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WASP-107b: Giant Exoplanet has low core mass

The researchers studying about the WASP-107b have recently found that the core mass of the giant exoplanet is...

📅 January 23, 2021

First Potential Radio signal from Exo planet

An international team of scientists have collected the first possible radio signal from an exoplanet. The exoplanet is...

📅 December 22, 2020

What is Planet Nine?

Planet Nine is a hypothetical planet that is said to be 10 times the size of the Earth...

📅 December 14, 2020

Arecibo Telescope: Key Facts

Built in 1963, Puerto Rico’s Arecibo Telescope was built in 1963. It is the second-largest single-dish radio telescope...

📅 December 4, 2020

Birth of New Planets witnessed first time in human history

The SPHERE instrument of the Very Large Telescope has captured the birth of new planet in the AB...

📅 May 31, 2020

Super Earth discovered

The scientists from New Zealand have discovered the “Super Earth”. It potentially holds the conditions to sustain human...

📅 May 18, 2020

Orbital Resonance

Scientists have discovered that the planets surrounding the HD 158259 star are in an almost perfect orbital harmony....

📅 April 24, 2020

Scientists discover nearest-known exoplanet

Scientists at the Rochester Institute of Technology Scientists recently discovered an exo-planet, which is closer to Earth than...

📅 February 15, 2020

International Astronomical Union names a star after Indian Woman Scientist

On December 17, 2019, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) named a white yellow star in Sextans Constellation as...

📅 December 18, 2019

2019 Nobel prize in physics awarded

The Nobel Prize 2019 for Physics has jointly been awarded to three scientists – James Peebles, Michel Mayor...

📅 October 9, 2019

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