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USGS releases first-ever comprehensive geologic map of the Moon
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 23 (ANI): Have you ever wondered what kind of rocks make up those bright and dark splotches on the moon? Well, the USGS has just released a new authoritative map to help explain the 4.5-billion-year-old history of our nearest neighbour in space.
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Iran's Guards launch its first military satellite
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Tehran, April 22, IRNA - The first military satellite of Iran was successfully put on orbit by the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) on Wednesday.
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Milky Way could be catapulting stars into its outer halo
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
California [USA], April 20 (ANI): Astronomers have shown that clusters of supernovas can cause the birth of scattered, eccentrically orbiting suns in outer stellar halos of Milky Way, upending commonly held notions of how star systems have formed and evolved over billions of years.
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Star dancing around supermassive black hole confirms Einstein's theory
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 16 (ANI): A star orbiting the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way moves just as predicted by physicist Albert Einstein Einstein over 100 years ago, astronomers have found.
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Earth-size, habitable-zone planet found hidden in early NASA Kepler data
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 16 (ANI): A team of transatlantic scientists, using reanalysed data from NASA's Kepler space telescope, has discovered an Earth-size exoplanet orbiting in its star's habitable zone, the area around a star where a rocky planet could support liquid water.
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Astronomers detect first double helium-core white dwarf gravitational wave
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 3 (ANI): Scientists at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announced the detection of J2322+0509, a detached binary white dwarf composed of two helium-core stars with a short orbital period. It is the first gravitational wave source of its kind ever detec
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Japan to launch sample return mission to Martian moon Phobos
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], Feb 21 (ANI): Japanese space agency JAXA is gearing up for an ambitious unmanned space expedition to explore Phobos, one of the two moons that orbit Mars.
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Iranian satellite fails to reach earth's orbit
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Tehran [Iran], Feb 10 (ANI): Iran on Sunday failed to successfully launch an indigenous research satellite named "Zafar" into the Earth's orbit as it could not attain the necessary speed.
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US spy satellite being shadowed by Russian "inspector" spacecraft
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 1 (ANI): An American spy satellite is apparently being stalked by a Russian satellite in the Earth's orbit.
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ISRO readying low-cost launch vehicles
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], Jan 31: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Friday announced that it is preparing low-cost satellite launch vehicles costing around Rs 30-35 crores each, which can put into orbit satellites weighing 500 kgs.
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ISRO readying low-cost launch vehicles
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], Jan 31: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Friday announced that it is preparing low-cost satellite launch vehicles costing around Rs 30-35 crores each, which can put into orbit satellites weighing 500 kgs.
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Solar orbiter mission to study Sun to be launched on Feb 7
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Michigan [USA], Jan 31 (ANI): A solar orbiter mission by the researchers of the University of Michigan will be launched on February 7 for studying the physics of the Sun and will also be the first to capture the images of Sun's poles.
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