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  Scientists discover massive mountains under Earth's crust

  February 17, 2019 13:58 IST

  To peer deep into the Earth, scientists from the Princeton University in the US and the Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics in China, used the most powerful waves on the planet, which are generated by massive earthquakes.

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  New NASA telescope to explore origins of universe

  February 14, 2019 13:02 IST

  Astronomers will use the mission to gather data on more than 300 million galaxies, as well as more than 100 million stars in our own Milky Way, NASA said.

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  NASA's Opportunity rover mission on Mars 'bites the dust'

  February 14, 2019 11:24 IST

  The Opportunity rover stopped communicating with Earth when a severe Mars-wide dust storm blanketed its location in June last year.   

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  Oxford researchers identify seven universal moral rules common around world

  February 14, 2019 7:02 IST

  The rules include helping your family and group, returning favours, being brave, deferring to superiors, dividing resources fairly, and respecting others' property.     

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  NASA declares end of Opportunity rover's mission on Mars

  February 14, 2019 6:54 IST

  The rover last communicated with Earth on June 10, 2018, as a planet-wide dust storm blanketed the solar-powered rover's location on Mars. It has not been heard from for eight months since then.  

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  Visiting Mars next frontier in space: Ex-astronaut Charles Duke

  February 13, 2019 9:34 IST

  Duke, who retired as a Brigadier General in the US army, shared the emotional moments of putting his foot on the moon with students.

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  NASA spacecraft shrinking orbit to prepare for Mars 2020 Rover

  February 12, 2019 15:07 IST

  The operation will reduce the highest point of the MAVEN spacecraft’s elliptical orbit from 6,200 to 4,500 kilometres above the surface and prepare it to take on additional responsibility as a data-relay satellite for the Mars 2020 rover.

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  Boost for female 'big bang' in science

  February 11, 2019 17:22 IST

  On the occasion of International Day of Women and Girls in Science on Monday, a UN data revealed that despite 15 years of international effortto promote women in science, they continue to face barriers, Efe news said.  

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  Chimp 'mini-brains' help decode how humans got big brains

  February 11, 2019 17:18 IST

  At some point during human evolution, a handful of genetic changes triggered a dramatic threefold expansion of the brain's neocortex, the wrinkly outermost layer of brain tissue responsible for everything from language to self-awareness to abstract thought.  

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  Hubble discovers mysterious dark storm on Neptune: NASA

  February 08, 2019 16:41 IST

  Like Earth, Uranus and Neptune have seasons, which likely drive some of the features in their atmospheres, according to the US space agency.  

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  NASA's first mini-spacecraft in deep space goes silent

  February 07, 2019 15:02 IST

  It has been over a month since engineers have heard from MarCO, which followed NASA's InSight to the Red Planet.

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  Chinese satellite sends image of moon's captures rear side

  February 06, 2019 20:56 IST

  Earlier in January, Chang'e-4 lunar probe became the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on the far side of the moon.

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  India successfully launches 40th communication satellite GSAT-31

  February 06, 2019 9:23 IST

  The rocket was blasted off from Ariane Launch Complex at Kourou, a French territory located in northeastern coast of South America at at 2.31 am (IST).

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  Milky Way galaxy is 'warped, twisted' not flat: Study

  February 05, 2019 22:56 IST

  "We usually think of spiral galaxies as being quite flat, like Andromeda which you can easily see through a telescope," said Professor Richard de Grijs from Macquarie University in Australia.  

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  Earth may not appear as blue by 2100: MIT study

  February 05, 2019 15:34 IST

  The findings showed that climate change has been significantly affecting phytoplankton -- the tiny sea creatures -- in the world's oceans, which will lead to the change in colour -- intensifying its blue and green regions.   

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  NASA faced cybersecurity threat daily during US government shutdown

  February 05, 2019 15:32 IST

  The partial shutdown, which started on December 22 and ended on January 25, became the longest on record, overtaking the previous record of a 21-day impasse in 1995-96 under then President Bill Clinton.  

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  Hubble finds dwarf galaxy in our cosmic neighbourhood

  February 03, 2019 17:01 IST

  The team used the NASA/ESA (European Space Agency) telescope to study white dwarf stars within the globular cluster NGC 6752.

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  Earth's largest extinction event wiped out plants first: Study

  February 02, 2019 19:14 IST

  Roughly 252 million years ago, nickel byproduct from a volcanic eruption in Siberia drifted to Australia, kicking off the Earth-spanning cataclysm known as the "Great Dying".   

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  Warming oceans can increase frequency of extreme rain storms

  January 30, 2019 16:37 IST

  The study team, led by Hartmut Aumann of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, found that extreme storms -- those producing at least 3 millimetres of rain per hour over a 25-kilometre area -- formed when the sea surface temperature was higher than about 28 degrees Celsius.  

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  China reveals Chang'e-5 probe details: Report

  January 30, 2019 14:36 IST

  China National Space Administration (CNSA) plans to launch the mission with the goal of collecting samples from the near side of the Moon. They would be the first samples to be retrieved since 1976, Xinhua news agency reported.   

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  IIT Roorkee testing floating device to produce electricity from river surface

  January 30, 2019 13:50 IST

  Traditional hydropower plants require the construction of large scale dams, which have significant ecological and environmental consequences.  

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  NASA study suggests climate change may increase frequency of extreme storms

  January 30, 2019 12:17 IST

  The study concludes that if this were to happen, we could expect the frequency of extreme storms to increase by as much as 60 per cent by that time.

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  NASA solar probe to make closest approach to Sun in April

  January 30, 2019 9:39 IST

  The spacecraft completed its first orbit of the Sun, reaching the point in its orbit farthest from our star, called aphelion, NASA said in a statement.

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  Curiosity says farewell to Mars' Vera Rubin Ridge with one last selfie

  January 29, 2019 16:01 IST

  After having collected new samples from the Vera Rubin Ridge, the car-sized rover will now descend toward a clay region of Mount Sharp.

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  NASA's Opportunity rover might have 'died' on Mars: Scientists

  January 28, 2019 11:25 IST

  "Over the past seven months, we have attempted to contact Opportunity over 600 times,” said John Callas, project manager for Opportunity at the JPL.

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  Experts, images suggest a Saudi ballistic missile program

  January 26, 2019 19:02 IST

  Officials in Riyadh and the Saudi Embassy in Washington did not respond to requests for comment.  

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  NASA's New Horizons probe transmits clearer image of Ultima Thule

  January 26, 2019 16:18 IST

  On January 1, the spacecraft zipped past the ancient Ultima Thule, setting the record for flyby of the most distant planetary object in history.  

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  Scientists find Earth's oldest rock on Moon

  January 25, 2019 20:20 IST

  The rock was subsequently mixed with other lunar surface materials into one sample.