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Planetary system's second Earth-size world discovered
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Using data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, scientists have identified an Earth-size world, called TOI 700 e, orbiting within the habitable zone of its star, the range of distances where liquid water could occur on a planet's surface. The world is 95% Earth's size and likel
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NASA's retired Compton mission reveals superheavy neutron stars
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Astronomers studying archival observations of powerful explosions called short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have detected light patterns indicating the brief existence of a superheavy neutron star shortly before it collapsed into a black hole. This fleeting, massive object likely formed from the
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James Webb telescope reveals Milky Way-like galaxies in young universe
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveal for the first time galaxies with stellar bars, elongated features of stars stretching from the centers of galaxies into their outer disks, at a time when the universe was a mere 25% of its present age. The finding of so-called barred galaxies,
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Nasal swab can provide early warning of emerging viruses: Research
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
As the Covid-19 pandemic showed, potentially dangerous new viruses can begin to spread in the population well before the global public health surveillance system can detect them.
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Bharat Biotech's nasal Covid vaccine to be priced at Rs 800 for private an
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Bharat Biotech's nasal COVID-19 vaccine iNCOVACC, which was given approval as a booster dose, will be priced at Rs 800 plus GST in private hospitals..
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Study: NASA's Mars rovers found manganese oxides in Gale's rocks
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
When NASA's Mars rovers found manganese oxides in rocks in the Gale and Endeavor craters on Mars in 2014, the discovery sparked some scientists to suggest that the red planet might have once had more oxygen in its atmosphere billions of years ago.
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Bharat Biotech's nasal Covid vaccine for adults gets Centre's nod, to be a
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Bharat Biotech's nasal vaccine - iNCOVACC has been approved by the Government of India and will be used as a heterologous booster dose for those above 18 years of age
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NASA retires Mars InSight lander mission after 4 years
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), on Wednesday retired its Mars InSight lander, 4 years after it arrived on the surface of the red planet.
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Chennai's Srimathy Kesan becomes the first Indian woman to experience zero
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Srimathy Kesan, a renowned space educator hailing from the city of Chennai, has become the first Indian woman to experience zero gravity, through a celebrity space mission in the United States, which enabled her to become a one-day astronaut.
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Astronomers discover clues about stellar 'glitching'
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Astronomers have found a way to peer into the physics of some of the brightest stars in the sky. Using data from NASA's Kepler space telescope, an international team of researchers has found new evidence that red giants, dying stars that have exhausted their supply of hydrogen and are in the
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Webb Space Telescope reveals previously shrouded newborn stars
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Rice University astronomer Megan Reiter and colleagues took a "deep dive" into one of the first images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and were rewarded with the discovery of telltale signs from two dozen previously unseen young stars about 7,500 light years from Earth.
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NASA launches international mission to survey Earth's water
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) spacecraft was launched atop a SpaceX rocket from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California with a prime mission of three years.
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