Washington, Oct 4 : NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed and Earth like planet forming 424 light-years away in a star system called HD 113766.

Agency astronomers have discovered a huge belt of warm dust – enough to build a Mars-size planet or larger – swirling around a distant star that is just slightly more massive than our Sun.

Sydney, Oct 2 : Temperatures across Australia are likely to rise by one degree Celsius by 2030, but it could rise by up to 5 degrees Celsius in some parts of the country by 2070, a new CSIRO study has revealed.

Penny Whetton, co-author of the new Climate Change in Australia report produced by the Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO, said the probability of warming exceeding one degree Celsius was 10-20 per cent for coastal areas of Australia, and more than 50 per cent for inland regions.

London, Oct 2 : Some Caribbean forests were at their densest during the 'Little Ice Age', a new study by a palaeontologist from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, has revealed.

During the course of her study, Maria Lozano-Garcia found that the normal dry season was either shorter or nonexistent during the Little Ice Age (1350-1850), as indicated by a sharp increase in the amount of pollen from both lowland and upland forests deposited in core-samples taken from Lago Verde.

Washington, Oct 2 : The clue to the missing link in planet-formation theory might lie in nearby stellar systems, according to a new study by astronomers from the University of Rochester.

Scientists study planets, which are in the process of formation to piece together information on how our own planet came to be formed.

But, so far, they have been unable to find evidence for one of the key stages of planet development, a period early in the planet's formation when it is only as large as Pluto.

Moscow, Oct 1 : Russian archaeologists have found 75 ancient graves dating from the 15th to the 18th century at the excavation site of the necropolis by Nikolo-Dvorishchenskiy Cathedral in Veliki Novgorod in north-western Russia.

Moscow archaeologist and anthropologist Denis Pezhemsky said, excavation work has been going on since early July, and they were expecting more entombments to be dug out.

Pezhemski said the remnants of the ancient Novgorod dwellers are all kept in sarcophagi, which are of great historical value.

Sias ISRO chairman G Madhavan Nair has announced that the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is building up a