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NASA declares April as the second-warmest in 137 years

While April 2017 was the second-warmest, April 2016 was the hottest as it was 1.06 degrees Celsius warmer than the April mean temperature of 137 years.

May 16, 2017

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NASA's Mars Rover explores the origin of fluid-carved Perseverance Valley

This mission marks the beginning of 150th month since Opportunity rover's landing in Mars' Meridiani Planum region in 2004.

May 16, 2017

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KalamSat: Indian teen Rifath Sharook builds world's lightest and smallest satellite

Made using reinforced carbon fibre polymer, KalamSat weighs exactly 64 grams, which is lesser than a smartphone's weight.

May 15, 2017

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NASA's Hubble discovers a stunning galaxy duo in Hare constellation

The pace of these galaxies is way too swift for them to unite and form a single galaxy, but as the separation between them is small, around 20,000 light-years.

May 15, 2017

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Cassini Grand Finale: NASA's spacecraft discovers brightest cloud rings on Saturn's moon Titan

Titan is the only celestial body apart from Earth which is known to harbour liquid water on its surface. Titan also experiences changes in seasons.

May 15, 2017

NASA: Mystery behind oxygen discovered on Comet 67P finally revealed!

Molecular oxygen is present on Earth in abundance, but is hardly found anywhere else in the universe.

May 13, 2017

Human civilization on Mars: 5 ways how the Red Planet is fatal for humans!

Spacefarers going to Mars would face these five life-threatening issues, hence they should be cautious to survive on the planet

May 12, 2017

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NASA detects signs of water on newly-discovered Neptune-sized alien world

Astronomers have just begun to investigate the atmospheres of these distant planets, and almost right away have found an example that goes against the trend in our solar system.

May 12, 2017

NASA's NuSTAR makes new revelations about supermassive blackholes in merging galaxies

Stars, debris and gas are known to orbit black holes for long time spans till the materials are pushed in because of major disturbances.

May 11, 2017

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Five observatories join hands to reveal more about the stunning Crab Nebula [VIDEO]

The Crab Nebula possesses a super-dense neutron star at its center, which rotates once at every 33 milliseconds and emits radio waves and light -- referred to as 'pulsar'.

May 11, 2017

Ancient meteor collisions led to volcanic eruptions lasting up to 1 million years

The 1.85-billion-year-old Sudbury basin in Canada is the second largest and best preserved crater on the planet.

May 6, 2017

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South Asian telecommunication satellite GSAT-9 launched from Sriharikota; PM Modi calls it historic moment

The satellite is expected to help the countries in areas like "mapping of natural resources, tele-medicine, education, IT connectivity and people-to-people links".

May 5, 2017

NASA's Mars Rover examines active linear dunes on the Red Planet

One of the questions that this Martian dune campaign is addressing is how exactly the winds shaped the dunes that are located so closely.

May 5, 2017

Cassini's Grand Finale: Watch the NASA spacecraft explore Saturn during its first dive [VIDEO]

The video shows the swirling vortex present on the north pole of Saturn, it also shows the outer boundary of the hexagon-shaped jet stream which is located around 78°N and beyond.

May 4, 2017

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NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory discovers a giant hot wave in the Perseus galaxy [VIDEO]

Like all galaxy clusters, majority of the noticeable matter of this galaxy too transform into pervasive gas, which attains temperature as high as tens of millions of degrees and it radiates only in X-rays.

May 3, 2017

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Space

NASA declares April as the second-warmest in 137 years

NASA's Mars Rover explores the origin of fluid-carved Perseverance Valley

KalamSat: Indian teen Rifath Sharook builds world's lightest and smallest satellite

NASA's Hubble discovers a stunning galaxy duo in Hare constellation

Cassini Grand Finale: NASA's spacecraft discovers brightest cloud rings on Saturn's moon Titan

NASA: Mystery behind oxygen discovered on Comet 67P finally revealed!

Human civilization on Mars: 5 ways how the Red Planet is fatal for humans!

NASA detects signs of water on newly-discovered Neptune-sized alien world

NASA's NuSTAR makes new revelations about supermassive blackholes in merging galaxies

Five observatories join hands to reveal more about the stunning Crab Nebula [VIDEO]

Ancient meteor collisions led to volcanic eruptions lasting up to 1 million years

South Asian telecommunication satellite GSAT-9 launched from Sriharikota; PM Modi calls it historic moment

NASA's Mars Rover examines active linear dunes on the Red Planet

Cassini's Grand Finale: Watch the NASA spacecraft explore Saturn during its first dive [VIDEO]

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory discovers a giant hot wave in the Perseus galaxy [VIDEO]

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