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  Planets with oxygen don't necessarily have life: Study

  December 19, 2018 13:34 IST

  Simulating in the lab the atmospheres of planets beyond the solar system, researchers from the Johns Hopkins University in Maryland successfully created both organic compounds and oxygen, absent of life.  

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  Superflares from red dwarfs may affect habitability of planets

  October 22, 2018 9:24 IST

  Young low-mass stars flare much more frequently and more energetically than old stars and middle-age stars like our Sun, the findings of the study published in the Astrophysical Journal showed.  

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  Four giant planets around young star discovered

  October 16, 2018 18:07 IST

  The star is just two million years old -- a ‘toddler’ in astronomical terms -- and is surrounded by a huge disc of dust and ice.

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  Heads up! Did we just find 'Star Trek' planet Vulcan?

  September 23, 2018 16:44 IST

  The discovery was made using the Dharma Endowment Foundation Telescope (DEFT), a 50-inch telescope located atop Mt Lemmon in southern Arizona, US.

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  Here's all you want to know about the newly discovered 840 small planets beyond Neptune

  June 03, 2018 13:30 IST

  The latest discovery is a result of a five year project called the Outer Solar System Origins Survey (OSSOS).

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  Now, take a tour to local planets and moons of the solar system with Google Maps

  October 17, 2017 15:58 IST

  Continuing with its innovations, Google has updated the Google Maps which comes as a treat for the stargazers.

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  Scientists discover 'Twin' stars hosting three massive planets in binary star system

  World | September 01, 2016 18:48 IST

  Scientists have discovered three massive planets in a binary system that is composed of stellar twins. One star hosts two planets and the other hosts the third. The system represents the smallest-separation binary in

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  Kepler-80: The ‘alien solar system’ where one year is as long as a day on Earth

  World | July 25, 2016 17:24 IST

  Astronomers have discovered a bizarre ‘alien’ solar system that has planets orbiting its star so tightly that one of them has a year as along as a day on planet Earth.

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  Four of the 100 planets discovered by NASA’s Kepler mission could host life

  World | July 19, 2016 14:16 IST

  Data from NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has enabled scientists to discover a treasure trove of over 100 planets outside the solar system, some of which have the possibility of hosting life.

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  Three Earth-like planets up there: NASA

  World | January 07, 2015 11:20 IST

  Washington: In a major find, NASA's Kepler Space Telescope has discovered three new Earth-size habitable or "Goldilocks" zones around Sun-like stars. Of the three, two are likely made of rock like our Earth.Of more than