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Thanks to NASA telescope, ‘corona’ got sharper
23 July 2012 6:19 AM ISTNASA has captured the highest resolution images ever taken of the sun’s million-degree atmosphere called the corona.The super high-definition images...
Mission to Mars
17 July 2012 10:12 AM ISTWith the Indian space department having made it clear that India is all set for the ambitious mission to Mars, the exciting interplanetary spaceflight...
NASA cancels space telescope project
9 Jun 2012 3:11 PM ISTNASA has announced the cancelling of its new space telescope project designed to seek out black holes and other cosmic mysteries through X-ray light...
Indian imprint on largest radio telescope
4 Jun 2012 7:19 AM ISTThe world’s largest and most sensitive radio telescope, being built in South Africa and Australia, will have a distinct Indian imprint. Every movement...
On track of water on Mars
24 May 2012 6:19 PM ISTExcitement is building up as the scientists in-charge of NASA’s Mars Rover Curiosity have begun operational readiness tests of the vehicle, this...
Life-bearing planets possible
15 May 2012 1:28 PM ISTA few hundred thousand billion free-floating life-bearing earth-sized planets may exist in the space between stars in the Milky Way, says a study. The...
Astronomers discover 'hidden planet'
12 May 2012 12:26 PM ISTAstronomers have discovered what they claim is a 'hidden planet' outside our solar system, using a 150-year-old technique used to find Neptune. A team...
Spitzer detects new planet
10 May 2012 11:09 AM ISTNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has detected light emanating from a 'super-Earth' planet beyond our solar system for the first time. 'Spitzer has...
Black hole devours unlucky star
4 May 2012 5:01 AM ISTScientists have witnessed the rare spectacle of a supermassive black hole devouring a star that had ventured too close - an event that occurs about...
Neutrinos 'may soon be measured accurately'
1 May 2012 6:52 PM ISTPlanetary scientists claim that their new research would for the first time help astronomers accurately measure neutrinos, the lightest known...