Scientists have discovered a new world right round the corner from Earth. A new ‘super Earth’ planet was found with a mass around 5.4 times that of the Earth, orbiting a very bright star near
Astronomers have discovered a bizarre ‘alien’ solar system that has planets orbiting its star so tightly that one of them has a year as along as a day on planet Earth.
Washington DC: If there had been just tiny evolutionary changes, life could have been existed on Venus and not Earth, a new study has claimed. According to a a hypothesis by Rice University scientists, these
Washington: Fresh clues obtained by NASA’s New Horizons reveal that dwarf planet Pluto in the Kuiper belt, which is believed to have once had a liquid ocean on its surface, may still have liquid water
Washington: Astronomers have discovered the first aurora that is 10,000 times more powerful than any previously seen beyond the solar system.The aurora - similar to the famous "Northern Lights" on Earth - was found not
Cape Canaveral, Fla. (AP): Pluto is hazier than scientists expected and appears to be covered with flowing ice.The team responsible for the New Horizons flyby of Pluto last week released new pictures Friday of the
Washington: In what may rewrite science books soon, NASA's New Horizons mission - launched in 2006 and has travelled over 4.8 billion km so far at the speed of 45,000 km per hour - fly past
Toronto: Imagine discussing and comparing weather reports of alien planets hundreds to thousands of light years away with our own. This is quite probable as an international team of astrophysicists have prepared weather forecasts for
New Delhi: An international team of astronomers have discovered a runaway star wandered into our solar system's backyard about 70000 years ago. The findings are published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.This runaway star, nick-named "Scholz's
Washington: Two recent studies by NASA with the help of Hubble Space Telescope has detected the presence of water in the atmospheres of five planets beyond our solar system.The two research teams used Hubble's Wide
New Delhi: Solar System was formed around 4.6 billion years ago from the gravitational collapse of a giant molecular cloud. The overall structure of the charted regions of the Solar System consists of the Sun,
Imagine that you're an astronaut who's been sent to establish a colony on Mars, where you spot something really incredible, and want to show it to your partners on earth. You might be able to
New Delhi, Jan 1 : The Earth will be closest to the Sun tomorrow at 10:10 am IST at a distance of 147 million kilometres, Planetary Society of India General Secretary N Sri Raghunandan Kumar
New York, Dec 21: Scientists have found two Earth-sized planets orbiting a star outside the solar system, an encouraging sign for prospects of finding life elsewhere. The discovery shows that such planets exist and that
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