Seven teams, including three from India, have qualified for the country's first private moon mission in December, space technology start-up TeamIndus said on Wednesday.

A group of 43 scientists in a new study have highlighted that conservation of large mammals (megafauna) does not come at the cost of biodiversity conservation, but rather complements it, a statement said on Tuesday. A public declaration made last year by the same scientists had called for a global plan to prevent the world's large mammals from slipping into oblivion.

A new species, green frog that glows, has been discovered in the Amazon basin in Argentina. Researchers at the Bernardino Rivadavia Natural Sciences Museum in Buenos Aires accidentally found the special species while they were studying polka dots tree frogs, a species common in the rain forest.

Ostriches, the flightless birds, are in India for nothing less than 25,000 years, a new study has revealed. Though the bird is a native to Africa, researchers and geologists have been finding traces of their existence in India.

Black holes in space and their mysteries have been surprising researchers in regular interval of time. In a latest, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has discovered a star that is believed to be orbiting a black hole in nearby milky way in space.

In another development to find life on planet Mars, the scientists have identified nearly 4000 varieties of potatoes that can be grown on the red planet.

Former chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the key figure behind the Chandrayaan I mission, Madhvan Nair has praised NASA scientists for spotting the satellite orbiting moon.

Chandrayaan-1 is still circling some 200 kilometers above the lunar surface, the scientists determined. In addition to finding Chandrayaan-1, the scientists also located NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter around the Moon.

Researchers have found the world's oldest crocodilian eggs that were laid 152 million years ago. The eggs, discovered in cliffs in Portugal, were laid by close relatives of "true" crocodiles, a group called crocodylomorphs, which according to palaeontologists, had been two metres long.

A new study over travelling to Mars has claimed that humans going to space have higher leukaemia risk as their bodies encounter with dangerous radiations during the deep space travel. The study has been conducted by scientists who are studying how a three-year space flight to Mars may affect astronauts.