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Boffins find the habitable Earth like exoplanets 470 light years far from our solar system

Jan 8, 2015

Space researchers may have found new planets that promise to be habitable and support life, and these are just 470 light-years away from our solar system. These new exoplanets were discovered by the Kepler spac...

NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope discovers super-earth exoplanet 180 light years far from us

Cody Gash

Dec 19, 2014

Innovation

NASA scientists announced the discovery of a massive ‘super-Earth’ planet located 180 Light Years from our Earth, discovered by using the planet-hunting Kepler Space Telescope spacecraft. The new planet is abou...

Astronomers discover double sized super Earth using a ground based telescope

Amanda

Dec 17, 2014

Innovation

Astronomers at the Canary Island have detected a super earth orbiting its star only 40 light years away from us with the help of a ground based telescope, one of the first spotting of its kind. Ground based tel...

Scientists develop a new method of calculating the magnetic field of exoplanets

Amanda

Nov 22, 2014

Innovation

Scientists have now discovered a new method of calculating the magnetic field of exoplanets. The new method will do do by studying the impact of solar winds on the atmosphere of a planet. 'Exoplanets' refer to ...

E-ELT world’s largest Telescope construction starts at blasted Mountain top in Chile

Platonium

Jun 20, 2014

Innovation

The world’s largest ground based European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) construction has started in Chile. The technicians blasted a mountain top in Chile to flatten the surface where the Extremely Large Te...

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