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NASA's new Mars Rover will use x-rays to hunt fossils
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 23 (ANI): NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover has a challenging road ahead: after having to make it through the harrowing entry, descent, and landing phase of the mission on February 18, 2021, it will begin searching for traces of microscopic life from billions of
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NASA announces Artemis Plan to land first woman, next man on moon in 2024
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [USA], September 22 (ANI): NASA on Monday (local time) shared an update to its Artemis program, including the latest Phase 1 plan to land the first woman and the next man on the surface of the Moon in 2024.
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Earth-sized 'Pi planet' discovered by astronomers at MIT
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Cambridge [UK], September 22 (ANI): Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), along with others, have discovered an earth-sized "Pi Planet" that revolves around its star every 3.14 days.
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How protoplanetary rings form around young stars
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], September 16 (ANI): Four-hundred fifty light-years from Earth, a young star is glowing at the center of a system of concentric rings made from gas and dust, and it is producing planets, one for each gap in the ring.
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Indian Ambassador to Madagascar and Comoros Abhay K pens poem paying homag
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 15 (ANI): Abhay K, Ambassador of India to Madagascar and Comoros penned down an anthem to the planet Venus calling it his 'Venus Anthem', which he wrote in May this year.
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Possible marker of life spotted on Venus
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 14 (ANI): A rare molecule -- phosphine -- has been detected in the atmosphere of Venus, an international team of astronomers announced today leading to speculation of life on Earth's nearest planetary neighbour.
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Jupiter's moons could be warming each other
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 11 (ANI): Jupiter's moons are hot. Well, hotter than they should be, for being so far from the Sun. In a process called tidal heating, gravitational tugs from Jupiter's moons and the planet itself stretch and squish the moons enough to warm them. As a result, some
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50 new planets confirmed in machine-learning first
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], August 26 (ANI): Fifty potential planets have had their existence confirmed by a new machine learning algorithm developed by the University of Warwick scientists.
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Follow the Perseverance Rover in real-time on its way to Mars
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 22 (ANI): The last time we saw NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission was on July 30, 2020, as it disappeared into the black of deep space on a trajectory for Mars. But with NASA's Eyes on the Solar System, you can follow in real-time as humanity's most sophistic
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Tiny asteroid buzzes by Earth - the closest flyby on record
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], August 19 (ANI): Near-Earth asteroids, or NEAs, pass by our home planet all the time. But an SUV-size asteroid set the record this past weekend for coming closer to Earth than any other known NEA: It passed 1,830 miles (2,950 kilometres) above the southern Indian Ocean
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Astronomers discover 100 'cool worlds' near Sun
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Hawaii [US], August 18 (ANI): Astronomers and a team of data-sleuthing volunteers participating in Backyard Worlds: Planet 9, a citizen science project, have discovered roughly 100 cool worlds near the Sun -- objects more massive than planets but lighter than stars, known as brown dwarfs.
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Lewandowski is extraordinary but Messi from another planet: Arturo Vidal
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Lisbon [Portugal], Aug 14 (ANI): Ahead of the Champions League quarter-final clash against Bayern Munich, Barcelona's Arturo Vidal said that comparison between opponents' Robert Lewandowski and Lionel Messi is difficult as his teammate is from 'another planet'.
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