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Scientists find new exoplanet-star pair having resemblance to Sun-Earth sy
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 4 (ANI): The star Kepler-160 and its companion KOI-456.04 are more reminiscent of the Sun-Earth system than any previously known exoplanet-star pair, according to a team of scientists led by the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Gottingen, Ge
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ESPRESSO confirms presence of an Earth around the nearest star
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], May 28 (ANI): The existence of a planet the size of Earth around the closest star in the solar system, Proxima Centauri, has been confirmed by an international team of scientists including researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE).
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Astronomers create cloud atlas for hot, Jupiter-like exoplanets
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Washington D.C. [USA], May 27 (ANI): Giant planets in our solar system and circling other stars have exotic clouds unlike anything on Earth, and the gas giants orbiting close to their stars -- so-called hot Jupiters -- boast the most extreme.
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Galactic crash may have triggered Solar System formation
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C.[USA], May 25 (ANI): The formation of the Sun, the Solar System and the subsequent emergence of life on Earth may be a consequence of a collision between our galaxy, the Milky Way, and a smaller galaxy called Sagittarius, discovered in the 1990s to be orbiting our galactic hom
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Jupiter's moon Europa: New evidence of watery plumes
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Gottingen [Germany], May 13 (ANI): A group of scientists, including researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Germany have found new evidence of the presence of a plume of water near Jupiter's moon Europa.
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Astronomers could spot life signs orbiting long-dead stars
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New York [USA], April 30 (ANI): The next generation of powerful Earth- and space-based telescopes will be able to hunt distant solar systems for evidence of life on Earth-like exoplanets -- particularly those that chaperone burned-out stars known as white dwarfs.
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Interstellar asteroids found hiding in plain sight
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Washington D.C. [USA], April 23 (ANI): A new study has identified the first known permanent population of asteroids originating from outside our Solar System. The objects are believed to have been captured from other stars billions of years ago and have been orbiting our Sun in disguise ever
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Birth of 'Snowman' at edge of solar system
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Haifa [Israel], April 23 (ANI): New research by a team of astronomers shed new light on the formation of Kuiper Belt objects, asteroid-like objects at the edge of the solar system, and for understanding the early stages of the solar system's formation.
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Astronomers find a planet that never was
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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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In a first, NASA measures wind speed on a brown dwarf
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 10 (ANI): For the first time, scientists have directly measured wind speed on a brown dwarf, an object larger than Jupiter (the largest planet in our solar system) but not quite massive enough to become a star. To achieve the finding, they used a new method that
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Tata Power Solar bags 300 MW project from NTPC
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], April 7 (ANI): Tata Power Solar Systems said on Tuesday it has got a letter of award to build 300 megawatt plant for state-owned utility major NTPC at an all-inclusive price of Rs 1,730 crore.
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NASA: SunRISE Mission to study causes of giant solar particle storms
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Washington D.C. [USA], Mar 31 (ANI): NASA has selected a new mission to study how the Sun generates and releases giant space weather storms -- known as solar particle storms -- into planetary space. The information not only improves understanding of how our solar system works, but it ultimat
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