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How intense and dangerous is cosmic radiation on the Moon?
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 26 (ANI): The Chang'e-4 lunar lander touched down on the far side of the Moon on 3 January 2019, with a German instrument for measuring space radiation on board. Since then, the Lunar Lander Neutron and Dosimetry (LND) instrument has been measuring temporally resol
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Astronomers determine how disk galaxies evolve so smoothly
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Washington [US], September 26 (ANI): Computer simulations are showing astrophysicists how massive clumps of gas within galaxies scatter some stars from their orbits, eventually creating the smooth, exponential fade in the brightness of many galaxy disks.
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Let the stars & planets guide you in staying healthy
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New Delhi [India] September 25 (ANI/Mediawire): Hippocrates, the ancient Greek physician once said, "A physician without the knowledge of astrology has no right to call himself a physician."
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Astro-Strategist Hirav Shah forays into the world of films after proving h
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New Delhi [India], September 24 (ANI): Hirav Shah is an Astro-Strategist - he mixes Business Principles with Astrology and brings strategic solutions to the table.
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Could life exist deep underground on Mars?
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Massachusetts [US], September 23 (ANI): Recent science missions and results are bringing the search for a life closer to home, and scientists at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard, and Smithsonian (CfA) and the Florida Institute of Technology (FIT) may have figured out how to determine wh
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School-bus-size asteroid to safely zoom past Earth
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Washington [US], September 23 (ANI): A small near-Earth asteroid (or NEA) will briefly visit Earth's neighbourhood on Thursday, September 24, zooming past at a distance of about 13,000 miles (21,000 kilometres) above our planet's surface.
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Sounds from around the Milky Way
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Washington [US], September 23 (ANI): The center of our Milky Way galaxy is too distant for us to visit in person, but we can still explore it. Telescopes give us a chance to see what the galactic center looks like in different types of light. By translating the inherently digital data (in th
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Sylvester Stallone's mother and astrologer Jackie dies at 98
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Washington [US], September 22 (ANI): Jackie Stallone, celebrity astrologer, the mother of Hollywood actor Sylvester, Toni D'Alto, and singer Frank, has died aged 98.
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Earth-sized 'Pi planet' discovered by astronomers at MIT
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Cambridge [UK], September 22 (ANI): Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), along with others, have discovered an earth-sized "Pi Planet" that revolves around its star every 3.14 days.
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Study shows difficulty in finding evidence of life on Mars
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], September 16 (ANI): Acidic fluids -- which once flowed on the Martian surface -- may have destroyed biological evidence hidden within Mars' iron-rich clays, according to researchers at Cornell University and at Spain's Centro de Astrobiologia.
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Possible marker of life spotted on Venus
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Washington [US], September 14 (ANI): A rare molecule -- phosphine -- has been detected in the atmosphere of Venus, an international team of astronomers announced today leading to speculation of life on Earth's nearest planetary neighbour.
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Dark matter destruction ruled out in galactic center
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 14 (ANI): The detection more than a decade ago by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope of an excess of high-energy radiation in the centre of the Milky Way convinced some physicists that they were seeing evidence of the annihilation of dark matter particles, but a t
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