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London, Sept 10 (ANI): A strange object spotted flying in Argentinean skies is speculated to be either a flying saucer or a dinosaur.

A fisherman near San Rafael photographed the mysterious object flying over an artificial lake called El-Nihuil last Saturday.

The Telegraph quoted fisherman Pino as [...]

Washington, August 27 (ANI): Astronomers have confirmed that an email promising a “Mars spectacular” event on August 27, when the Red Planet will look as large as the full moon, is nothing but a hoax.

According to a report in National Geographic News, the anonymous message from an unknown part of the globe says that the [...]

London, August 26 (ANI): In a new study, a team of scientists has described how aluminium radioisotopes can now offer precise timing of events 4.5 billion years ago, and thus have been dubbed as the ’stopwatch for the solar system’.

According to a report by BBC News, the study shows that [...]

London, August 19 (ANI): Meteorite hunter Rob Elliott has sold almost his entire collection of space rocks that gathered 113,000 pounds at an auction in Edinburgh.

The full-time dealer placed the 171 items,that were expected to fetch more than 500,000 pounds, under the hammer at the Lyon and Turnbull Auction House.

One Christmas meteorite, which fell on [...]

Washington, August 18 (ANI): Scientists have found the first planet that orbits “backward” around its star, an eccentricity likely caused by a collision with a larger neighbor early in its life.

According to a report in National Geographic News, the planet, dubbed WASP-17b, orbits a star about a thousand light-years away.

In addition to its exceptionally [...]

Washington, July 10 (ANI): A new theory by a University of Melbourne physicist has said that Galileo knew he had discovered a new planet, that we now know as Neptune, in the year 1613, 234 years before its official discovery date.

Professor David Jamieson, Head of the School of Physics, has put the theory forward.

He is [...]

London, June 21 (ANI): Humans are not the only ones cribbing over weight issues, some planets too go through a “fat” stage that swells their waistlines temporarily.

“Astronomers have found a lot of planets whose sizes cannot be explained by standard theory,” says Laurent Ibgui of Princeton University.

The difference between predicted and measured widths of [...]

Washington, May 29 (ANI): Arizona State University (ASU) researchers and scientists have created a new feature for Google Earth 5.0, which would enable anyone, anywhere, to recommend places on Mars to photograph.

Google Earth 5.0 is the popular online [...]

Srinagar, May 22 (ANI): The residents of Srinagar are resorting to wearing stones to beat the stress and turn the planetary movement in their favour to improve their fortunes.

They feel that the best way to deal with stress is to use stones as these stone manage to influence the planetary movements of planets, to impact [...]

London, April 29 (ANI): Two new studies have suggested that exoplanets which venture near their host stars are doomed to premature deaths – even before they get close enough to be ripped apart by the stars’ gravity.

According to a report in New Scientist, the studies say that a star’s gravity can put a nearby planet [...]

Washington, April 8 (ANI): A new study from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope hints that planets around stars cooler than our Sun might possess a different mix of potentially life-forming, or “prebiotic,” chemicals.

Astronomers used Spitzer to look for a prebiotic chemical, called hydrogen cyanide, in the planet-forming material swirling around different types of stars.

Hydrogen cyanide [...]

Washington, Jan 22 (ANI): Astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have discovered a planet somewhat larger and more massive than Neptune orbiting a star 120 light-years from Earth, which they have termed as “Super-Neptune”.

While Neptune has a diameter 3.8 times that of Earth and a mass 17 times Earth’s, the new world (named HAT-P-11b) [...]

London, Jan 7 (ANI): Scientists have observed asteroid dust in and around a handful of dead stars, that is made up of similar materials as the Earth, which suggests Earth-like planets may be common in the Universe.
According to a report in New Scientist, six white dwarfs, the burned-out embers of Sun-like stars, showed heavy elements, [...]

Washington, Jan 6 (ANI): Observations made with NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed six dead “white dwarf” stars littered with the remains of shredded asteroids, which may shed new light on the birth of planets.
So far, the results suggest that the same materials that make up the Earth and our solar system’s other rocky bodies [...]

Washington, Jan 6 (ANI): A new study of planet formation around young stars has revealed that the planet Jupiter may have gained weight in a hurry during its infancy, since the material from which it formed probably disappeared in just a few million years.
For the study, Smithsonian astronomers examined the 5 million-year-old star cluster NGC [...]

Washington, Jan 6 (ANI): In a new study, astronomers have suggested that Jupiter-like planets may easily form around certain types of twin star systems.
A disk of molecules discovered orbiting a pair of twin young suns in the constellation Sagittarius strongly suggests that many such binary systems also host planets.
“We think the molecular gas orbiting these [...]