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Modeling explains how Ceres, a dwarf planet, drives unexpected geologic ac
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 1 (ANI): For a long time, our view of Ceres was fuzzy, according to a geoscientist. A dwarf planet and the largest body found in the asteroid belt the region between Jupiter and Mars speckled with hundreds of thousands of asteroids, Ceres had no distinguishable surfac
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Bill Murray no longer a part of Wes Anderson's 'Asteroid City'; see why
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 23 (ANI): After Focus Features boarded the project 'Asteroid City' and unveiled new details about the film, Bill Murray's absence didn't settle down easily with fans. Soon after, fans started talking about it on social media only to later realise that the actor has been
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New thrilling snaps of Jupiter taken by world's most powerful telescope
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 17 (ANI): James Webb Space Telescope's latest photographs demonstrate that it is not just capable of seeing cosmic objects that are far away from Earth. On Thursday, NASA unveiled Webb's first images of the solar system, which included Jupiter and whirling asteroids.
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Hopping space dust makes asteroids look rougher: Study
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 12 (ANI): When NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at the asteroid Bennu, scientists discovered something surprising about the asteroid's surface wasn't smooth like many were expecting but was covered in large boulders. Now, a team of physicists think they know why.
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Research suggests hopping space dust makes asteroids look rougher
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 11 (ANI): According to a new study from physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder, like corn kernels pop in a frying pan, tiny grains of dust may hop around on the surface of asteroids.
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Researchers simulate defence test against potential asteroid impacts on Ea
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 2 (ANI): NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission is the world's first full-scale planetary defence test against potential asteroid impacts on Earth. Researchers now show that instead of leaving behind a relatively small crater, the impact of the DART spac
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Gaia space telescope rocks science of asteroids: Study
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 20 (ANI): According to a study by the University of Helsinki, the European Gaia space mission has produced an unprecedented amount of new, improved, and detailed data for almost two billion objects in the Milky Way galaxy and the surrounding cosmos. The Gaia Data Rel
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Meteorites that helped form earth may have formed in outer solar system, s
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], March 13 (ANI): A new study led by researchers at the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at Tokyo Institute of Technology suggested that these asteroidal materials might have formed very far out in the early Solar System then been transported into the inner Solar System by ch
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Study examines last day of dinosaurs
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Uppsala [Sweden], February 28 (ANI): Dinosaurs have been extinct for over 65 million years and yet, questions still surround as to how massive creatures like them became extinct to such an extent that not even a trace of them is left now. Scientists have been pondering and researching this f
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Earth has not one, but two Trojan asteroids now, reveals recent study
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Barcelona [Spain], February 2 (ANI): Trojan asteroid, also called Trojan planet, is any one of a number of asteroids that occupy a stable Lagrangian point in a planet's orbit around the Sun. Recent research by astronomers has discovered the second Earth Trojan asteroid, almost a decade after
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Consistent asteroid showers rock previous thinking on Mars craters: Study
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Perth [Australia], January 22 (ANI): A new research led by New Curtin University, confirmed that the frequency of asteroid collisions that formed impact craters on Mars, has been consistent over the past 600 million years.
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NASA, SpaceX launch new test mission 'DART' to defend Earth
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], November 24 (ANI): Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), a new mission was launched by NASA on Wednesday to test technology for defending Earth against potential asteroid or comet hazards.
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