Rare 158-Carat Yellow Diamond Unearthed as Remote Diavik Mine Nears ClosureA remarkable 158.20-carat yellow diamond was discovered at Canada's Diavik Diamond Mine as it nears its 2026 closure. This rare find, one o...
27 Apr, 2026, 05.51 PM IST
Geologists Find Strange Stone Tunnels That Could Point to a Never-Before-Seen Lifeform on EarthScientists found tiny, organized tunnels within desert rocks. These formations are unlike natural geological processes. Chemical traces sug...
25 Apr, 2026, 04.17 PM IST
Could Life on Earth Be Older Than We Thought? Scientists Find Clues in 3.3 Billion-Year-Old RocksScientists have unearthed faint chemical traces in rocks over 3.3 billion years old, potentially representing Earth's earliest biological e...
13 Mar, 2026, 09.59 PM IST
What Was Found Inside Petralona Cave: The Ancient Skull That Is Reshaping Europe’s Human HistoryA remarkable skull found in Greece's Petralona Cave is rewriting human history. Dated to over 286,000 years old, this fossil does not fit n...
13 Mar, 2026, 11.58 AM IST
A New Study Suggests Life May Have Appeared on Earth Much Earlier Than Scientists Once ThoughtScientists have found chemical evidence of life on Earth from over 3.3 billion years ago. This discovery pushes back the timeline for life'...
08 Mar, 2026, 02.57 PM IST
Earth’s Forgotten Collisions: Where Ancient Impact Craters Have Been HidingBeneath Earth's seemingly calm surface lie hidden scars from colossal asteroid impacts. These ancient craters, buried by ice, sediment, and...
02 Mar, 2026, 04.12 PM IST
America’s Deepest Secret: A Colossal Rift That Nearly Ripped the Continent ApartA giant crack, the Midcontinent Rift System, formed over a billion years ago. This rift nearly split North America apart. Magma pushed thro...
27 Feb, 2026, 09.10 PM IST
Scientists Found an Ecosystem That Runs on Hydrogen Instead of SunlightScientists have discovered deep-sea and underground microbial ecosystems thriving without sunlight, powered by hydrogen gas produced throug...
22 Feb, 2026, 04.56 PM IST
IIT Dhanbad, TTRP, TEXMiN, sign agreement with RSMET and Rajasthan mines dept for critical mineral appraisal and dump site analysisIIT(ISM) Dhanbad, TEXMiN, and Rajasthan's Mines & Geology Department have signed a collaboration to assess critical minerals in mine waste ...
15 Dec, 2025, 02.09 PM IST
The Earth is leaking “Gold” from its core, where 99.999% of the planet’s treasure is buriedScientists have discovered that Earth's core is leaking gold and other precious metals into the mantle, eventually reaching the surface thr...
24 May, 2025, 01.02 PM IST
What the Chinese discovered about the dark side of the moonChina's Chang'e-6 mission has successfully returned with lunar samples from the moon's far side, revealing distinct characteristics compare...
18 Sep, 2024, 04.24 PM IST
Secrets of life found by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission: Surprising findings from Bennu asteroid sampleNASA's OSIRIS-REx mission has revealed groundbreaking findings from the Bennu asteroid, uncovering key ingredients for life, including phos...
29 Jun, 2024, 04.01 PM IST
Moon may be 40 million years older than thought: StudyA study suggests that the Moon is at least 4.46 billion years old, pushing back its age by 40 million years. Researchers used crystals brou...
23 Oct, 2023, 06.13 PM IST
Current pace of environmental change unprecedented: StudyThe rate of environmental change occurring today is unprecedented compared to that which occurred during natural events in the Earth's hist...
11 Jan, 2016, 01.36 PM IST
- Oldest crater on Earth formed due to comet impact
A comet may have been responsible for creating one of the largest and oldest known impact craters on Earth, a new study suggests.
14 Nov, 2014, 03.56 PM IST
- Cairn says discovers oil off Greenland
Cairn Energy, renowned for a major oil find in India, said today that it had discovered pockets of oil and further evidence of gas in offsh...
21 Sep, 2010, 10.24 PM IST
- Uranium deposits found in Ladakh
Scientists have claimed to have found uranium deposits in the icy heights of Ladakh but the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) has adopted a...
28 Aug, 2007, 12.17 PM IST