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SOFIA finds hidden clues in Pluto's haze
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
California [USA], May 14 (ANI): Observations made with the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) -- a Boeing 747SP jetliner modified to carry a 106-inch diameter telescope -- has helped explain how Pluto's haze is formed and how the distant Sun affects the dwarf planet fro
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Study suggests terrestrial life unlikely to contaminate Mars
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 11 (ANI): A Southwest Research Institute scientist has modelled the atmosphere of Mars to help determine that salty pockets of water present on the Red Planet are likely not habitable by life as we know it on the Earth.
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Duplantis, Kendricks and Lavillenie set for Ultimate Garden Clash - Pole V
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Quai Antoine [Monaco], May 2 (ANI): As many parts of the world are under coronavirus enforced lockdown to contain the spread of the disease, but with the use of modern technology, some of the greatest athletes on the planet will compete against one another on Sunday, May 3 in the Ultimate Ga
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NASA's Perseverance Rover will look at Mars through these 'Eyes'
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], May 2 (ANI): When it launches this summer, NASA's Perseverance rover will have the most advanced pair of "eyes" ever sent to the Red Planet's surface -- its Mastcam-Z instrument packs a next-gen zoom capability that will help the mission make 3D imagery more easily.
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Alabama High School student names NASA's Mars helicopter
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 29 (ANI): A student from the Albama High School, Vaneeza Rupani named the spacecraft that will attempt NASA's first powered flight on another planet.
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Asteroid 1998 OR2 to safely fly past Earth this week
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 29 (ANI): A large near-Earth asteroid will safely pass by our planet on Wednesday morning, providing astronomers with an exceptional opportunity to study the 1.5-mile-wide (2-kilometer-wide) object in great detail.
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Atmospheric tidal waves maintain Venus' super-rotation
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 25 (ANI): Images from the Akatsuki spacecraft unveil what keeps Venus's atmosphere rotating much faster than the planet itself.
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Earth Day: PM Modi gives a shout out to all those working at the forefront
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 22 (ANI): On the occasion of World Earth Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged the people to work towards a cleaner, healthier and more prosperous planet.
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Covid - 19: The Economy, where to?
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 21 (ANI): What kind of world will emerge post Covid-19? Never in the history of mankind has our planet suffered such pain. No country has been spared and over four billion people are under lockdown. Will it be business as usual once Covid-19 disappers and the man ha
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Astronomers find a planet that never was
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Tucson [Arizona], April 21 (ANI): Astronomers have found out that what was thought to be a planet beyond our solar system has now seemingly vanished from sight, suggesting that what was heralded as one of the first exoplanets to ever be discovered with direct imaging likely never existed.
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Hubble probes alien comet's chemical makeup
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 20 (ANI): Interstellar comet 2I/Borisov is providing a glimpse of another star system's planetary building blocks, using new observations from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
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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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