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On this day in 2010: Tendulkar became first batter to score double century
Updated : 4 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 24 (ANI): It was on this day, 12 years ago, when Sachin Tendulkar became the "first man on the planet" to score a double century in ODIs.
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Researchers identify secret of Venus, hidden in heat of night
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Lisbon [Portugal], February 23 (ANI): The second planet in our Solar System, which shines like a bright star when seen from the Earth and named after the Roman goddess of beauty, is the ever glowing Venus. Underneath its thick mantle of acid sulfuric clouds, at the surface 460 degrees Celsiu
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Widest ever separation of brown dwarf pair discovered by scientists
Updated : 4 years ago IST
California [US], February 21 (ANI): A brown dwarf is an astronomical object that is an intermediate between a planet and a star. Brown dwarfs usually have a mass less than 0.075 that of the Sun or roughly 75 times that of Jupiter. A team of astronomers has discovered a rare pair of brown dwa
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India has walked the talk on climate issues, we are working together for g
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Brussels [Belgium], February 17 (ANI): Noting that India has always "walked the talk" on the climate issue, Executive Vice-President of European Commission Frans Timmermans has said the European Union and India working together for the green transition and the 27 member bloc is eager to expa
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PM Modi to deliver the inaugural address at TERI's World Sustainable Devel
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New Delhi [India], February 15 (ANI/NewsVoir): Three heads of State and government including the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi, Ministers for Environment from about a dozen countries, representatives from the United Nations, heads of inter-governmental organizations, and delegates fr
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Researchers observe planetary bodies for first time in habitable zone of d
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
London [England], February 12 (ANI): White dwarfs are glowing embers of stars that have burned through all their hydrogen fuel. Nearly all stars, including the Sun, will eventually become white dwarfs, but very little is known about their planetary systems. A new study revealed the discovery
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Scientists predict efficiency of oxygen-evolving electrolysis on Moon and
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Manchester [England], February 12 (ANI): Often the question has arisen of whether Earth is the only planet with living organisms or not and what would be the conditions suitable for the growth and survival of life? Scientists have now provided more insight into the possibility of establishin
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Astronomers detect new planet around closest star to our solar system
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Santiago [Chile], February 11 (ANI): Astronomers have found evidence of another planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our Solar System.
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60 potential habitable planets found using new AI-based algorithm devised
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 10 (ANI): Utilizing an Artificial Intelligence-based algorithm, Indian Astronomers have devised a new approach for identifying potentially habitable planets with a high probability. As a result, around 60 potentially habitable planets have been found from 5000 tot
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Astronomers observe final moments of planetary remnants for the first time
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Coventry [England], February 10 (ANI): A white dwarf is known to be a small very dense star that is typically the size of a planet. It is formed when a low-mass star has exhausted all its central nuclear fuel and lost its outer layers as a planetary nebula. Astronomers at the University of W
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Research shows how Mars lost its oceans
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Tokyo [Japan], February 9 (ANI): It is a well-known fact that Mars once had oceans in part due to a protective magnetic field similar to Earth's. The layer of ice on the cap of the planet says it all. However, the magnetic field disappeared, and a new research may finally be able to explain
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Aurorae in Saturn sky? It's probably due to high altitude winds, says stud
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Leicester [England], February 8 (ANI): Saturn is the sixth planet in the solar system which has extremely large and bright rings around it. Now, Leicester space scientists have discovered a never-before-seen mechanism fuelling huge planetary aurorae at Saturn.
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