Solar System
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Neutron stars may generate gravitational waves continuously, say Indian scientists
World | Dec 15, 2016, 11:19 PM ISTIndian scientists have called for careful observations to detect gravitational waves as many fast spinning dense neutron stars generate gravitational waves continuously. Neutron stars are the densest observable objects in the universe, with a fistful
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'Super Earth’ found orbiting nearby star
World | Nov 20, 2016, 05:32 PM ISTScientists have discovered a new world right round the corner from Earth. A new ‘super Earth’ planet was found with a mass around 5.4 times that of the Earth, orbiting a very bright star near
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Kepler-80: The ‘alien solar system’ where one year is as long as a day on Earth
World | Jul 25, 2016, 05:24 PM ISTAstronomers 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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Life at Venus! Slightly different conditions could have made it our home, not Earth
World | Jul 07, 2016, 07:38 AM ISTWashington DC: If there had been just tiny evolutionary changes, life could have been existed on Venus and not Earth, a new study has claimed. According to a a hypothesis by Rice University scientists, these
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Pluto could have subsurface ocean that still holds alien life, suggest fresh clues obtained by NASA
World | Jun 22, 2016, 05:21 PM ISTWashington: Fresh clues obtained by NASA’s New Horizons reveal that dwarf planet Pluto in the Kuiper belt, which is believed to have once had a liquid ocean on its surface, may still have liquid water
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Strongest Aurora found beyond solar system
World | Jul 30, 2015, 11:27 AM ISTWashington: Astronomers have discovered the first aurora that is 10,000 times more powerful than any previously seen beyond the solar system.The aurora - similar to the famous "Northern Lights" on Earth - was found not
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Conditions on Pluto: Incredibly hazy with flowing ice
World | Jul 25, 2015, 07:14 AM ISTCape Canaveral, Fla. (AP): Pluto is hazier than scientists expected and appears to be covered with flowing ice.The team responsible for the New Horizons flyby of Pluto last week released new pictures Friday of the
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NASA probe flies past Pluto, world awaits historic images
World | Jul 14, 2015, 06:18 PM ISTWashington: In what may rewrite science books soon, NASA's New Horizons mission - launched in 2006 and has travelled over 4.8 billion km so far at the speed of 45,000 km per hour - fly past
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Now, weather forecasts for planets beyond our solar system
World | May 13, 2015, 02:12 PM ISTToronto: Imagine discussing and comparing weather reports of alien planets hundreds to thousands of light years away with our own. This is quite probable as an international team of astrophysicists have prepared weather forecasts for
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Runaway star grazed solar system 70,000 years ago
World | Feb 18, 2015, 09:14 PM ISTNew Delhi: An international team of astronomers have discovered a runaway star wandered into our solar system's backyard about 70000 years ago. The findings are published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.This runaway star, nick-named "Scholz's
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NASA find signs of water on 5 planets beyond solar system
World | Dec 05, 2013, 04:32 PM ISTWashington: Two recent studies by NASA with the help of Hubble Space Telescope has detected the presence of water in the atmospheres of five planets beyond our solar system.The two research teams used Hubble's Wide
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Seven interesting facts about Solar System
World | Apr 23, 2013, 06:56 AM ISTNew Delhi: Solar System was formed around 4.6 billion years ago from the gravitational collapse of a giant molecular cloud. The overall structure of the charted regions of the Solar System consists of the Sun,
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Five innovative ways for Interplanetary Communication
World | Mar 02, 2013, 06:50 AM ISTImagine that you're an astronaut who's been sent to establish a colony on Mars, where you spot something really incredible, and want to show it to your partners on earth. You might be able to
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Earth will be closest to Sun on Jan 2
India | Jan 01, 2013, 08:17 PM ISTNew Delhi, Jan 1 : The Earth will be closest to the Sun tomorrow at 10:10 am IST at a distance of 147 million kilometres, Planetary Society of India General Secretary N Sri Raghunandan Kumar
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Two Earth-Like Planets Spotted Around Distant Star
World | Dec 21, 2011, 09:13 PM ISTNew York, Dec 21: Scientists have found two Earth-sized planets orbiting a star outside the solar system, an encouraging sign for prospects of finding life elsewhere. The discovery shows that such planets exist and that