‘TRAPPIST-1 b’: NASA’s James Webb Telescope discovers potential Earth 2.0Astronomers have revealed that TRAPPIST-1 b, a rocky exoplanet located 40 light-years away, may lack a significant atmosphere and features ...
LEGO Art: The Milky Way Galaxy Set: Here’s what we know so farLEGO has unveiled a new LEGO Art set, featuring a brick-built Milky Way galaxy. It will be released on May 18, 2024, priced at $199.99. The...
- 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...
Solar System 2.0 may have water-rich planets: StudySeven planets revolving around TRAPPIST-1, a star 40 light-years away from Earth, have piqued scientists' interest because of the possibili...
- TRAPPIST-1 planets may still have water, finds Hubble
London, Sep 1 (IANS) The outer Earth-sized planets orbiting the nearby dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 might still harbour substantial amounts of wat...
- TRAPPIST-1 could be twice as old as our solar system
Washington, Aug 12 (IANS) The intriguing ultra-cool dwarf star of the TRAPPIST-1 system of seven Earth-size worlds could be up to twice as ...
- Astronomers detect strange 'radio signals' coming from dwarf star
London, 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...
Cambridge University researchers discover smallest-ever starWith a size just a sliver larger than that of Saturn, the gravitational pull at its stellar surface is about 300 times stronger than what h...
- NASA says no pending announcement on alien life
Washington, June 27 (IANS) US space agency NASA said that it has no pending announcement regarding extraterrestrial life, following a wave ...
- NASA's Webb telescope to search for signs of alien life
Washington, June 16 (IANS) Finding signs of life on the earth-sized planets of the TRAPPIST-1 system and on Saturn's moon Enceladus are amo...
- Orbital details of TRAPPIST-1's outermost planet confirmed
Washington, May 23 (IANS) Using NASA's Kepler space telescope, scientists have confirmed that the outermost and least understood planet in ...
Living in outer space, the final frontierThe planet, discovered last August and rather unimaginatively named Proxima B — we would have named it Paanipuri, if we had a stake in its ...
- 'Iceball' planet about the same mass as Earth discovered
Washington, April 27 (IANS) Scientists have discovered an "extremely cold" new planet about the same mass as Earth, and the same distance f...
Maybe there are aliens next doorThat seems uncomfortably close given that our 'hood — the Milky Way — stretches some 100,000 light years, but such numbers are deceptive.
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...
- NASA finds 7 earth-like planets 400 light years away