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The first 10 months of this year have been the hottest in modern times, while last month was the third warmest October over since 1880.

• 18 ноября 2016, 14:48

Life on Earth is even older than we though - fossils dating back a staggering 3.7 billion years have been discovered.

• 01 сентября 2016, 13:20

Senate Speaker Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has expressed his view that democratization is a dynamic process, and therefore democracy cannot be artificially accelerated or imposed.

• 07 ноября 2014, 16:46

The US space agency's program to detect and protect the Earth from incoming asteroids is poorly managed and far behind schedule.

• 16 сентября 2014, 12:08

Almaty city in southern Kazakhstan should study active seismic faults to be better prepared for a new devastating earthquake that is "more likely to happen than not".

• 09 сентября 2014, 14:22

Unmanned Cygnus cargo ship disintegrated as planned as it re-entered Earth's atmosphere after a month-long resupply mission.

• 18 августа 2014, 10:12

Astronomers have spotted the "Godzilla" of all Earths, a huge rocky planet orbiting a star 560 light years away that is changing scientists' understanding of the origins of the universe.

• 03 июня 2014, 13:15

The recent accident with the Russian Proton-M carrier rocket has not caused any damage to the environment of Kazakhstan.

• 18 мая 2014, 14:00

A Russian Proton rocket carrying a European-built satellite fell back to Earth on Friday shortly after liftoff in the latest accident to hit the country's once-proud space industry.

• 16 мая 2014, 13:30

Europe on Thursday launched the first in a constellation of hi-tech satellites designed to monitor Earth for climate change and environmental damage and help disaster relief operations.

• 04 апреля 2014, 14:32

A corner of South Korea is in the grip of a frenzied hunt for valuable space souvenirs, following a rare meteor shower there last week.

• 18 марта 2014, 13:20

When stars explode, it's a messy business. But the massive blasts are also useful, seeding the universe with such key elements as calcium, iron and titanium.

• 21 февраля 2014, 10:12

Something wiped out nearly all life on Earth more than 250 million years ago, and whatever unleashed this mass die-off acted much faster than previously thought.

• 11 февраля 2014, 18:19

Australian astronomers on Sunday said they had found a star 13.6 billion years old, making it the most ancient star ever seen.

• 10 февраля 2014, 14:07

More than 1,000 candidates -- from 200,000 hopefuls -- have been chosen to train for a private Mars colonisation mission to be partly funded by a reality-TV show following their training and subsequent steps, organisers said Thursday.

• 03 января 2014, 14:47

Comet ISON appears to have flown too close to the surface of the sun Thursday and vanished as it circled the fiery surface, astronomers said.

• 29 ноября 2013, 13:00

US astrophysicists are split over what will happen when the comet ISON passes near the sun Thursday, but a majority think it will break apart.

• 27 ноября 2013, 10:31

Europe next week will launch a trio of hi-tech satellites to explore something that may seem utterly mundane: Earth's magnetic field.

• 18 ноября 2013, 11:52

Kumis Bazarbayeva, Miss Asiada, will represent Kazakhstan at the Miss Earth 2013 to be held on December 7 in the Philippines.

• 18 ноября 2013, 02:22

India's Mars spacecraft suffered a brief engine failure Monday as scientists tried to move it into a higher orbit around Earth, but controllers denied any setback to the ambitious low-cost mission.

• 12 ноября 2013, 14:46