Washington, May 25 (ANI): Leading water scientists have issued a warning that in the short span of one or two generations, most of the 9 billion people on Earth will be suffering from fresh water woes if any major reforms are not made.

Washington, May 24 (ANI): A Syracuse University researcher has argued that the Earth's mantle affects long-term sea-level rise estimates.

Washington, May 23 (ANI): Scientists and engineers together must initiate a major new effort to educate the public and decision makers on a crisis in providing Earth's people with clean water that looms ahead in the 21st century.

Washington, May 23 (ANI): When a solar flare filled with charged particles erupts from the Sun, its magnetic fields sometime break a widely accepted rule of physics.

Washington, May 23 (ANI): A piece of asteroid that fell on earth after its impact on Mars is up for grabs.

Washington, May 20 (ANI): A Russian capsule, which had mice and lizards as its occupants, returned to Earth on Sunday after spending a month in space.

Washington, May 19 (ANI): Asteroid 1998 QE2 will sail past Earth on May 31, getting no closer than about 3.6 million miles (5.8 million kilometers), or about 15 times the distance between Earth and the moon.

Melbourne, May 19 (ANI): 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 naked eye on Earth.

Washington, May 18 (ANI): Researchers from the SETI Institute, the Mars Institute, NASA Ames Research Center, and the space robotics company Honeybee Robotics, have successfully completed a first series of field tests aimed at investigating how humans will explore and work on near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) and eventually the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos.

Washington, May 18 (ANI): At 5:24 am EDT on May 17, the sun erupted with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection or CME, a solar phenomenon that can send billions of tons of solar particles into space that can reach Earth one to three days later and affect electronic systems in satellites and on the ground.

Washington, May 18 (ANI): By using global positioning systems (GPS) to measure ground deformation caused by a large underwater earthquake, researchers have shown that they can provide accurate warning of the resulting tsunami in just a few minutes after the earthquake onset.

Washington, May 17 (ANI): A research team has argued that high ancient shorelines do not necessarily reflect ice sheet collapse millions of years ago.

Washington, May 17 (ANI): The Origins-Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx), the NASA's first mission to sample an asteroid, passed a confirmation review Wednesday called Key Decision Point (KDP)-C.

Melbourne, May 16 (ANI): The crew of the International Space Station (ISS) were offered a sneak peak of 'Star Trek Into Darkness' days before it opened on Earth.

Washington, May 16 (ANI): A team of scientists from UK and Canada has discovered ancient pockets of water, which have been isolated deep underground for billions of years and contain abundant chemicals known to support life.

Washington, May 16 (ANI): Asteroid 1998 QE2 will sail past Earth on May 31, getting no closer than about 3.6 million miles (5.8 million kilometers), or about 15 times the distance between Earth and the moon.

Washington, May 16 (ANI): The first global topographic map of Saturn's largest moon Titan has been created, giving researchers a valuable tool for learning more about one of the most Earth-like and interesting worlds in the solar system.

New Delhi, May 15 (ANI): Union Minister for Science and Technology and Earth Sciences S. Jaipal Reddy has congratulated the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), Bharat Biotech (BBIL) and the National Institute of Health (NIH) for the successful development of the rotavirus vaccine in India.

Washington, May 14 (ANI): The Arabian Sea at the Makran subduction zone is more prone to earthquakes and tsunami hazards than scientists had predicted earlier, a recent research has revealed.

Washington, May 14 (ANI): Three members of the International Space Station Expedition 35 crew undocked from the orbiting laboratory and returned safely to Earth Monday, May 13, ending a mission lasting almost five months.

Washington, May 13 (ANI): Johns Hopkins scientists have unearthed clues about which protein signaling molecules are allowed into hollow, hair-like "antennae," called cilia, that alert cells to critical changes in their environments.

Washington, May 10 (ANI): The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has found signs of Earth-like planets in the atmospheres of a pair of burnt-out stars in a nearby star cluster.

Washington, May 10 (ANI): Researchers from Brown and Case Western Reserve universities and Carnegie Institution of Washington have found that the water found on the moon, like that on Earth, came from small meteorites called carbonaceous chondrites in the first 100 million years or so after the solar system formed.

Washington, May 8 (ANI): Experts have assessed what needs to be done when an asteroid approaches earth, like the one in February, when one slammed into our atmosphere and exploded high over Russia's Ural region, injuring hundreds.

Tokyo, May 8 (ANI): The Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology and the Brazilian government have made an announcement about the discovery of a large mass of granite on the seabed off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, suggesting a continent may have existed in the Atlantic Ocean.