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The 400 light-years away open cluster in the constellation of Taurus and among the nearest to the Earth — Pleiades — seems to be ever happening, now that small, rocky planets may be in the making in the cluster!
It is all happening around one...
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Chirps and whistles of our planet\’s auroral kilometric radiation (AKR) might be the first thing an extraterrestrial civilization is likely to hear from Earth. In...
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There\’s a global computing effort dedicated to moving vast volumes of data around the world. You already knew that, but this one isn\’t being used to...
made popular Jun 29 2008
Researchers said they discovered a batch of three “super-Earths” orbiting a nearby star, and two other solar systems with small planets as well.
They said...
made popular Jun 18 2008
NASA’s Mars Phoenix lander touched down in the far north of the Red Planet yesterday and has started sending first pictures of the unexplored region. This flight...
made popular May 27 2008
Mars and Venus, those seemingly contrasting planets of self-help book fame, have more in common than you might think. Two nearly identical spacecraft around Mars and...
made popular Mar 19 2008
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Those having trouble remembering the newly assigned 11 planets, including three dwarfs, can thank a fourth-grader.
made popular Feb 27 2008
AP, Great Falls
A fourth-grader at Riverview Elementary School has won the National Geographic planetary mnemonic contest, developing a handy way to remember the newly assigned 11...
made popular Feb 26 2008
AP, Great Falls
A fourth-grader at Riverview Elementary School has won the National Geographic planetary mnemonic contest, developing a handy way to remember the newly assigned 11...
made popular Feb 26 2008
AP, Washington
In a solar system thousands of light years away, a star about half the size of our sun is being orbited by two planets that seem like smaller versions of Jupiter and...
made popular Feb 14 2008
The cosmos never ceases to amaze us with its sheer size and splendor. The star studded sky above us and the vast unexplored eternity that lay beyond us have always...
made popular Dec 15 2007
If you are on hunt for some inimitable thing that could offer exceptionally accurate details about the workings of our solar system, you need to halt and take a look at...
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Mercury has been a complex puzzle for the researchers. The closest planet from the sun has always been the center of mystery. The researchers in the United States have...
made popular May 5 2007
The bodies of our Solar System have orbited continuously around the Sun since their formation, but they have not always been there, and conditions will not always be...
made popular Dec 22 2006
Stephen Hawking’s latest remark that it’s time for humans to colonize other planets that exist in far away solar systems if the race is to survive, pulls the cords of...
made popular Dec 1 2006
The search for intelligent life on other planets is encouraging the research interests of astronomers. only a tiny fraction of the 200 to 400 billion stars in our...
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It has two disks of material rotating in opposite directions. The new found object is out in the space, and it’s new in itself – a developing star. Astronomers feel...
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Two huge “hypergiant” stars are found circled by monstrous disks of what might be planet-forming dust, NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has identified...
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It is for the first time astronomers have put some real numbers on the physical characteristics of dark matter. Using 23 nights of observing time on the VLT, the...
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How realistic is it to think about reaching the nearest stars? The current space travel is limited to just a few robotic probes visiting nearby planets! It is not...
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In a previous post we have discusses scientists’ predictions on ‘if there was tide on the Titan’s surface’! The robotic explorers who are probing neighboring planets...
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The high desert of Chile will soon be witnessing the largest ground-based astronomy project on its soil. The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) costs $1 billion....
made popular May 30 2006
It has two disks of material rotating in opposite directions. The new found object is out in the space, and it’s new in itself – a developing star. Astronomers feel...
made popular Feb 14 2006
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