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  Last decade was the hottest, courtesy Global Warming

  Science | January 15, 2020 23:36 IST

  ​The decade that just ended was by far the hottest ever measured on Earth, capped off by the second-warmest year on record, two U.S. agencies reported Wednesday. And scientists said they see no end to the way man-made climate change keeps shattering records.

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  17-year-old intern helps NASA find planet in habitable zone

  Science | January 12, 2020 18:23 IST

  Just three days into his internship, little did 17-year-old Wolf Cukier realise that he is going to make history -- in helping NASA discover its first Earth-size planet resting in its star's habitable-zone -- the way our Earth rests in its Goldilocks zone.

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  Jupiter acting as a slingshot, flinging dangerous objects towards Earth: study

  Science | January 10, 2020 11:08 IST

  A study has found that the largest planet in our solar system - Jupiter - is slingshooting objectes into the inner solar system that could impact the Earth. It was earlier believed that Jupiter protects Earth from asteroids but new theory has suggested that it may be doing more harm.

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  Aliens living with us on Earth?

  Science | January 08, 2020 18:54 IST

  A British astronaut has claimed that aliens exist and it was possible they were already on Earth. Helen Sharman, the first British astronaut to go space, said: "Aliens exist, there are no two ways about it. There are so many billions of stars out there in the universe that there must be all sorts of different forms of life."  

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  Another Earth? NASA's planet hunter finds Earth-size world in 'Habitable Zone'

  Science | January 07, 2020 20:02 IST

  NASA said its planet hunter satellite TESS had discovered its first Earth-size planet in its star’s habitable zone of its star. Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) discovered its first Earth-size planet in its star’s habitable zone, the range of distances where conditions may be just right to allow the presence of liquid water on the surface.

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  Wolf moon eclipse on January 10: Where to watch, timing of the first lunar eclipse of 2020

  Science | January 07, 2020 7:57 IST

  Wolf moon eclipse: January 10 (Friday) is going to be a wolf moon eclipse night as we approach towards one of the four lunar eclipses in 2020. It is going to be a penumbral (partial) lunar eclipse when the earth will come between Sun and Moon.

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  Moon had its own magnetic field billion years ago, twice as strong as the Earth

  Science | January 02, 2020 19:36 IST

  We all know that the Earth has its own magnetic field. But have we heard the same for the moon? Not until now. Scientists believe that a lunar magnetic field existed a billion years ago and was twice as strong as the earth's field today.

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  Earth's Magnetic Field racing towards Siberia at unprecedented speed, scientists baffled

  Science | December 21, 2019 8:00 IST

  The Earth's magnetic North Pole has been racing towards Siberia at an increasing pace, according to a Science Alert report. For the first time in its recorded history, the magnetic north pole even crossed the Greenwich meridian, the invisible line that determines time zones.

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  Despite abundant water, this place on Earth has no life

  Science | November 23, 2019 17:42 IST

  The infernal landscape of Dallol, located in the Ethiopian depression of Danakil, extends over a volcanic crater full of salt, where toxic gases emanate and water boils in the midst of intense hydrothermal activity.

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  Earth's most uninhabitable place found: Study

  World | November 25, 2019 23:57 IST

  The study, published in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution, revealed that any form of microbial life was absent in the hot, saline, hyperacid ponds of the Dallol geothermal field in Ethiopia.

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  'Brightest yet gamma ray emission in space observed'

  Science | November 21, 2019 13:42 IST

  The researchers, including those from George Washington University in the US, detected a burst on January 14 labeled GRB 190114C which led to a collaborative effort to observe the radiation coming from the source using more than 20 observatories and instruments around the world.

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  In rare sky show, Mercury to pass through Sun today

  Science | November 11, 2019 11:15 IST

  A transit of Mercury across the Sun takes place when the planet Mercury passes directly (transits) between the Sun and a superior planet, becoming visible against (and hence obscuring a small portion of) the solar disk. Transits of Mercury occur in May or November.

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  Mars once had salt lakes similar to those on Earth: Study

  Science | October 19, 2019 11:59 IST

  The researchers said that the salt ponds on Mars are similar to some found on the Earth such as those in a region called Altiplano near the Bolivia-Peru border.

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  Largest of 11 ‘near-Earth’ asteroids to fly past our planet today

  Science | October 10, 2019 8:04 IST

  According to the European Space Agency (ESA), of the 600,000 known asteroids in our solar system, some 20,000 are NEOs and 800 are on the agency’s ‘risk list’ for observation.

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  Deadly fungi causing speech defects, brain shrink found in Australia

  Science | October 03, 2019 13:46 IST

  Experts believe that the fungi's appearance in Australia is most likely natural as there have also been unconfirmed reports of it growing in the nearby islands of Papua New Guinea and Indonesia.

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  Asteroids to enter our atmosphere, mid air explosion to cause damage?

  Science | October 01, 2019 18:45 IST

  NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) has set its eyes on three asteroids who are likely to intersect Earth's orbit. All of these asteroids are hurtling through space towards the earth at a breathtaking speed of thousands of miles per hour.

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  Huge asteroid eyeing Earth could kill millions of people, NASA warns

  Science | September 24, 2019 14:21 IST

  Based on a report, a NASA video showcased all known asteroids that passed through our solar system from Jan. 1, 1999, to Jan. 31, 2018 and it showed just how many near-Earth collisions occurred during the last two decades.

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  Collision between asteroids sparked Earth's biodiversity: Study

  Science | September 19, 2019 14:48 IST

  Researchers have found that a collision between rocks in space around 470 million years ago greatly influenced the diversity of life on the Earth. The study, published in the journal Science Reports, found that a 150 km asteroid between Jupiter and Mars was crushed 470 million years ago, and the dust spread throughout the inner solar system consisting of the first four planets.

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  Giant asteroids to pass by earth over weekend, slim chances of impact: NASA

  Science | September 14, 2019 17:26 IST

  Asteroids are serious business. Last time a big one hit the earth, it wiped off dinosaurs. Two such astronomical giants are going to be in earth's neighbourhood this weekend. But NASA has said that Asteroid 2000 QW7 & Asteroid 2010 C01 are unlikely to hit earth and are expected to just pass by.

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  Water discovered for the first time on super-Earth exoplanet

  Science | September 12, 2019 16:24 IST

  K2-18b, which is eight times the mass of Earth, is now the only exoplanet known to have both water and temperatures that could be potentially habitable, according to the study published in the journal Nature Astronomy.