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Astronomers suggest that dying stars can give birth to planets
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Washington [US], February 5 (ANI): Planets are usually not much older than the stars in any galaxy, but a recent study by KU Leuven astronomers has discovered that a completely different scenario is also possible.
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Studies find when puffy planets lose atmospheres, they become super-Earths
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Hawaii [US], February 4 (ANI): Mini-Neptunes are a class of exoplanets, which are planets that orbit stars outside our solar system. These worlds, which are smaller, denser versions of the planet Neptune, consist of large rocky cores surrounded by thick blankets of gas. Studies have identifi
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Study finds what rise of oxygen on early Earth reveals about life on other
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Montreal [Canada], February 3 (ANI): The question which always intrigues astronomers is, when did the Earth reach oxygen levels sufficient to support animal life? Researchers from McGill University have discovered that a rise in oxygen levels occurred in step with the evolution and expansion
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Electromagnetic 'tug-of-war' lights up Jupiter's upper atmosphere, says st
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Leicester [England], February 3 (ANI): The largest planet of the solar system, Jupiter, houses a lot of mysteries in it. New Leicester space research has revealed, for the first time, a complex 'tug-of-war' lights up aurorae in Jupiter's upper atmosphere, using a combination of data from NAS
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Moons may yield clues to what makes planets habitable, says study
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Tokyo [Japan], February 2 (ANI): Earth's moon is vital in making it function. It controls the length of the day and ocean tides, which affect the biological cycles of lifeforms on our planet. The moon also contributes to Earth's climate by stabilizing its spin axis, offering an ideal environ
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Earth has not one, but two Trojan asteroids now, reveals recent study
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Barcelona [Spain], February 2 (ANI): Trojan asteroid, also called Trojan planet, is any one of a number of asteroids that occupy a stable Lagrangian point in a planet's orbit around the Sun. Recent research by astronomers has discovered the second Earth Trojan asteroid, almost a decade after
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Even dying stars can give birth to planets, suggest astronomers
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Leuven [Belgium], February 1 (ANI): In any galaxy, planets are usually not much older than the stars around which they revolve. For example, the Sun was born 4.6 billion years ago, and not long after that, Earth came into the world. But KU Leuven astronomers have discovered that a completely
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Scientists make breakthrough discovery about extreme exoplanet's atmospher
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Bern [Switzerland], January 29 (ANI): The atmosphere of planets always accounts for an interesting study for astronomers to find out how life-supporting they are. The atmosphere of Earth is not a uniform envelope but consists of distinct layers that each have characteristic properties.
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James Webb telescope reaches final stable position 1mn miles from Earth: N
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Washington [US], January 25 (ANI): The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) successfully fired a planned rocket on-course correction to manoeuvre itself into a permanent stable position at a point between the Earth and the Sun, almost one million miles from its home planet, NASA said on Monday.
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Study provides new insights into seasons on a planet outside our solar sys
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Montreal [Canada], January 23 (ANI): A recent study provided new insights into what seasons looked like on a planet outside our solar system.
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Tug of Sun, Moon could be driving plate motions on 'imbalanced' Earth: Stu
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St. Louis (Missouri) [US], January 22 (ANI): A recent study proposed that the imbalanced forces and torques in the Earth-moon-sun system drive the circulation of the whole mantle.
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Consistent asteroid showers rock previous thinking on Mars craters: Study
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Perth [Australia], January 22 (ANI): A new research led by New Curtin University, confirmed that the frequency of asteroid collisions that formed impact craters on Mars, has been consistent over the past 600 million years.
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