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  Huge and powerful: New Jupiter-like planet can ‘spin’ its parent stars, claims research

  World | June 09, 2016 20:18 IST

  New York: There is an evidence that a massive exoplanet a “hot Jupiter” is circling around its nearest satellite at such a high speed that it’s moving or ‘spinning up’ its nearby star with its

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  Saturn and Jupiter started off as tiny pebbles: Study

  World | August 24, 2015 9:56 IST

  Washington:  Gas giants such as Saturn and Jupiter may have been built by centimetre-sized pebbles that formed 4.5 billion years ago from dust and ice swirling around the newborn Sun, a new study suggests.Researchers have

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  Planet three times as large as Jupiter discovered

  World | August 20, 2015 9:18 IST

  Santiago:  Chilean astronomer Maritza Soto has discovered a planet three times as large as Jupiter orbiting a red giant star larger than the Sun and located some 290 million light years from Earth.A doctoral student

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  Scientists to hunt for alien life on Jupiter moons

  World | July 26, 2015 18:30 IST

  London: After a successful mission to Pluto last week, scientists are preparing to launch a probe to search for life on the icy moons of Saturn and Jupiter, media reports said.Earlier this week, the European

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  NASA mission to look for water on Jupiter's moon Europa

  World | June 18, 2015 14:28 IST

  Washington:  NASA has come a step closer to its planned mission to Europa which will try to find out if a liquid water ocean beneath the surface of the Jupiter's moon have the ingredients to

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  Nasa to look for alien life on Jupiter's moon Europa

  World | February 23, 2015 12:29 IST

  New Delhi: Nasa will start a mission to Jupiter's moon Europa in the hope of finding signs of life on the frozen moon.The agency is said to be encouraged by the blasts of water vapour

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  NASA solves the mystery of Jupiter's great red spot

  World | November 12, 2014 13:01 IST

  Washington: The ruddy colour of Jupiter's mysterious Great Red Spot is due to the effects of sunlight rather than chemicals from beneath the planet's clouds, a new NASA study has found.According to a new analysis

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  Rahul Gandhi propounds escape velocity theory for Dalits

  Politics | October 09, 2013 7:05 IST

  New Delhi:  Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi Tuesday spoke out forcefully for empowering the Dalits, saying the community needs the “escape velocity of Jupiter” to achieve success and attacked BSP leader Mayawati, saying she was

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  On Monday, Jupiter to make closest approach to Earth

  India | December 02, 2012 19:37 IST

  New Delhi, Dec 2 : Jupiter, the largest after the Sun in the solar system, will be at its biggest and brightest on Monday night much to the delight of sky-gazers. The planet, which has

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  Jupiter-bound Juno makes key manoeuvre

  World | August 31, 2012 13:46 IST

  Pasadena, California, Aug 31:  A Jupiter-bound spacecraft successfully fired its engine Thursday in the first of two crucial maneuvers intended to bring it toward Earth for a momentum-gathering fly-by.NASA officials said the Juno spacecraft, which

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  NASA Launches Juno Space Probe To Jupiter

  World | August 06, 2011 13:49 IST

  Cape Canaveral, Florida, Aug 6: American space agency NASA on Friday morning launched its $ 1.1 billion space probe  named Juno to Jupiter, the largest planet of the solar system.An Atlas 5 rocket  was launched

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  Where Next For NASA? Scientists Draw Up Wish List

  World | March 08, 2011 10:46 IST

  Los Angeles, Mar 8: Land a rover on Mars to collect rocks and soil samples that could later be returned to Earth. If that's a budget-buster, then orbit Jupiter's moon Europa, which may have a