Habitable planet found
February 3rd, 2012 - 1:08 am ICT by IANS
Washington, Feb 2 (IANS) A potentially habitable planet orbiting a nearby star has been discovered by scientists.With an orbital period of about 28 days and a minimum mass 4.5 times ... Read more...
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NASA’s WISE mission discovers ‘horseshoe’ asteroid
April 9th, 2011 - 11:45 am ICT by ANI
Washington, April 09 (ANI): An asteroid, which has recently been discovered by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), is a bit different from most near-Earth asteroids (NEAs).The orbit of the new object, ... Read more...
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NASA’s Messenger spacecraft begins historic orbit around mercury
March 18th, 2011 - 9:37 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Mar 18(ANI): A NASA spacecraft has successfully entered Mercury's orbit, where it will spend a year helping scientists better understand the planet closest to the sun.Messenger's main thruster fired for about ... Read more...
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HD 209458b: Planet found with a comet like tail
July 19th, 2010 - 7:49 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Washington DC, July 19 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Scientists have detected a planet that orbits so close around its star, that its atmosphere is blasted away, thus forming a comet like tail when viewed ... Read more...
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Found: Second smallest planet outside solar system
January 14th, 2010 - 3:16 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Jan 14 (IANS) Astronomers have detected an extrasolar planet with a mass just four times that of Earth.
The planet, which orbits its parent star HD156668 about once every four days, ... Read more...
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NASA’s Kepler space telescope detects atmosphere of known giant gas planet
August 10th, 2009 - 2:48 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, August 10 (ANI): NASA's new exoplanet-hunting Kepler space telescope has detected the atmosphere of a known giant gas planet.The find is based on a relatively short 10 days of test data ... Read more...
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Scientists announce discovery of lightest exoplanet found so far
April 22nd, 2009 - 2:17 pm ICT by ANI
Munich, April 22 (ANI): Scientists have announced the discovery of the lightest exoplanet found so far, which is only about twice the mass of our Earth.The planet, "e", lies in the ... Read more...
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