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Recipe is different, but titan has ingredients for life
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 2 (ANI): In a study recently published by Astronomy and Astrophysics, Neish -- a member of Western's Institute for Earth and Space Exploration (Western Space) -- and her collaborators at the European Space Agency (ESA) used advanced imaging technology to investigate
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Could life exist deep underground on Mars?
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
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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Galactic bar paradox resolved in Cosmic Dance
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Aug 26 (ANI): New light has been shed on a mysterious and long-standing conundrum at the very heart of our galaxy.
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IIA scientists discover He-enhanced cool bright stars among metal-rich par
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 14 (ANI): A team of scientists from the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), an autonomous institute under the Department of Science and Technology, has discovered a He(helium)-enhanced cool bright stars among the metal-rich sample of Omega Centauri.
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Scientists look inside central engine of solar flare for first time
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Massachusetts [USA], July 27 (ANI): Scientists from the Centre for Astrophysics, Harvard and Smithsonian and the New Jersey Institute of Technology on Monday announced the first successful measurement and characterisation of the 'central engine' of a large solar flare.
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ExoMars finds new gas signatures in Martian atmosphere
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 27 (ANI): ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has spotted new gas signatures at Mars. These are known to unlock new secrets about the Martian atmosphere and will enable a more accurate determination of whether there is methane, a gas associated with biological or geological
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New view of oldest light adds a twist to debate over the Universe's Age
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Santiago [Chile], July 17 (ANI): From a mountain high in Chile's Atacama Desert, astronomers with the National Science Foundation's Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) have taken a fresh look at the oldest light in the universe.
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Artificial Intelligence predicts which planetary systems will survive
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], July 14 (ANI): Rejecting the large range of unstable possibilities -- all the configurations that would lead to collisions -- would leave behind a sharper view of planetary systems around other stars, but it's not as easy as it sounds.
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Gigantic, red and full of spots
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], July 13 (ANI): Starspots are more common among red giant stars than previously thought. In the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics, researchers led by the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Germany report that approximately eight per cent of red gia
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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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From lab to space: Discovery of new organic molecule in interstellar molec
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 17 (ANI): Laboratory experiments performed at the Centre for Astrochemical Studies (CAS) of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) in Munich, together with astronomical observations conducted by the Italian National Institute of Astrophysics (
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Astronomers find elusive target hiding behind dust
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], June 8 (ANI): Astronomers acting on a hunch have likely resolved a mystery about young, still-forming stars and regions rich in organic molecules closely surrounding some of them.
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