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‘Super Earth’: NASA finds planet sending mysterious signal 154 light years away

Abderahmane Soubkiou and his team at the Oukaimeden Observatory in Morocco confirmed the planet’s discovery by working with observers on four continents.
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Published on Jul 16, 2025 05:11 pm IST

Webb Telescope spots its 1st alien planet: ‘TWA 7b’

An image of the protoplanetary disk around the star TWA 7, recorded using the European Southern Observatory's Chile-based Very Large Telescope's SPHERE instrument, is seen with an image captured with the James Webb Space Telescope's MIRI instrument overlayed in this image released on June 25, 2025.
world news
Published on Jun 26, 2025 07:28 am IST

Astronomers discover new ‘Super-Venus’ exoplanet redefining planetary science

Astronomers identified Enaiposha, a "Super-Venus" exoplanet 47 light-years away, challenging classifications with its dense atmosphere and unique traits.
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Published on Jan 27, 2025 11:59 am IST

Seven planets will align in the sky in February. What it means?

While Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune are already visible in the sky, Mercury will join them next month for just one night.
science
Published on Jan 21, 2025 09:56 am IST

Global astronomers spot ‘super Jupiter’ planet, IIT Kanpur prof part of team

As per the finding, the planet has been classified as super Jupiter due to its mass, which exceeds that of Jupiter by at least six times, making it significantly larger than any planet in the solar system. (Photo credits: T. Müller)
news
Published on Jul 25, 2024 02:37 pm IST

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope solves mystery of this puffy exoplanet

NASA's image of the puffy exoplanet WASP-107 b.
science
Updated on May 21, 2024 09:20 pm IST

New "fiery" exoplanet discovered, found to display volcanic activity like Jupiter's Io

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Published on May 13, 2024 02:16 pm IST

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope finds water vapour in exoplanet

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope found water on an exoplanet.
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Published on Jan 30, 2024 09:30 pm IST

Life in other worlds? Intriguing new possibilities emerge

This Nasa handout image captured by the James Webb telescope and obtained on July 12, 2023, shows a small star-forming region in the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex, the closest star-forming region to Earth. (AFP)
world news
Updated on Sept 29, 2023 10:28 am IST

Exciting findings, new ideas in hunt for alien life

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An artist’s concept of what the exoplanet K2-18b could look like. (ESA)
world news
Updated on Nov 23, 2023 03:20 am IST

‘Evidence’ of two planets possibly sharing same orbit around their star found

This image, taken with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), shows the young planetary system PDS 70, located nearly 400 light-years away from Earth. European Southern Observatory via AP)
science
Published on Jul 21, 2023 02:05 pm IST

Watch: ‘Giant mirror’-like alien planet that ‘shouldn't exist’, discovered

An artist's impression of the exoplanet LTT9779b orbiting its host star, located 264 light years from Earth.
science
Published on Jul 11, 2023 01:42 pm IST

NASA's Kepler discovers trio of exoplanets in final days of decade-long mission

All these exoplanets are between the size of Earth and Neptune, and closely orbit their stars. (Illustrative Image)
science
Published on May 31, 2023 03:22 pm IST

Nasa tweets sound emitted by Perseus black hole and it'll blow your mind. Watch

Screengrab from the video shared by Nasa Exoplanets with sound from the Perseus black hole. 
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Published on Aug 22, 2022 05:44 pm IST

News updates from HT: Rajnath Singh to inaugurate revamped Rezang La memorial

Indian Army Chief General MM Naravane pays tribute to the martyred soldiers at Rezang La War Memorial.
india news
Published on Nov 18, 2021 08:58 am IST

Ahmedabad-based scientists discover star-planet bigger than Jupiter

A new star planet has been discovered orbiting too close to an evolved or aging star with a mass of 1.5 times that of Sun.
science
Published on Nov 17, 2021 04:39 pm IST

First 'moon-forming' disc surrounding exoplanet detected by astronomers

This image shows the PDS 70 system, located nearly 400 light-years away and still in the process of being formed.
science
Published on Jul 22, 2021 11:39 pm IST

Nasa says newly-discovered exoplanet could have water clouds and a ‘tail’

Artist’s rendering of TOI-1231 b, a Neptune-like planet about 90 light-years away from Earth.
world news
Published on Jun 11, 2021 05:41 pm IST

Astronomers discover exoplanet that behaves like long theorized Planet Nine

The exoplanet is very far from its two host stars, over 730 times the distance of the Earth from the Sun. One trip around its suns takes 15,000 years.
science
Updated on Dec 12, 2020 05:30 pm IST

Cambridge team finds potentially habitable exoplanet twice Earth size

Given the large size of K2-18b, it has been suggested that it would be more like a smaller version of Neptune than a larger version of Earth, the university said.
world news
Updated on Feb 27, 2020 06:25 pm IST

Star named after Indian scientist, exoplanet gets a Sanskrit name

The names of the two astronomical bodies were announced by the Paris-based International Astronomical Union (IAU) along with the names of 111 sets of exoplanets and host stars.
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Updated on Dec 18, 2019 05:24 pm IST

Can there be any form of life on exoplanets?

NASA.
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Updated on Oct 15, 2019 07:55 pm IST

Water outside Earth? Researchers discover vapour in exoplanet’s atmosphere

Water has been discovered for the first time in the atmosphere of an exoplanet
world news
Updated on Sept 12, 2019 08:37 am IST

Newly discovered super-Earth exoplanet may harbour alien life

The recently discovered cold super-Earth exoplanet orbiting around the red dwarf Barnard -- the second closest star system to Earth -- has the potential to harbour primitive life, says a study.
world news
Updated on Jan 16, 2019 01:10 pm IST

Using NASA’s Kepler Space telescope, scientists discover over 100 new exoplanets

Exoplanets, which revolve around stars other than the sun, have been actively researched in recent years.
world news
Updated on Dec 04, 2018 04:41 pm IST

In a first for Indian science, team from Ahmedabad finds an exoplanet

Scientists did not directly observe the planet but monitored the changes in the wavelength of light emitting from the star to deduce the presence of another body in its star system
science
Updated on Jun 08, 2018 06:46 pm IST
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