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NASA posts new photos of 3I/ATLAS amid spacecraft claims; Avi Loeb chips in

NASA posts new photos of the comet amid spacecraft claims (Photo by NASA / AFP)

Published on Dec 05, 2025 04:50 am IST

Where is everyone?: The latest from our search for alien life planet

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Stills from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005), The Martian (2015) and Interstellar (2014). A NASA rendering of the spiral galaxy NGC 1068; an image of the Curiosity lander on Mars; and a rendering of the Trappist 1 system. (Images: NASA / CXC / SAO / J Schmidt and N Wolk; NASA / JPL-Caltech)

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Updated on Oct 10, 2025 05:56 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.

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Published on Jun 26, 2025 07:28 am IST

Finally! NASA’s Webb confirms first discovery of frozen water around young star

The ice that NASA's Webb discovered has a crystalline structure, which is also present in other well-researched regions of the solar system, like the Kuiper Belt and Saturn's rings.

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Published on May 17, 2025 06:30 pm IST

‘Are we ready for this?’: Wknd interviews the astrophysicist who captured signs

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The gas signatures Madhusudhan and his team at Cambridge have detected are the surest signs of life outside Earth that humanity has ever encountered. How we interpret and build on this data, from 124 light years away, will be crucial, he says.

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Updated on Apr 26, 2025 03:07 pm IST

Scientists find ‘strongest evidence’ yet of life beyond our solar system

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Published on Apr 18, 2025 06:52 am IST

Scientists find strongest evidence yet of life on an alien planet

A graph shows the observed transmission spectrum of the habitable zone exoplanet K2-18 b using the James Webb Space Telescope MIRI spectrograph instrument. The vertical shows the fraction of star light absorbed in the planet's atmosphere due to molecules in its atmosphere. The data are shown in the yellow circles with the 1-sigma uncertainties. The curves show the model fits to the data, with the black curve showing the median fit and the cyan curves outlining the 1-sigma intervals of the model fits. The absorption features attributed to dimethyl sulphide and dimethyl disulphide are indicated by the horizontal lines and text. The image behind the graph is an illustration of a hycean planet orbiting a red dwarf star. This image was obtained by Reuters on April 16, 2025. A. Smith, N. Madhusudhan/University of Cambridge/Handout via REUTERS NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY.

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Published on Apr 17, 2025 07:58 am IST

‘City-killer’ asteroid 2024 YR4 no longer threat to Earth, but may hit moon

The asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 2% chance of striking the moon in 2032.

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Published on Apr 03, 2025 05:09 pm IST

‘City-killer’ asteroid predictions clash amid added fears of Moon impact

This handout picture provided by NASA on January 31, 2025 shows asteroid 2024 YR4 as observed by the Magdalena Ridge 2.4m telescope at the New Mexico Institute of Technology on January 27, 2025.

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Published on Feb 14, 2025 12:27 pm IST

Asteroid 2024 YR4 may hit Earth in 2032; know which nations are at risk

Asteroid 2024 YR4: The NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System station in Chile made the initial discovery of 2024 YR4 in December 2024.

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Updated on Feb 14, 2025 10:43 pm IST

NASA's rare ‘emergency’ tied to ‘city-killer’ asteroid's Earth collision in 2032

Asteroid 2024 YRF now has a 2.3% chance of hitting the Earth in 2032, surpassing "the 1% impact probability threshold to warrant formal notification of the object to other U.S. government agencies involved in planetary defense as well as to the Space Mission Planning Advisory Group and to the United Nations Office of Outer Space Affairs per the International Asteroid Warning Network’s notification charter," per NASA.

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Updated on Feb 14, 2025 12:04 pm IST

NASA's James Webb telescope to track asteroid as odds of hitting Earth rise

Current estimates put the asteroid somewhere between 40 meters and 90 meters wide. (Representative Image)

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Updated on Feb 11, 2025 02:10 pm 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

Cosmic dance of 'the Penguin and the Egg' galaxies caught by NASA's James Webb

A pair of interacting galaxies called Arp 142 locked in a cosmic dance as captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.

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Updated on Jul 14, 2024 06:51 pm IST

In a first, NASA Webb Telescope captures jets of gas from newborn stars

This image of jets of gas from newborn stars was shared by NASA.

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Published on Jun 24, 2024 02:55 pm IST

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

NASA's image of the puffy exoplanet WASP-107 b.

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Updated on May 21, 2024 09:20 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)

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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)

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Updated on Nov 23, 2023 03:20 am IST

Life beyond Earth: NASA's Webb detects CO2 on surface of Jupiter's Moon Europa

This graphic shows a map of Europa’s surface with NIRCam (Near Infrared Camera) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope in the first panel and compositional maps derived from Webb’s NIRSpec/IFU (Near Infrared Spectrograph’s Integral Field Unit) data in the following three panels.

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Published on Sept 22, 2023 03:41 pm IST

Telescope shares stunning ‘String of Pearls’ of the closest supernova

JWST unveils stunning details of SN1987A supernova, 170,000 light-years away. Rings of gas and dust illuminate the explosion's history, offering fresh insights.

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Updated on Sept 01, 2023 08:02 am IST

End stages of dying sun to actively forming stars: James Webb's recent captures

Remnants of a dying star (L). Two actively forming stars (R)

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Published on Aug 04, 2023 11:17 pm IST

Eureka moment ! Astronomers detect ‘water’ in a planetary system in the universe

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Published on Jul 28, 2023 06:40 am IST

‘I can’t get over these images,' Obama praises James Webb Space Telescope

The Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex, the closest star-forming region to Earth, is seen in a composite of separate exposures acquired by the James Webb Space Telescope using the NIRCam instrument released July 12, 2023. NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Klaus Pontoppidan and Alyssa Pagan/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY.

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Published on Jul 13, 2023 02:07 am IST

Star is born! NASA celebrates James Webb's first anniversary with stunning image

In this photo provided by NASA, technicians lift the mirror of the James Webb Space Telescope using a crane,

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Published on Jul 12, 2023 09:25 pm IST

Webb Space Telescope discovers ‘most-distant supermassive black hole’ till date

Two smaller black holes that existed 1 and 1.1 billion years after the big bang were also found in CEERS 1019 galaxy.

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Published on Jul 07, 2023 08:10 pm IST

'You're looking at more than 45,000 galaxies': NASA posts pic

More than 45,000 galaxies captured by Jamess Webb Space Telescope.

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Published on Jun 06, 2023 03:56 pm IST

‘Celestial monsters’: James Webb Space Telescope on detecting supermassive stars

The team of European researchers behind the study previously theorised the existence of supermassive stars in 2018 in an attempt to explain one of the great mysteries of astronomy. (File/Reuters)

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Published on May 17, 2023 05:09 pm IST