sending the planet some fraction of its most precious metals, a new study says.
TEHRAN, Apr 27 - Tree cover tropics shrank by 30 million acres in 2018, the fourth largest decline since record keeping began in 2001, according to new data compiled by scientists with the World Resources Institute.
TEHRAN, Mar31-New York's Empire State Building, Egypt's pyramids, London's Big Ben, and Rio's Christ the Redeemer statue were among the world's most renowned monuments that plunged into darkness for an hour Saturday as part of a global campaign to raise awareness about climate change and its impact on the planet's vanishing plant and animal life.
TEHRAN, Mar31-New York's Empire State Building, Egypt's pyramids, London's Big Ben, and Rio's Christ the Redeemer statue were among the world's most renowned monuments that plunged into darkness for an hour Saturday as part of a global campaign to raise awareness about climate change and its impact on the planet's vanishing plant and animal life.
TEHRAN, Mar 06 -"It is only a matter of time before these questions go from being academic to defining our response to a major threat," said researcher K.T. Ramesh.
TEHRAN, Jan 28 -The latest research suggests an ancient planetary collision offers the best explanation for Earth's carbon, nitrogen and sulphur ratios.
TEHRAN, November 06 -Harvard researchers have suggested a mysterious interstellar object that was spotted floating in space in 2017 could be an “alien” spacecraft sent on a reconnaissance mission to probe the Earth.
TEHRAN, October 22 -"The inner core is like a time capsule, if we understand it we'll understand how the planet was formed, and how it evolves," geoscientist Hrvoje Tkalčić said.
TEHRAN, July 16 - More than a billion people are at risk from a lack of air conditioning and refrigeration to keep them cool and to preserve food and medicines as global warming brings more high temperatures, a study showed on Monday.
TEHRAN, July 04 -New observations by NASA's NuSTAR space telescope suggest the super luminous star system Eta Carinae produces cosmic rays, some of which likely reach Earth.
TEHRAN, May 17 - Iranian gardens have for nearly 6,000 years combined the beauty of nature with the aesthetic qualities of art and architecture to create a symbolic representation of paradise on earth .