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New study to search universe for signs of technological civilisations
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Cambridge (Massachusetts) [USA], June 20 (ANI): Scientists at the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard and Smithsonian and the University of Rochester are collaborating on a project to search the universe for signs of life via technosignatures, after receiving the first NASA non-radio technosign
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Ultra-bright X-ray source awakens near a galaxy not so far away
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 3 (ANI): A new ultra-bright source of X-rays has awakened in between our galactic neighbours the Magellanic Clouds, after a 26-year slumber. This is the second-closest such object known to date, with a brightness greater than a million Suns.
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Large simulation finds new origin of supermassive black holes
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 2 (ANI): Computer simulations conducted by astrophysicists at Tohoku University in Japan, have revealed a new theory for the origin of supermassive black holes. In this theory, the precursors of supermassive black holes grow by swallowing up not only interstellar
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Fresh antimatter study will help search for dark matter
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], May 29 (ANI): The ALICE collaboration has presented new results on the production rates of antideuterons based on data collected at the highest collision energy delivered so far at the Large Hadron Collider.
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MAVEN maps electric currents around Mars that are fundamental to atmospher
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 27 (ANI): Five years after NASA's MAVEN spacecraft entered into orbit around Mars, data from the mission has led to the creation of a map of electric current systems in the Martian atmosphere.
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Astrophysicists capture new class of transient objects
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 27 (ANI): Move aside, AT2018COW. There is a new astronomical transient in the universe, and it is faster, heavier and brighter at radio wavelengths than its mysterious predecessors.
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Galactic crash may have triggered Solar System formation
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C.[USA], May 25 (ANI): The formation of the Sun, the Solar System and the subsequent emergence of life on Earth may be a consequence of a collision between our galaxy, the Milky Way, and a smaller galaxy called Sagittarius, discovered in the 1990s to be orbiting our galactic hom
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Exoplanet climate 'Decoder' aids search for life
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], May 19 (ANI): After examining a dozen types of suns and a roster of planet surfaces, Cornell University astronomers have developed a practical model -- an environmental colour "decoder" -- to tease out climate clues for potentially habitable exoplanets in galaxies far aw
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Lava-like mud flows on Mars
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], May 19 (ANI): Scientists have long suspected that the 'fire-breathing' volcanoes that spread large quantities of flowing lava over Mars were not the only kind. The numerous mountain cones in the northern hemisphere of the Red Planet may be the result of mud volcanoes.
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Salty liquids on Mars -- present, but not habitable?
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 11 (ANI): Several recent observations of Mars have hinted that it might presently harbour liquid water, a requirement for life as we know it. However, in a new paper in Nature Astronomy, a team of researchers have shown that stable liquids on present-day Mars are n
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Bending the bridge between two galaxy clusters!
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 11 (ANI): Several hundred million years ago, two galaxy clusters collided and then passed through each other. This mighty event released a flood of hot gas from each galaxy cluster that formed an unusual bridge between the two objects. This bridge is now being pumm
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Interstellar asteroids found hiding in plain sight
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 23 (ANI): A new study has identified the first known permanent population of asteroids originating from outside our Solar System. The objects are believed to have been captured from other stars billions of years ago and have been orbiting our Sun in disguise ever
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