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NASA confirms alien planet count hits 6,000, and the strangest worlds are still aheadNASA has confirmed the existence of 6,000 exoplanets. This milestone highlights the diversity of planetary systems. Scientists use transit ...
Why is NASA's new 'Penguin and Egg' galaxy image captivating astronomers worldwide?To mark the James Webb Space Telescope's second anniversary, NASA has unveiled a captivating image of two galaxies, nicknamed "the Penguin ...
NASA missions uncover cosmic enigmas: A celestial ‘Face’ and Skeleton NebulaAs the Halloween season draws near, NASA missions have revealed some captivatingly eerie celestial sights that appear almost custom-made fo...
NASA's Webb telescope spots its first Earth-like exoplanetWebb also revealed that the planet is a few hundred degrees warmer than Earth. If clouds are detected, it may lead the researchers to concl...
Efforts on to revive ancient stitched ship technology: Sanjeev SanyalSanjeev Sanyal, Member of the Economic Advisory Council of the Prime Minister, said efforts were on to revive the ancient 'stitched ship te...
China slams US after space station 'close encounters' with Musk's satellitesTiangong, China's new space station, had to manoeuvre to avoid colliding with one Starlink satellite in July and with another in October, a...
Big Discovery: Scientists find presence of water on sunlit surface of MoonData from the current study revealed that the Clavius Crater, one of the largest craters visible from the Earth, has water in concentration...
- NASA's Spitzer telescope completes 15 yrs in space
Washington, Aug 26 (IANS) NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, the youngest member of the "Great Observatory" programme, has completed 15 years ...
- NASA's next planet-hunting probe to launch on April 16
Washington, March 29 (IANS) NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, which aims to find alien worlds with capacity to harbour...
Google artificial intelligence helps NASA discover solar system like oursKepler-90i - a sizzling hot, rocky planet that orbits its star once every 14.4 days - was found using machine learning from Google to scour...
- Scientists find miniature version of our solar system with eight planets (Lead, Correcting headline)
Washington, Dec 15 (IANS) Scientists applying artificial intelligence to data from NASAs Kepler Space Telescope have discovered an eighth p...
- NASA spots eighth planet in solar system
Washington, Dec 15 (IANS) NASA has announced the discovery of an eight planet orbiting Kepler-90, a star comparable to the Sun located 2,54...
- Is the Nobel for discovery of gravitational waves premature? (Comment: Special to IANS)
On October 3, 2017, the Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to three American physicists "for decisive contribution to Laser Interferometry...
NASA's Kepler telescope spots over 200 new planet candidatesThe new data is the most comprehensive and detailed catalogue of candidate exoplanets, which are planets outside our solar system, from Kep...
- Water vapour plumes found on Jupiter's moon Europa, life next?
Washington, Sep 27 (IANS) In a surprise find, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have spotted water vapour plumes erupting off...
- Nasa finds more evidence for oceans on Jupiter's moon
Washington, Sep 27 (IANS) Nasa on Monday released further evidence to show that there may be oceans on Europa -- Jupiter's largest moon.
NASA's Kepler mission discovers over 1,200 new planetsAnalysis was performed on the Kepler space telescope's July 2015 planet candidate catalogue, which identified 4,302 potential planets.
New NASA telescope to help unlock secrets of universeBy blocking the light of the host star, the Coronagraph Instrument will enable detailed measurements of the chemical makeup of planetary at...
NASA's Kepler mission discovers 'super-Earth'The discovery was confirmed with measurements taken by the HARPS-North spectrograph of the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo in the Canary Islan...
- ‘I-T dept can’t tax research work’
The Bombay High Court, in a recent order, came down heavily on the Income-Tax Department, which unilaterally injected an application for ex...