Astronomers find that two exoplanets may be mostly water
Montreal: A team led by UdeM astronomers has found evidence that two exoplanets orbiting a red dwarf star are “water worlds,” planets where water makes up a large fraction of …
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Chandrayaan scientist, Khushboo Mirza is an inspiration for girls in space science
By Zeeshan Ahmad Karimi IBNS: Chandrayaan-1, which holds an important, place in the Indian space program, completed 12 years on Oct 22. It was through this mission that the signs …
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NASA to Participate in ASCEND Conference, Brief Media on Tech Demo
NASA leaders, including Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy, will participate in the 2022 ASCEND conference, hosted by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) in Las Vegas from Monday, Oct. …
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DART Mission impact changed asteroid’s motion in space, NASA confirms
Analysis of data obtained over the past two weeks by NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) investigation team shows the spacecraft’s kinetic impact with its target asteroid, Dimorphos, successfully altered …
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Australia seeks to grow plants on moon by 2025
Australian scientists are trying to grow plants on the moon by 2025 in a new mission unveiled Friday that they said could help pave the way for a future colony. …
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Poor weather causes postponement of NASA’s Artemis 1 moon mission launch
Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said on Saturday it once again postponed the launch of Artemis 1 unmanned moon mission, scheduled for Tuesday, as tropical storm Ian is …
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Donna DeEtte Elbert helped her boss to win Nobel Prize for his research on stellar, planetary dynamics
Scientists have long studied the work of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, the Indian-born American astrophysicist who won the Nobel Prize in 1983, but few know that his research on stellar and planetary …
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An extrasolar world covered in water?
An international team of researchers led by Charles Cadieux, a Ph.D. student at the Université de Montréal and member of the Institute for Research on Exoplanets (iREx), has announced the …
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One of my big takeaways on ISS was how thin the atmosphere is, Raja Chari,
IBNS/Indian American astronaut Raja Chari spent 177 days on the International Space Station, where he conducted his first spacewalk and hada bird’s-eye view of Earth’s atmosphere. SPAN writer Krittika Sharma catches up with the …
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NASA’s Webb detects carbon dioxide in exoplanet atmosphere
Los Angeles/ National Aeronautics Space Administration’s (NASA’s) James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first clear evidence for carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet outside the solar system, …
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