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Atacama’s pristine skies face light pollution risks despite cancellation of nearby energy projectChile's Atacama Desert, a prime spot for stargazing, faces ongoing threats to its clear night skies. A proposed energy project near a major...- How Close Is the Nearest Earth-Like Planet, Really?Astronomers are actively searching for Earth-like planets, with thousands of exoplanets now confirmed. While Proxima Centauri b is the clos...
- How Close Is the Nearest Potentially Habitable Exoplanet?Astronomers have identified Proxima Centauri b, a rocky planet just over four light-years away, as the closest potentially habitable exopla...
- Google's former CEO Eric Schmidt wants to build a cosmic search engineEric Schmidt, a former CEO of Google, and his wife Wendy are funding four advanced telescopes, including one for space. These observatories...
- 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 ...
- Is there a Saturn-sized world hiding beside our nearest star system? James Webb spots a new world next doorAstronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope believe they may have found a Saturn-sized planet orbiting Alpha Centauri A, one of the cl...
- Is Europa, Jupiter's ocean moon, the final haven for life once the sun dies? Here's what a recent study showsIn approximately 4.5 billion years, as the sun transforms into a red giant and engulfs Earth, Jupiter's moon Europa may offer a temporary r...
- Scientists stumble upon a strange ‘Super-Earth’; Here's what makes it so unusualScientists from Oxford University have confirmed the discovery of HD 20794 d, a “super-Earth” exoplanet located 20 light-years away, which ...
- Sun may swallow Mercury, Venus & Earth in the next 5 bn yearsStars come in many varieties, including simmering dwarfs and brilliant hypergiants.
- China plans world's 1st nearby habitable planet search with space telescopeThe CHES will observe about 100 Sun-like stars 32 light-years away on a long-term survey, and will hopefully discover roughly 50 Earth-like...
- All hail the Mediterranean diet: Spain declared world's healthiest nationJapan was the healthiest Asian nation.
- Alpha Centauri system may host 'overlooked' Earth-like planetsNew York, Dec 19 (IANS) Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to the Earth, may be home to some small, Earth-like planets which have been...
- Astrosat, Chandra and Hubble jointly detect massive cosmic explosionMumbai, July 19 (IANS) Three space-based observatories Astrosat, Chandra, Hubble Space Telescope and a ground-based observatory HARPS have ...
- Astronomers detect strange 'radio signals' coming from dwarf starLondon, July 17 (IANS) To the delight of those trying to find life beyond our solar system, a team of astronomers has claimed to have picke...
- New exoplanet may be best place to look for alien lifeLondon, April 20 (IANS) A rocky exoplanet orbiting in the habitable zone of a red dwarf star 40 light-years from the Earth may be the best ...
- Newly found super-Earth may be best bet to hunt for alien lifeThe orbit is seen almost edge-on from Earth and as the exoplanet passes in front of the star once per orbit it blocks a little of its light...
- Earth-sized 'Tatooine' planets may be habitable: StudyIn a particular range of distances from two sun-like host stars, a planet covered in water would remain habitable and retain its water for ...
- Exoplanet discovery brings 'Earth 2.0' closer to realityThe US space agency's Spitzer Space Telescope found the first known system of seven Earth-sized planets around a single star.
- For Delhiites, Milky Way is a mythical objectGazing at the stars isn’t something you can do anymore as city lights blank out the night sky. But the LED revolution may help reverse ligh...
- Most Earth-like planets yet to be bornThe bulk of those planets - 92 per cent - are yet to be born, according to the assessment of data collected by NASA's Hubble Space Telescop...
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