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Explosive neutron star merger captured for the first time in millimeter li
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 3 (ANI): Scientists have recorded millimeter-wavelength light from a fiery explosion caused by the merger of a neutron star with another star. The team also confirmed this flash of light to be one of the most energetic short-duration gamma-ray bursts ever observed, le
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Modeling explains how Ceres, a dwarf planet, drives unexpected geologic ac
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 1 (ANI): For a long time, our view of Ceres was fuzzy, according to a geoscientist. A dwarf planet and the largest body found in the asteroid belt the region between Jupiter and Mars speckled with hundreds of thousands of asteroids, Ceres had no distinguishable surfac
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Scientists identify a possible source for Pluto's moon Charon's red cap
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 1 (ANI): Scientists combined data from NASA's New Horizons mission with novel laboratory experiments and exospheric modelling to reveal the likely composition of the red cap on Pluto's moon Charon and how it may have formed. This first-ever description of Charon's dyn
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Study: Harnessing the fusion power of the sun and stars
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 26 (ANI): PPPL researchers have found a way to build powerful magnets smaller than before, aiding the design and construction of machines that could help the world harness the power of the sun to create electricity without producing greenhouse gases that contribute to c
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New thrilling snaps of Jupiter taken by world's most powerful telescope
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 17 (ANI): James Webb Space Telescope's latest photographs demonstrate that it is not just capable of seeing cosmic objects that are far away from Earth. On Thursday, NASA unveiled Webb's first images of the solar system, which included Jupiter and whirling asteroids.
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Russia's nuclear-powered space tug to deliver interstellar station to plan
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], July 16 (ANI/Sputnik): The Zeus unmanned nuclear-powered space tug, which is currently under development in Russia, would be delivering an interstellar space station to the planets of the Solar System while cosmonauts would be flying to the station separately due to long fli
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Tata Power commissions India's largest floating solar power project
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 25 (ANI): Tata Power Solar Systems Limited (Tata Power Solar), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tata Power, said on Saturday it has commissioned India's largest floating solar power project in Kerala.
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Gaia space telescope rocks science of asteroids: Study
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 20 (ANI): According to a study by the University of Helsinki, the European Gaia space mission has produced an unprecedented amount of new, improved, and detailed data for almost two billion objects in the Milky Way galaxy and the surrounding cosmos. The Gaia Data Rel
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China on quest to find first-ever habitable planet near solar system
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Beijing [China], May 20 (ANI): Chinese scientists have proposed a space project named Closeby Habitable Exoplanet Survey (CHES) to survey the sky with the help of a space-borne telescope, in the quest for habitable terrestrial planets outside the solar system, said CGTN News.
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Ozone may be heating the planet more than we realize: Study
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
London [UK], April 7 (ANI): Ozone may be weakening one of the Earth's most important cooling mechanisms, making it a more significant greenhouse gas than previously thought, recent research has found.
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Scientists reveal Mercury has geomagnetic storms similar to those on Earth
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Anchorage (Alaska) [US], April 4 (ANI): A team of scientists has identified that Mercury, the solar system's smallest planet has geomagnetic storms similar to those on Earth.
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Meteorites that helped form earth may have formed in outer solar system, s
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], March 13 (ANI): A new study led by researchers at the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at Tokyo Institute of Technology suggested that these asteroidal materials might have formed very far out in the early Solar System then been transported into the inner Solar System by ch
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