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Bangalore Watch Company Pays Tribute to ISRO's Chandrayaan Missions with a
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Bangalore (Karnataka) [India], June 9: In the spirit of producing world-class watches that tell stories from India, Bangalore Watch Company™ celebrates India's Chandrayaan missions with two new watches called Manzinus and Earthshine. The Manzinus model contains a piece of an outer-s
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Research sheds new light on cosmic development of amino acids
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Scientists use computer models of biological components found in meteorites to help them understand the origins of life on Earth.
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Origin of Earth's volatile chemicals liked to meteorites: Research
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
By analysing meteorites, researchers from the Imperial College of London have uncovered the likely far-flung origin of Earth's volatile chemicals, some of which form the building blocks of life.
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Meteorite hunters find 17-pound space rock in Antarctica
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Antarctica is a tough place to work, for obvious reasons it's bitterly cold, remote, and wild. However, it's one of the best places in the world to hunt for meteorites. That's partly because Antarctica is a desert, and its dry climate limits the degree of weathering the meteorites experience
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Solar system is estimated to be about 4.57 billion years old: Research
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Our solar system is estimated to be about 4.57 billion years old. Previous analyses of ancient meteorites have shown that minerals were created through chemical reactions with water as far back as 4.5 billion years ago. New findings from the Ryugu asteroid samples indicate that carbonates we
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Study sheds light on world in grains of interstellar dust
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
A recent study by Hokkaido University explains how dust grains form in interstellar gas and could offer significant insights to astronomers and help materials scientists develop valuable nanoparticles.
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Scientists have discovered the origins of the building blocks of life
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
A new study led by Southwest Research Institute Research Scientist Dr. Danna Qasim posits that interstellar cloud conditions may have played a significant role on the presence of key building blocks of life in the solar system.
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Martian meteorite contains large diversity of organic compounds
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
The Martian meteorite Tissint contains a huge diversity of organic compounds, found an international team of researchers led by Technical University of Munich and Helmholtz Munich's Philippe Schmitt-Kopplin and including Carnegie's Andrew Steele. Their work is published in Science Advances.
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Researchers reveal that meteorites could have given Earth building blocks
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Even as detailed images of distant galaxies from the James Webb Space Telescope show us more of the greater universe, scientists still disagree about how life began here on Earth. One hypothesis is that meteorites delivered amino acids life's building blocks to our planet. Now, researchers h
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Mars meteorite impacts reveal fresh information about planet's crust
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Data from two meteorite impacts on Mars recorded by NASA's InSight spacecraft provide new insights into the structure of the Martian crust.
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Researchers discover largest known fresh meteorite strike on Mars
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Researchers have helped discover the largest fresh meteorite impact craters on Mars since NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter began scouring the planet for them 16 years ago, one of which contained ice at the lowest altitude ever observed.
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Bangalore Watch Company celebrates the Indian space program with 50 watche
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Bangalore (Karnataka) [India], September 22 (ANI/NewsVoir): In the spirit of producing world-class wristwatches that tell stories from India, Bangalore Watch Company™ celebrates the Indian space program through a Limited Edition 50 watch set. Each of the 50 watches contains a piece of
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