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  Hubble Space Telescope discovers planet vanishing at record speed

  Science | December 14, 2018 12:05 IST

  Researchers hypothesise that these Neptunes get stripped of their atmospheres and ultimately become smaller planets.

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  Google's new tool can help you make our planet healthy

  Internet | September 08, 2018 15:47 IST

  The tool called Your Plan, Your Planet, is an interactive way to understand your environmental impact and learn simple, science-based ways to improve it.  

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  Astronomers report 1st image of baby planet being formed

  Science | July 03, 2018 12:18 IST

  A first confirmed image of a planet forming in the dust swirling around a young star has been captured.

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  Indian scientists discover sub-Saturn sized planet

  Science | June 23, 2018 15:44 IST

  The planet will be known as EPIC 211945201b or K2-236b.

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  Utmost condition of weather on Venus might change length of its days

  Science | June 20, 2018 11:21 IST

  New results from a simulation continue to paint a strange picture of our noxious neighbor. It seems that an interaction between the planet’s mountains and its atmosphere could create waves strong enough to change the length of a Venusian day by up to two minutes.

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  Indian scientists discover planet 600 light years away from earth

  Science | June 08, 2018 22:51 IST

  The host star itself is about 600 light years away from the Earth. The discovery was made by measuring the mass of the planet using the indigenously designed  “PRL Advance Radial-velocity Abu-sky Search” 

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  ISRO gears for Venus mission, invites proposals for experiments

  India | April 24, 2017 10:53 IST

  India’s mission to Venus drew a step closer to reality this week with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) inviting proposals from scientists across the country experiments to conduct experiments on the yellow planet.

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  NASA discovers 7 Earth-size worlds orbiting star 40 light-years away

  World | February 23, 2017 7:12 IST

  In a first, the team of astronomers have unveiled seven Earth-size planets orbiting a nearby star that could potentially harbor life. For the first time ever, astronomers have discovered seven Earth-size planets orbiting a nearby

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  Brazilian astronomers discover 2 planets near sunlike star

  World | November 06, 2016 11:04 IST

  A team of Brazilian astronomers has discovered two new planets around a star similar to the sun known as HIP 68468. The two new planets, dubbed "super Neptune" and "super Earth", are the first to

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  Scientists discover oldest known planet-forming disk

  World | October 23, 2016 14:44 IST

  Scientists believe they have found the oldest known planet-forming disk - a 45-million-year-old ring of gas and dust that orbits around a young star. Led by Steven Silverberg of University of Oklahoma, the team described

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  Scientists discover oldest known planetary disk

  World | October 22, 2016 16:17 IST

  A gathering of stargazers believe to have discovered an oldest known planet-shaping disk - a 45-million-year-old ring of gas and tidy that circles around a young star. Circumstellar disks around red dwarfs like this one

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  Did you know the Sun is tilting? Mysterious Planet Nine could be responsible for it

  World | October 21, 2016 12:11 IST

  Planet Nine, the huge, distant planet that was predicted to exist in January, may be responsible for the unusual tilt of the Sun, a new study has found. This planet could be adding a wobble

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  ‘Super aliens’ could feed on cosmic rays, says study

  World | October 16, 2016 18:52 IST

  Cosmic rays, one of the most dangerous aspects of space for the human body, could really be a wellspring of life, a new study proposes. The study of a bacterium thriving deep in a South

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  NASA's Hubble space telescope spots a planet orbiting two stars

  World | September 23, 2016 17:54 IST

  Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble space telescope have discovered a planet orbiting two stars in a system located about 8,000 light-years away towards the centre of our galaxy. The planet orbits roughly 300 million miles

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  This new analysis method may narrow down search for Earth 2.0

  World | August 26, 2016 11:36 IST

  A new method for analysing the chemical composition of stars may help scientists find alien planets where life like ours can form, a new study has found. Researchers from Yale University in the US have

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  Venus-like exoplanet may be brimming with oxygen but has no life, claims study

  World | August 19, 2016 15:50 IST

  Researchers have reported that the discovery of Venus-like distant planet GJ 1132b, located 39 light years away from our home planet, may have oxygen but has no signs of life on it. The researchers

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  Discovered: ‘Second Earth’ close to our planet that could potentially support life

  World | August 17, 2016 14:39 IST

  In an indication of the possible presence of life on an alien planet, scientists have discovered another planet similar to earth that could support life, just outside our solar system. According to reports, the

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  Early animals may have caused first mass extinction, say researchers

  World | July 31, 2016 7:17 IST

  In a new study, researchers, it has been discovered that new fossil found in southeast African country of Namibia reinforces the theory suggesting that the world’s first mass extinction was caused due to the planet's

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  NASA's new planet hunter will now search for life near Earth

  World | July 29, 2016 17:27 IST

  Furthering its endeavour to reveal the hidden mysteries of the universe, US-based NASA is now training its focus on hunting Earth-sized planets nearby. The scout begins with the launch of the planet-hunting Transiting Exoplanet Survey

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  NASA reveals something new about Mars that affects entire planet

  World | June 14, 2016 11:25 IST

  New Delhi: While examining the seasonal patterns of Mars, NASA revealed stunning pictures of a seasonal dust storm pattern on the surface of Red Planet. After decades of research NASA scientists discovered three distinct regional