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Two new exoplanets covered with water found by explorersExoplanet explorers have discovered new planets, Kepler-138c and d, covered with water.
- 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 ...
- New NASA app clicks selfies in 'out of the world' locations
Washington, Aug 23 (IANS) NASA has rolled out a new app that allows you to take a picture of yourself in a virtual spacesuit, posing in fro...
First stars formed 250 million years after Big Bang: StudyFor such a young galaxy, known as MACS1149-JD1, to contain detectable traces of oxygen, it must have begun forging stars even earlier - a s...
- Astronomers detect water in Saturn-sized exoplanet's atmosphere
Washington, March 2 (IANS) Astronomers have detected a large amount of water in the atmosphere of a hot, Saturn-mass exoplanet some 700 lig...
Farthest known galaxy in the universe discovered: NASAThough a few other primitive galaxies have been seen at this early epoch, they have essentially all looked like red dots given their small ...
- 'Hot Jupiter' with deadly stratosphere stuns scientists
Washington, Nov 30 (IANS) A NASA-led team of scientists has determined that WASP-18b, a "hot Jupiter" located 325 light-years from Earth, h...
- Water signature found in Neptune-sized planet's atmosphere
Washington, May 12 (IANS) Combining observations from NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, researchers have detected strong water si...
- NASA's next generation space telescope plan takes a pause
Washington, April 28 (IANS) NASA said it is initiating an independent external review to know how long it will take and how much it will co...
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.
Newly found planets tidally locked to star, have short orbitsThree of these planets are firmly located in the habitable zone, the area around the parent star where a rocky planet is most likely to hav...
Galaxy 13.4 billion years away breaks cosmic distance recordThe combination of Hubble's and Spitzer's imaging shows that GN-z11 is 25 times smaller than the Milky Way and has just one per cent of our...
Astronomers spot most massive galaxy cluster everThe cluster, named "IDCS 1426", is the most massive cluster of galaxies yet discovered in the first four billion years after the Big Bang.
NASA discovers five 'superstars' in other galaxiesA new study using archival data from NASA's Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes has found five similar objects in other galaxies for the fi...
Missing water mystery of exoplanets solved"The atmosphere leaves its unique fingerprint on the starlight, which we can study when the light reaches us," said Hannah Wakeford, from t...
Galaxy that spits out 800 new stars every year discoveredThe discovery is the first to show that gigantic galaxies at the centre of massive clusters can grow significantly by feeding off gas stole...
Astronomers discover most distant galaxy everThe exceptionally luminous galaxy, EGS-zs8-1, was originally identified based on its particular colours in images from NASA's Hubble and Sp...