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25 Nov 2020

Earth had a minimoon for around 3 years before it drifted away few months ago

Earlier this year, a minimoon was found orbiting Earth by a group of astronomers. The minimoon has now drifted away. But astronomers said that more such minimoons will be found orbiting Earth in the future.

Cosmic radio burst

05 Nov 2020

Flash of luck: Astronomers spot cosmic radio burst source in our own Milky Way

A stroke of luck helped the astronomers solve a cosmic mystery. It is to be noted that these energetic pulses also called fast radio bursts were known to astronomers for over a decade now. These radio bursts happen in a couple of milliseconds.

26 Jan 2020

Scientists come across 'Vampire' star gorging on victim

The new program acts as a detective to find clues of very fast, mysterious explosions in the universe.

28 Jul 2019

Asteroid with city-wiping potential misses hitting Earth, scientists surprised

A 427-foot-wide asteroid with the potential to wipe out an entire city passed by the Earth earlier this week. However, the scientists and astronomers were not aware of the development until just days before it whizzed past the earth.

05 Dec 2018

Astronomers discover over 100 new exoplanets

They confirmed that 104 of them are really exoplanets. Seven of the confirmed exoplanets have ultra-short orbital periods less than 24 hours.

28 Mar 2018

Astronomers discover hot Earth-sized planet outside our solar system

K2-229b is 20 percent larger than Earth but has a mass 2.6 times greater -- and a dayside temperature of over 2000 degrees Celsius.

13 Dec 2017

Rowling, Malala, Usain Bolt picked out in constellations

The new constellations based on modern day inspirational figures were created in a bid to get more children looking up to the stars and interested in the universe.

09 Nov 2017

There's a star in the universe that won't stop shinning, claim astronomers

The explosions of stars, known as supernovae, have been observed in the thousands and in all cases, they marked the death of a star.

04 Nov 2017

Astronomers detect cold dust around Earth's nearest star

The new observations reveal emission from clouds of cold cosmic dust surrounding the star.

18 Oct 2017

Seven moons work together to keep Saturn's largest ring in place

For three decades, astronomers thought that only Saturn's moon Janus confined the planet's A ring.

13 Oct 2017

This star swallowed its own planets

Dubbed Kronos after the child-eating Titan of Greek mythology, the star is the clearest and most dramatic case yet of a Sun-like star consuming its own planets

05 Sep 2017

Astronomers detect massive black hole near heart of Milky Way

It was discovered lurking in a toxic gas cloud near the heart of the Milky Way.

24 Aug 2017

We bet you wouldn't have seen a star so closely before – Watch this video

They have also made the first two-dimensional map of the velocities of material in the atmosphere of a star beyond the Sun, revealing unexpected turbulence in the red supergiant star Antares's huge extended atmosphere.

04 Aug 2017

Astronomers identify oldest asteroid family

The team also discovered a relatively sparse region of the main asteroid belt, where the few asteroids present are likely pristine relics from early in solar system history.

05 Jul 2017

Astronomers detect large quantity of methanol around Saturn's moon Enceladus

Enceladus`s plumes are thought to originate in water escaping from a subsurface ocean through cracks in the moon`s icy surface. Eventually these plumes feed into Saturn`s second-outermost ring, the E-ring.

28 Jun 2017

In a first, astronomers discover orbiting supermassive black holes

Last year, an international team of researchers detected the existence of gravitational waves, confirming German physicist Albert Einstein's 100-year-old prediction and astonishing the scientific community.

22 Jun 2017

Astronomers discover huge 'dead' disk-shaped galaxy

The discovery challenges the current understanding of how massive galaxies form and evolve, researchers said.

09 Jun 2017

Infant stars surrounded by life enabling chemicals, say astronomers

The IRAS 16293-2422 is a multiple protostar system, in a large star-forming region called Rho Ophiuchi in the Serpent Bearer constellation.

08 Jun 2017

Astronomers use Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity to measure mass of star

Researchers measured the mass of a white dwarf star by analysing how much it bent the light of a more distant star, just as Einstein asserted could be done more than a century ago, as per Efe news report.

03 Jun 2017

Astronomers discover cold brown dwarf near our solar system

A brown dwarf, which is a little more than 100 light years away from the Sun was discovered by astronomers with the help of a new citizen-science tool.

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