Giant ocean found on Saturn’s moon
June 30th, 2012 - 8:37 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, June 30 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Around 100 km beneath the rocky crust on Saturn's largest moon Titan is an ocean of water spanning the entirety of the celestial body, scientists ... Read more...
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Madhuri’s fans name a star after her
June 17th, 2012 - 5:30 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, June 17 (IANS) Bollywood diva Madhuri Dixit now has a star named after her shinning in sky. This was made possible by a group of the "Dhak Dhak" girl's ... Read more...
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Moon comes closest to Earth (Lead)
May 6th, 2012 - 11:50 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 6 (IANS) As the clock struck 9.05 p.m., space enthusiasts were out to catch the glimpse of the year's biggest and brightest moon, as the celestial body ... Read more...
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NASA Announces Existence Of An Ancient Galaxy
January 27th, 2011 - 8:11 pm ICT by GD
By Madhuri Dey
Jan 27, (THAINDIAN NEWS) Scientists at NASA have reported the existence of a galaxy that seems to have formed less than 500 million years after the formation of the universe. ... Read more...
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Japanese scientists confirm space probe captured asteroid dust
November 17th, 2010 - 1:28 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Nov 17 (ANI): Japanese scientists, who announced in July that they had found something inside Hayabusa's 40cm-wide sample return capsule, have now concluded that the trouble-plagued Hayabusa did return asteroid dust.In ... Read more...
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NASA spacecraft takes look at comet from closest
November 5th, 2010 - 5:12 pm ICT by IANS
London, Nov 5 (IANS) NASA's Deep Impact craft flew within 435 miles (700 km) of comet Hartley 2 -- the closest ever any man-made object got to such a celestial body.
The ... Read more...
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Comet Hartley 2 Will Be Visible From The Northern Horizon
October 20th, 2010 - 8:35 pm ICT by GD
By Meena Kar
Oct 20, (THAINDIAN NEWS) Discovered in 1986 by Australian astronomer Malcolm Hartley, comet Hartley 2 will make its closest appearance towards the earth today in the midnight. Astronomers have said ... Read more...
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China to explore deep space
October 2nd, 2010 - 1:44 pm ICT by IANS
Beijing, Oct 2 (IANS) China will set up its own deep space communication network in three to five years which will help in the exploration of the solar system, a top scientist ... Read more...
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NASA Discovers Two New Planets In Milky Way
August 27th, 2010 - 7:32 pm ICT by GD
By Gina Gomez
Aug 27, (THAINDIAN NEWS) In what is being considered as one of the most amazing scientific discoveries, the NASA officials have announced that NASA'a Kepler telescope, launched from Cape Canaveral ... Read more...
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Indian American teen wins 2010 US Spelling Bee contest
June 5th, 2010 - 2:22 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, June 5 (ANI): Indian American teen Anamika Veeramani has been crowned champion of the 2010 Scripps National Spelling Bee here. She won the contest on Friday night.A 14-year-old from North Royalton, ... Read more...
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Images of comet crashing into sun captured
May 25th, 2010 - 4:29 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, May 25 (IANS) Solar physicists have for the first time captured images of the collision of a comet with the sun.
This comet apparently survived the heat of the corona and disappeared ... Read more...
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Lost Soviet rover on moon traced
March 17th, 2010 - 10:33 am ICT by IANS
Toronto, March 17 (IANS) In an amazing breakthrough, a Canadian researcher has located the Soviet-era rover Lunokhod-2 stuck on the moon 37 years ago.
Phil Stooke, a professor at departments of physics & ... Read more...
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NASA chooses 3 finalists for future space mission to Venus, an asteroid, or the moon
December 30th, 2009 - 3:33 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, December 30 (ANI): NASA has selected three proposals as final candidates for the agency's next space venture to another celestial body in our solar system, namely, Venus, an asteroid, or the ... Read more...
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Astronomers detect coldest ever companion of a Sun-like star
December 8th, 2009 - 3:31 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, December 8 (ANI): Astronomers at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have discovered and directly imaged a faint celestial body that orbits the star GJ 758, which at a temperature of ... Read more...
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Titan’s surface similar to that of Earth
August 7th, 2009 - 6:13 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, August 7 (ANI): A new research indicates that Saturn's haze-enshrouded moon Titan turns out to have much in common with Earth in the way that weather and geology shape its terrain.Wind, ... Read more...
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NASA invites public to choose Hubbles next discovery
January 29th, 2009 - 12:45 pm ICT by ANI
Cape Canaveral (California, US), Jan.29 (ANI): The National Aeronautic and Space Agency (NASA) has invited the public to vote for one of six candidate astronomy-related objects for the Hubble Telescope to ... Read more...
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Chandrayaan camera detects X-ray signal from moon
January 23rd, 2009 - 9:05 pm ICT by IANS
Bangalore, Jan 23 (IANS) The sophisticated camera on board India's first lunar mission Chandrayaan-1 detected the first X-ray signal from the moon, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said here Friday."The first ... Read more...
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English astronomer beat Galileo in viewing moon through a telescope, experts claim
January 14th, 2009 - 2:09 pm ICT by ANI
London, Jan 14 (ANI): 400-year-old set of moon maps have led experts to claim that their creator - Thomas Harriot - beat Galileo to become the first man to view the ... Read more...
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In Goa? Don’t forget to see the stars
January 9th, 2009 - 12:25 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, Jan 9 (IANS) It started in a small cubbyhole in the dusty attic of a shabby, paint-peeling building housing government offices. But a couple of decades later, the Association of Friends ... Read more...
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India reaches destination moon
November 14th, 2008 - 11:03 pm ICT by IANS
Bangalore, Nov 14 (IANS) India Friday became the fourth country on Earth to land a probe on the moon. "We have given moon to India," a beaming and excited chief of Indian ... Read more...
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W. Bengal teen bags the first position in NASA-sponsored contest
October 11th, 2008 - 8:39 pm ICT by ANI
Kolkata, Oct.11 (ANI): A West Bengal teenager has won the Space Settlement Design Contest sponsored by the NASA Ames Research Centre.Ayon Pal of Kolkata has successfully made a blueprint for living ... Read more...
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Now, a speedometer for determining the velocities of stars
September 10th, 2008 - 4:28 pm ICT by ANI
Berlin, September 10 (ANI): An international team of scientists have developed a new instrument that can be called as a speedometer for determining the velocities of stars and other celestial bodies, ... Read more...
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Mars message mocks many
August 27th, 2008 - 3:31 pm ICT by IANS
Ahmedabad, Aug 27 (IANS) It was an e-mail message that promised a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to gaze Tuesday night at the unique celestial event of Mars coming closest to Earth in 5,000 years. ... Read more...
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ESAs Rosetta starts tracking asteroid Steins
August 5th, 2008 - 2:55 pm ICT by ANI
Paris, August 5 (ANI): ESAs (European Space Agencys) Rosetta spacecraft has started using its cameras to visually track asteroid Steins and eventually determine its orbit with more accuracy.Rosetta started the optical ... Read more...
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