First ever proof of star devouring planet
August 21st, 2012 - 4:22 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Aug 21 (IANS) Astronomers have come by the first ever evidence of an ageing star devouring its own planet especially after it expanded into a "red giant", the equivalent ... Read more...
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Astronomers discover new planet in planetary system similar to our own
December 9th, 2010 - 11:51 am ICT by ANI
London, Dec 9 (ANI): Astronomers have announced the discovery of a fourth giant planet outside our solar system, strengthening the similarities between a distant planetary system and our own.The astronomers say the ... Read more...
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Spanish woman ‘claims’ she owns the Sun
November 27th, 2010 - 2:15 pm ICT by ANI
New York, Nov 27 (ANI): A 49-year-old Spanish lady has claimed to be the owner of Sun.Angeles Duran from Spain's soggy region of Galicia said that she registered the star at a ... Read more...
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NASA reveals Saturn is on a cosmic dimmer switch
November 11th, 2010 - 4:20 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Nov 11 (ANI): NASA's Cassini spacecraft has found that Saturn emitted gradually less energy each year from 2005 to 2009, but its southern hemisphere consistently emitted more energy than its northern ... Read more...
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Magnetic anomalies shielding Moon’s surface from solar winds
September 24th, 2010 - 5:07 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Sept 24 (ANI): Scientists have discovered that magnetized regions called magnetic anomalies, mostly on the far side of the Moon, strongly deflected the solar wind, shielding the Moon's surface.This will help ... Read more...
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Spinning stars help scientists ‘weigh’ planets in our Solar System
August 24th, 2010 - 4:03 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Aug 24 (ANI): An international team of researchers has come up with a new way to weigh the planets in our Solar System, using radio signals from pulsars.Data from a ... Read more...
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UK scientists to study coolest life forms on Earth
August 7th, 2010 - 1:16 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Aug 7 (ANI): British scientists are planning to travel to one of the coldest places on Earth - an expedition that, they believe, will help them understand how life could exist ... Read more...
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Spitzer telescope finds distant planet that lacks methane
April 22nd, 2010 - 2:10 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Apr 22 (ANI): Using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, scientists have made a rather strange finding about a distant planet- it lacks methane, an ingredient common to many of the planets in ... Read more...
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Discovery of 9 new planets challenges planetary formation theory
April 14th, 2010 - 2:00 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Apr 14 (ANI): Astronomers have discovered nine new planets-a feat that challenges the reigning theory of the formation of planets.Two of the astronomers involved in the discoveries are based at the ... Read more...
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Astronomers discover new planet in Milky Way
March 19th, 2010 - 12:43 am ICT by IANS
London, March 18 (IANS) A planet discovered 1,500 light years from Earth is remarkably similar to those in our own solar system, according to astronomers.
The Jupiter-size world, called Corot-9b, is orbiting a ... Read more...
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Outer planets of our solar system may have oceans of diamonds
January 18th, 2010 - 2:32 pm ICT by ANI
Sydney, January 18 (ANI): Scientists have said that the outer planets of our solar system may have oceans of diamonds.According to ABC News, a new report has suggested that oceans of ... Read more...
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First earth-like planet seems to be volcanic wasteland
January 7th, 2010 - 4:46 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Jan 7 (IANS) The first Earth-like planet spotted outside our solar system seems to be a volcanic wasteland.
The rocky planet CoRoT-7b was discovered circling a star some 480 light years from ... Read more...
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Could Avatar’s moon Pandora be for real?
December 18th, 2009 - 2:54 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Dec 18 (IANS) "Avatar", the latest blockbuster from Hollywood, showcases a human-visit to the inhabited alien moon called Pandora.
Life-bearing moons like Pandora or the Star Wars forest moon of Endor ... Read more...
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Avatar’s life-bearing moon Pandora may exist in reality
December 18th, 2009 - 12:50 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, December 18 (ANI): Scientists have said that the alien life-bearing moon shown in the latest Hollywood flick 'Avatar', could exist in reality and could be detected and studied in the next ... Read more...
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Asteroids may have flocked together to build planets
August 18th, 2009 - 2:04 pm ICT by ANI
London, August 18 (ANI): New computer simulations have suggested that dense swarms of asteroids collapsed under their own gravity to make the building blocks of the planets in our solar system.The planets ... Read more...
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NASA’’s new mission to perform in-depth study of Jupiter
November 25th, 2008 - 2:26 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Nov 25 (ANI): NASA is preparing to launch a mission to the planet Jupiter, which will conduct an unprecedented, in-depth study of the planet, understanding its formation, evolution and structure. ... Read more...
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Large Hadron Colliders switch-on wont end the world
September 6th, 2008 - 1:15 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, September 6 (ANI): A new report has provided the most comprehensive evidence available to confirm that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)s switch-on, due on September 10, poses no threat to ... Read more...
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Our solar system may have 13 planets
August 13th, 2008 - 1:10 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, August 13 (ANI): A scientist has come out with a new definition for a planet, according to which, our solar system would have 13 planets in total.According to Mark Sykes, ... Read more...
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Hubble finds life forming organic molecule on extrasolar planet
March 20th, 2008 - 1:08 pm ICT by admin
Washington, March 20 (ANI): The Hubble Space Telescope has found the tell-tale signature of the molecule methane in the atmosphere of a Jupiter-sized planet HD 189733b, which can play a key ... Read more...
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Earth-like planet may be hidden in dusty disk dust around nearby star
February 9th, 2008 - 2:16 pm ICT by admin
Washington, Feb 9 (ANI): A recent survey by a team of Japanese astronomers might have found an Earth-like planet hidden in the dust around a nearby star.Using the Coronagraphic Imager with ... Read more...
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New unmanned moon mission may unlock planets mysteries
December 17th, 2007 - 4:32 pm ICT by admin
Washington, Dec 17 (ANI): NASA and MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) have announced a mission to map the moons internal structure, gravity and reconstruct its thermal history, also helping to unlock secrets ... Read more...
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Uranus and Neptune played flip-flop four billion years ago
December 12th, 2007 - 1:48 pm ICT by admin
Washington, Dec 12 (ANI): A recent study by scientists has said that Uranus and Neptune had switched places four billion years ago, indicating that the planets in our solar system werent always ... Read more...
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