Washington: An orbiting NASA telescope is finding whole new worlds of possibilities in the search for alien life, spotting more than 50 potential planets that appear to be in the habitable zone. In just a year of peering out at a small slice of the galaxy, the Kepler telescope has discovered 1,235 possible planets outside our solar system. Amazingly 54 of them are seemingly in the zone that could be...
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Those behind the find say the star, called R136a1, may once have weighed as much as 320 solar masses. ...11:21 PM, Jul 21, 2010
Hundreds of gigantic black holes are leftover from the galaxy-building days. ...11:56 AM, Apr 30, 2009
There may be 100 billion Earth-like planets in the Milky Way. ...08:04 PM, Feb 26, 2009
London: Regretting the loss of key players to injuries midway through the match, India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Monday criticised the variable bounce of the Lord's pitch after his team's defeat in the first Test against England here. What we saw different from the 2007 series this time was the variable bounce. It became tough. In 2007, there was much more bounce but it was even too. It was...10:55 AM, Feb 15, 2008
NASA has detected a massive supernova, the type that may have played a key role in the birth of the planets, they say. ...01:09 PM, May 08, 2007
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