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2019 Nobel prize in physics awarded
The Nobel Prize 2019 for Physics has jointly been awarded to three scientists – James Peebles, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz – groundbreaking discoveries about the evolution of...Pandit Jasraj becomes first Indian musician to have minor planet named after him
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has named an asteroid after Indian classical singer Pandit Jasraj. With this, Pandit Jasraj has become the first Indian maestro to have a...
Hubble Telescope finds Water Vapour on Habitable-Zone Exoplanet
For the first time have Astronomers have discovered water vapour signatures in the atmosphere of a planet beyond our solar system that resides in the habitable zone (the...Scientists discover water vapor in atmosphere of a super-Earth “K2-18b”
For the first time, the astronomers at the University College London have discovered water vapour in the atmosphere of an Earth-size planet called K2-18b. They used data from...The team of Event Horizon Telescope wins 2020 ‘Oscars of Science’
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) team of 347 scientists has won the 2020 ‘Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics’ for the first image of a super-massive black hole. The...Astronomers at Max Planck Institute of Germany discover a new black hole named Holmberg 15A
Astronomers at the Max Planck Institute of Germany have recently discovered a new black hole named Holmberg 15A that is clocking in at 40 billion times the mass...NASA discovers first nearby super-earth planet GJ357d
The NASA scientists have characterized the first potentially habitable world outside our own solar system that may be suitable for life. The super-earth planet — named GJ 357...The researchers at ARIES discovers 28 new stars in Milky Way galaxy
The Indian scientists at the Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES) have recently discovered 28 new variable stars in the Milky Way galaxy using 3.6 metre Devasthal...Dipankar Banerjee selected as Co-Investigator for NASA’s PUNCH mission
NASA has selected Texas-based Southwest Research Institute to lead its PUNCH mission which will image the Sun. This is a landmark mission that will image regions beyond the...The researchers at University of Warwick in UK discover a rogue exoplanet
The researchers at the University of Warwick in the UK have discovered a rogue exoplanet – NGTS-4b – with its own atmosphere in the Neptunian Desert. The Neptunian...
