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Earthquake felt in Jammu-Kashmir, parts of north India
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 5 (ANI): Jolts of an earthquake were felt in parts of Jammu and Kashmir and other areas of north India including Noida on Saturday morning.
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6.1-magnitude quake hits southeast Indian Ridge
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New York [US], February 5 (ANI/Xinhua): An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 jolted southeast Indian Ridge at 20:25:09 GMT on Friday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said.
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Studies find when puffy planets lose atmospheres, they become super-Earths
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Hawaii [US], February 4 (ANI): Mini-Neptunes are a class of exoplanets, which are planets that orbit stars outside our solar system. These worlds, which are smaller, denser versions of the planet Neptune, consist of large rocky cores surrounded by thick blankets of gas. Studies have identifi
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Study estimates that close to 9,200 tree species of Earth, yet to be disco
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Michigan [US], February 4 (ANI): A new study involving more than 100 scientists from across the globe and the largest forest database yet has assembled shocking estimates of there being 73,000 tree species on the Earth, including about 9,200 species yet to be discovered.
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Study finds what rise of oxygen on early Earth reveals about life on other
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Montreal [Canada], February 3 (ANI): The question which always intrigues astronomers is, when did the Earth reach oxygen levels sufficient to support animal life? Researchers from McGill University have discovered that a rise in oxygen levels occurred in step with the evolution and expansion
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Electromagnetic 'tug-of-war' lights up Jupiter's upper atmosphere, says st
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Leicester [England], February 3 (ANI): The largest planet of the solar system, Jupiter, houses a lot of mysteries in it. New Leicester space research has revealed, for the first time, a complex 'tug-of-war' lights up aurorae in Jupiter's upper atmosphere, using a combination of data from NAS
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Moons may yield clues to what makes planets habitable, says study
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Tokyo [Japan], February 2 (ANI): Earth's moon is vital in making it function. It controls the length of the day and ocean tides, which affect the biological cycles of lifeforms on our planet. The moon also contributes to Earth's climate by stabilizing its spin axis, offering an ideal environ
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5.5 magnitude quake hits Ohonua, Tonga
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Nuku'alofa [Tonga], February 2 (ANI/Xinhua): An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.5 jolted 74 km ENE of Ohonua, Tonga at 10:26:33 GMT on Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
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Earth has not one, but two Trojan asteroids now, reveals recent study
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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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Earthquake of magnitude 6 hits Timor-Leste
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Dili [Timor-Leste], February 2 (ANI): An earthquake of magnitude 6 on the Richter scale hit 321km east-northeast of Dili, Timor-Leste on Wednesday.
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Even dying stars can give birth to planets, suggest astronomers
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Leuven [Belgium], February 1 (ANI): In any galaxy, planets are usually not much older than the stars around which they revolve. For example, the Sun was born 4.6 billion years ago, and not long after that, Earth came into the world. But KU Leuven astronomers have discovered that a completely
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5.8 magnitude earthquake hits Kermadec Islands region
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Kermadec Islands [New Zealand], January 31 (ANI): A magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck the Kermadec Islands region in New Zealand, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said on Friday (local time).
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