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Could mini-Neptunes be irradiated ocean planets?
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], July 20 (ANI): Many exoplanets known today are 'super-Earths,' with a radius 1.3 times that of Earth, and 'mini-Neptunes,' with 2.4 Earth radii. Mini-Neptunes, which are less dense, was long thought to be gas planets, made up of hydrogen and helium.
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NASA: Data from Cassini may explain Saturn's atmospheric mystery
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 7 (ANI): The upper layers in the atmospheres of gas giants -- Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune -- are hot, just like Earth's. But unlike Earth, the Sun is too far from these outer planets to account for the high temperatures. Their heat source has been one of
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Astronomers spot far-away planet that could possibly support life
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Cambridge [England], Feb 27 (ANI): Astronomers have found an exoplanet more than twice the size of Earth which could be potentially habitable. This discovery might take us a step closer to search for life on planets significantly larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune.
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Sub-Neptune sized planet validated using Habitable-zone Planet Finder
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 21 (ANI): The Habitable-zone Planet Finder (HPF), an astronomical instrument has confirmed an object initially observed by the Kepler spacecraft is an exoplanet.
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Why Uranus and Neptune are different
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 5 (ANI): According to Researchers at the University of Zurich, the two outermost giant planets of the solar system, Uranus and Neptune, have similar masses but are strikingly different.
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Cold Neptune and two Temperate Super-Earths found orbiting near stars
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 14 (ANI): A "cold Neptune" and two possibly inhabitable worlds are part of a set of five newly found exoplanets and eight exoplanet candidates, who have found themselves orbiting nearby Red Zwilling Stars identified by a team led by Carnegie's Fabo Feng and Paul Bu
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HDFC ERGO provides title insurance for Shraddha Landmark's Project
Updated : 6 years, 12 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Mar 15 (ANI/NewsVoir): HDFC ERGO, country's third largest non-life insurance provider in the private sector, today announced the adoption of their title insurance policy by Shraddha Landmark Private Ltd. (SLPL), for their upcoming project in Bhandup (West) near
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Newly-found distant 'warm Neptune' has primitive atmosphere
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 12 (ANI): A team of scientists has discovered a distant Neptune-sized planet that has clear skies and an atmosphere almost entirely composed of hydrogen and helium, scientists have discovered.
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