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NASA mission spots 2nd Earth-size world within ‘habitable zone’
Washington: NASA mission has discovered a second Earth-sized, rocky planet within the habitable zone of its star — the range of distances where liquid water could occur on a planet’s surface. Using…
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World comes together to land historic pact, win for planet: Canadian Minister
Montreal: In Montreal at the fifth Conference of the Parties (COP15) to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, the world has come together to land a historic deal to protect nature and…
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Don’t miss Jupiter’s closest date with Earth in 59 years
Washington: Jupiter was set to make its closest approach to Earth in 59 years on Monday and stargazers were waiting for an excellent view when the giant gas planet reaches “opposition”. The…
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Don’t miss Jupiter’s closest date with Earth in 70 years on Sep 26
Washington: Jupiter is set to make its closest approach to Earth in the last 70 years and on September 26, stargazers can expect an excellent view when the giant planet reaches opposition.…
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Nickelodeon and UN in India vouch for sustainable planet
New Delhi: On the eve of the World Environment Day (June 5), Nickelodeon, a kids’ entertainment space major, has joined forces with the United Nations (UN) in India for a flagship campaign in…
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Global wellbeing is at risk: Guterres warns at Stockholm+50
Stockholm: Global wellbeing is at risk and it’s in large part because “we haven’t kept our promises on the environment”, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned at the Stockholm+50 to spur urgent action…
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Planet parade to grace dawn sky in June
Washington: A delightful view of all five naked-eye planets will line up in the dawn sky in June, according to a monthly American magazine, adding that all of them will also be…
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Reseachers finds imbalance between energy emitted from Mars and seasonal energy
Houston: A seasonal imbalance in the amount of solar energy absorbed and released by the planet Mars is a likely cause of the dust storms that have long intrigued observers, a team…
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Ozone may be heating the planet more than we realize: Study
London: Ozone may be weakening one of the Earth’s most important cooling mechanisms, making it a more significant greenhouse gas than previously thought, recent research has found. The research by an international…
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Astronomers find no signs of Planet Nine
New York: A team of astronomers who scammed about 87 percent of the southern sky have found no trace of Planet Nine in our solar system yet. Pluto, discovered in January 1930,…
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Widest ever separation of brown dwarf pair discovered by scientists
California: A brown dwarf is an astronomical object that is an intermediate between a planet and a star. Brown dwarfs usually have a mass less than 0.075 that of the Sun or…
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Astronomers detect new planet around closest star to our solar system
Santiago: Astronomers have found evidence of another planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our Solar System. This candidate planet is the third detected in the system and the lightest yet…
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Aurorae in Saturn sky? It’s probably due to high altitude winds, says study
Leicester: Saturn is the sixth planet in the solar system which has extremely large and bright rings around it. Now, Leicester space scientists have discovered a never-before-seen mechanism fuelling huge planetary aurorae…
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Research finds gigantic planet hidden in plain sight
Riverside: A UC Riverside astronomer and a group of eagle-eyed citizen scientists have discovered a giant gas planet hidden from view by typical stargazing tools. The planet, TOI-2180 b, has the same…
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NASA citizen scientist spots Jupiter-like planet
Washington: A citizen scientist has discovered a giant gaseous planet about 379 light-years from Earth, orbiting a star with the same mass as the Sun, NASA has said. The exoplanet, called TOI-2180…
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