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18 Engineering & Science Students of Chandigarh University Designated as '
Updated : 3 weeks, 5 days ago IST
Chandigarh [India], February 16: Taking a giant leap in the global space-science research, the students of Chandigarh University have been designated as NASA Citizen Scientists under the internationally renowned International Asteroid Search Campaign (IASC), a prestigious citizen-science ini
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Eight-Year-Old Delhi Boy Discovers Asteroid via NASA-Affiliated Search Cam
Updated : 3 months, 3 weeks ago IST
New Delhi [India], November 18: An eight-year-old from Delhi has made waves in the scientific community after identifying a new asteroid candidate in a NASA-affiliated citizen-science programme.
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Astronomers find the smallest main-belt asteroids ever detected: Study
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
The majority of known asteroids orbit inside the main asteroid belt, which is positioned between Mars and Jupiter at an average distance of around 250 million km from Earth. Since the discovery of the first asteroid in 1801, about 750.000 asteroids have been identified, primarily in the last
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ESRO MAGICA Illuminates the Cosmos: Students' Celestial Discoveries Take C
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 14: ESRO MAGICA, a leading space education provider, has achieved a celestial triumph as its students discovered a dozen celestial bodies during a recent NASA-supported Asteroid Search Campaign by the International Asteroid Search Collaboration (IASC). Guided by t
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IAU honours India's first professional meteor scientist Aswin Sekhar, name
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
The honour was conferred on him at the 2023 edition of Asteroids Comets Meteors Conference, which took place in Arizona on June 21, 2023.
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Study reveals humans' ancestors survived asteroid impact that killed dinos
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
In-depth research of the fossil record has shown a Cretaceous origin for placental mammals, which include humans, dogs, and bats, indicating they co-existed with dinosaurs for a short period before the dinosaurs became extinct.
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Cannes 2023: Wes Anderson's 'Asteroid City' gets six-minute plus standing
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
American filmmaker Wes Anderson's film 'Asteroid City' received a six-minute plus standing ovation at the Cannes film festival 2023.
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Asteroid findings from specks of space dust could save the planet: Researc
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
New research into the durability and age of an ancient asteroid made of rocky rubble and dust, revealed significant findings that could contribute to potentially saving the planet if one ever hurtled toward Earth.
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Solar system is estimated to be about 4.57 billion years old: Research
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Our solar system is estimated to be about 4.57 billion years old. Previous analyses of ancient meteorites have shown that minerals were created through chemical reactions with water as far back as 4.5 billion years ago. New findings from the Ryugu asteroid samples indicate that carbonates we
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Scientists have discovered the origins of the building blocks of life
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
A new study led by Southwest Research Institute Research Scientist Dr. Danna Qasim posits that interstellar cloud conditions may have played a significant role on the presence of key building blocks of life in the solar system.
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Scientists study life origins by simulating cosmic evolution
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Amino acids make up millions of proteins that drive the chemical gears of life, including essential bodily functions in animals. Because of amino acids' relationship to living things scientists are eager to understand the origins of these molecules. After all, amino acids may have helped spa
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Ancient asteroid grains provide insight into evolution of our solar system
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
The UK's national synchrotron facility, Diamond Light Source, was used by a large, international collaboration to study grains collected from a near-Earth asteroid to further our understanding of the evolution of our solar system.
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