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Scientists are puzzled after another bizarre hexagon vortex appears above Saturn's north pole

Before Cassini, the Voyager spacecraft of NASA had also discovered and documented a comparatively lower-altitude hexagon at Saturn's north pole in the 1980s

Sep 6, 2018

By Poulami Nag

Science

Can black holes bring dead white dwarf stars back to life?

Tides caused by black holes on dead white dwarf stars can momentarily start it up and cause fission to take place momentarily.

Sep 1, 2018

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Universe

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Skull-shaped asteroid returns: Halloween asteroid will come close to earth in November 2018

The Spooky Asteroid or the Skull Asteroid will zoom by earth in November 2018 but this time the flyby won't occur exactly on Halloween day and will be less close to the planet.

Aug 30, 2018

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

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Strings attached: Ghost black hole may have evidence of another universe

Ghost black holes discovered in the cosmos could prove that another universe existed before before the creation of our own universe.

Aug 29, 2018

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Universe

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NASA to launch new satellite to study melting ice sheets on Earth

Along with understanding the changes in polar ice caps, the satellite will help the scientists understand the world's forests better as well

Aug 25, 2018

By Poulami Nag

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This handout picture provided by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) shows the surface of the moon taken by Moon Impact Probe (MIP), after separating from India's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, November 14, 2008. A lunar probe from India's first unma

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NASA confirms that water ice exists at moon's poles; How it can help astronomers?

NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) instrument aboard Chandrayaan-1, an Indian spacecraft collected data from the lunar orbit that confirmed the existence of water in the moon.

Aug 22, 2018

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

NASA scientist Melissa Floyd holds her 3D-printed FISHbot prototype, which she is advancing to search for bacterial life on Mars and other solar system targets.

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NASA scientist begins developing robot that will search for extraterrestrial bacteria in other planets

Melissa Floyd, a NASA scientist wants to create a device that will be capable of finding bacteria or another type of single-celled microorganism called archaea in other planets.

Aug 13, 2018

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

New Horizons is the fifth spacecraft to traverse the Kuiper Belt, but the first to conduct a scientific study of this mysterious region beyond Neptune

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NASA's spacecraft detects massive hydrogen wall that surrounds entire solar system

New Horizons is currently in the Kuiper Belt, waiting for a flyby of a rock roughly 30 kilometers across, after which it will carry on towards the Oort clouds.

Aug 13, 2018

By Immanuel Jotham

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There are colorful stars galore, but likely no habitable planets, inside the globular star cluster

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New study says Omega Centauri, mini-version of solar system but no sign of life

The stars in that part of the Milky Way are packed in too tightly, so they are likely to interact with each other every million years or so.

Aug 11, 2018

By Immanuel Jotham

Universe

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Ganymede's electromagnetic waves are more powerful than Jupiter's

Considering how powerful the electromagnetic field is around Ganymede, scientists are questioning what kind of damage it can do to a spacecraft that gets close to it.

Aug 9, 2018

By Immanuel Jotham

This chart compares the smallest known exoplanets, or planets orbiting outside the solar system, to our own planets Mars and Earth.

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Among thousands of exoplanets, scientists identify best candidates to search for alien life

Scientists said that as of now 3815 exoplanets have been discovered but Kepler 452bm or "Earth's cousin", now is known as the most potential candidate to support life.

Aug 6, 2018

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Exoplanet Alien

Shenzhou-11 spacecraft returns after China's longest-ever manned space mission

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All three of humanity's space exploration targets in one image from Earth

The image with the Moon, Mars, and the ISS are seen together was taken near Mount Remarkable National Park, Australia.

Aug 4, 2018

By Immanuel Jotham

Nasa

This six-panel graphic illustrates a possible scenario for the powerful blast seen 170 years ago from the star system Eta Carinae

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NASA recreates how Milky Way Star fought with siblings 170 years ago

Though it is not possible to travel back to the 1800s to once again see and record the actual eruption, a "rebroadcast" of sorts was captured by scientists, about 170 years later, now.

Aug 4, 2018

By Immanuel Jotham

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Canada telescope detects new radio signal from distant planet; Sign of alien civilizations?

FRBs or signals which come from the deep space from sources such as bursts from magnetars, exploding black holes, and of course, highly advanced alien civilizations if there are any.

Aug 3, 2018

By Abhirami Pillai

Illustration of the early solar disk, with an inset image of a blue hibonite crystal, one of the first minerals to form in the Solar System.

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Ancient blue crystals trapped inside meteorites unveils mysteries from Sun's history

The trapped blue crystals have revealed that what the Sun was like before the formation of other planets in the solar system.

Aug 2, 2018

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

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New research says black holes are growing 'fuzzballs' and might not have a ring of fire

Black holes can be likened to giant balls of string, researchers have said. These balls of string gather additional material as new objects like stars and planets get sucked in.

Jul 31, 2018

By Immanuel Jotham