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How Researchers Are Making Do in the Time of COVID-19

Anil Ananthaswamy 21/12/2020

The coronavirus pandemic has shuttered labs and sidelined scientists...

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The Story of How Scientists Discovered the Black Hole at the Milky Way’s Centre

Abhijeet Borkar 12/10/2020

Since the early 1990s, two international teams have been...

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Why Astronomers Are Up in Arms Against SpaceX’s Starlink Satellites

Abhijeet Borkar 14/06/2019

A thousand-dozen satellites would outnumber stars visible to the...

This artist’s impression shows the planet Proxima b orbiting the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Solar System. The double star Alpha Centauri AB also appears in the image between the planet and Proxima itself. Proxima b is a little more massive than the Earth and orbits in the habitable zone around Proxima Centauri, where the temperature is suitable for liquid water to exist on its surface. Caption and credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser

Scientists Believe a Potentially Habitable World Orbits Sun’s Closest Star

Sandhya Ramesh 24/08/2016

Proxima b's existence hasn't been confirmed yet – but...