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A simple astronomy program led two U.S. high school students to help discover four exoplanetsIn an inspiring display of youthful ingenuity, two American high school students have teamed up to publish a groundbreaking scientific pape...- Scientists hunt for origins of the mysterious 'sun goddess' particleScientists have new insights into the Amaterasu particle, one of the strongest ever detected. Initial observations suggested it came from a...
- Saturn moon number jumps to 274 with discovery of 128 new potato-shape moons — but now astronomers have a unique problem to solveScientists have discovered over 100 new moons orbiting Saturn, raising its total to 274. These small rocky moons likely resulted from cosmi...
- NASA’s Chandra X-ray observatory telescope identifies galaxy’s black hole delivery system, dubbed NikhuliNASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope have identified a galaxy's black hole delivery system named 'Nikhuli,' after a ...
- China, France launch satellite to better understand the universeThe 930-kilogram satellite carrying four instruments -- two French, two Chinese -- took off around 3:00 pm (0700 GMT) aboard a Chinese Long...
- Webb Space Telescope spots early galaxies hidden from HubbleAstronomers said on Thursday that if the results are verified, this newly-discovered throng of stars would beat the most distant galaxy ide...
- Professor Somak Raychaudhury appointed Vice-Chancellor of Ashoka UniversityPramath Raj Sinha, Chairman, Board of Trustees, said “Professor Raychaudhury brings stellar academic stature and strong administrative expe...
- Scientists find huge black hole in Earth's backyardThe other stellar-mass black holes were revealed by their energising interactions with a companion star, despite the fact that there are pr...
- Stellar system with 3 super Earths discoveredNew York, March 5 (IANS) Astronomers have discovered three small super-Earth planets orbiting the star which lies at a relatively close dis...
- Gravitational waves used to measure age of universeA team of 1,314 scientists from around the world contributed to the detection of gravitational waves from a merging pair of binary neutron ...
- Freon found around infant star deals blow to search for aliensNew York, Oct 3 (IANS) In a big blow to finding signs of life on other planets, astronomers have detected faint molecular fingerprint of me...
- Proxima b unlikely to be habitable: NASAWashington, Aug 1 (IANS) Dampening hopes of finding alien life on the closest exoplanet ever discovered, a new NASA study says that the atm...
- Meet the Indian astrophysicists who discovered the Saraswati SuperclusterAmong the major challenges in working in this field in India is the lack of large-scale experimental facilities for scientists.
- Infosys Foundation announces Rs6.5 crore endowment to the Inter-University Center of Astronomy and AstrophysicsThe IUCAA is an autonomous institution set up by the UGC to promote the nucleation and growth of active groups in astronomy and astrophysic...
- NASA telescope spots sizzling gamma-ray binary in spaceWashington, Sep 30 (IANS) Using data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, scientists have found the first gamma-ray binary in anoth...
- Scientists discover 5 billion light-years away galaxyThe galaxy was discovered in radio emission traveling to earth using the Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder telescope (ASKAP).
- 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...
- Pluto-sized objects swarming around Sun-like starThe star HD 107146 is located approximately 90 light-years from Earth in the direction of the constellation Coma Berenices. It is approxima...
- After being demoted to a dwarf planet in 2006, Pluto might get its status backThe celestial body that we in this paper never stopped caring for and loving is the planet that was so rudely downgraded to ‘dwarf planet’ ...
- New experiment 'Holometer' to test the nature of our universeThe information about everything in our universe could actually be encoded in tiny packets in two dimensions, researchers said.
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