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.

With increasing pollution on earth and human desire to make space travel a commercial affair, the junkyard is set for a major risk where debris travels at velocities approaching 8 kilometres per second-roughly 28,900 kmh.

NASA has named the whole setup of design as Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL). The device will be sent to the space in August aboard the SpaceX CRS-12.

Mars now appears to be a cold desert world and it has no global magnetic field. The cold temperatures and thin atmosphere on the red Planet do not allow liquid water to exist at the surface for long. But it might not have been always so.

NASA published the first edition of its software catalog in April 2014. Since then, NASA has shared thousands of its software programs with students, industry, individuals and other government agencies.

Researchers are now set to produce cutting-edge, versatile microchips that will revolutionise the speed, efficiency and capability of generation next computers.

Plants could be a renewable and biodegradable alternative to the polymers currently used in 3-D printing materials, researchers have found. A new paper, published in the journal Advanced Materials Technologies, found that cellulose might become an abundant material to print with.

"These are the best Earth-sized planets for the James Webb Space Telescope to characterize, perhaps for its whole lifetime," Hannah Wakeford, postdoctoral fellow at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, said.

Big muscles in the tails of early dinosaurs helped them move about on all fours and rise up on just their two back feet, new research suggests. Bipedalism in dinosaurs was inherited from ancient and much smaller proto-dinosaurs.