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Lava-like mud flows on Mars
Updated : 6 years 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 : 6 years 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 : 6 years 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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Travis Scott song debut sets Fortnite record, while Stormi steals the show
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 25 (ANI): American rapper Travis Scott went live for his record-breaking virtual concert on Fortnite. But, the rapper had to cut it short because his adorable daughter, Stormi, demanded more of his attention.
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Interstellar asteroids found hiding in plain sight
Updated : 6 years, 1 month 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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USGS releases first-ever comprehensive geologic map of the Moon
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 23 (ANI): Have you ever wondered what kind of rocks make up those bright and dark splotches on the moon? Well, the USGS has just released a new authoritative map to help explain the 4.5-billion-year-old history of our nearest neighbour in space.
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Hubble probes alien comet's chemical makeup
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 20 (ANI): Interstellar comet 2I/Borisov is providing a glimpse of another star system's planetary building blocks, using new observations from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
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Milky Way could be catapulting stars into its outer halo, say astronomers
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
California [USA], April 20 (ANI): Though mighty, the Milky Way and galaxies of similar mass are not without scars chronicling turbulent histories.
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Star dancing around supermassive black hole confirms Einstein's theory
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 16 (ANI): A star orbiting the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way moves just as predicted by physicist Albert Einstein Einstein over 100 years ago, astronomers have found.
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Earth-size, habitable-zone planet found hidden in early NASA Kepler data
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 16 (ANI): A team of transatlantic scientists, using reanalysed data from NASA's Kepler space telescope, has discovered an Earth-size exoplanet orbiting in its star's habitable zone, the area around a star where a rocky planet could support liquid water.
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Astronomers detect most energetic outflow from a distant quasar
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 15 (ANI): Researchers, led by Western University's Sarah Gallagher, using the Gemini North telescope on Hawai'i's Maunakea have detected the most energetic wind from any quasar ever measured. This outflow, which is travelling at nearly 13% of the speed of light,
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New research helps explain why the solar wind is hotter than expected
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 15 (ANI): When a fire extinguisher is opened, the compressed carbon dioxide forms ice crystals around the nozzle, providing a visual example of the physics principle that gases and plasmas cool as they expand. When our sun expels plasma in the form of the solar w
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