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Potentially Habitable Exoplanet Found Close Enough for Us to Study Its Atmosphere Soon

Sandhya Ramesh 19/04/2017

A planet’s atmosphere is what we need to be...

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Astronomers Find Extrasolar System With Six Earth-Like Planets, Maybe Seven

Vasudevan Mukunth 22/02/2017

With them, "you can now move on from talking...

In the constellation Cassiopeia, 7,100 lightyears away, a start 45-times as heavy as our Sun is blowing out superhot winds of gas travelling at 6.4 million km/hr. These winds push against the much cooler blanket of interstellar gas, bunching them up along the surface of a giant bubble over seven lightyears across. Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

10 Iconic Images to Recall 26 Years of the Hubble Space Telescope

Vasudevan Mukunth 24/04/2016

Because of the popularity of its images, Hubble will...

Hubble Space Telescope. Source: NASA

Why ASTROSAT is Not ‘India’s Hubble’

Vasudevan Mukunth 23/09/2015

A comparison with the Hubble diminishes the ASTROSAT by...

An artist's impression of New Horizons flying by Pluton, with Charon visible in the background. Credit: SwRI/NASA

Why You Should Care About the New Horizons Probe Nearing Pluto

Vasudevan Mukunth 29/05/2015

The New Horizons probe is less than two months...