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Virtual Earth-sized telescope shows how science is changing

It’s the first large physics collaboration bringing together perspectives from natural sciences, social sciences and the humanities

Science This Week | Volcanoes on Venus, ‘plastic’ rock on remote island and more

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A ‘Goldilocks’ star reveals hidden step in how water gets to planets like Earth

Mysterious streaks of light seen in the sky over California

Why It Matters | TIME Magazine lists Ladakh among World’s Greatest Places 2023

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The next-generation suit on display was designed and made by Axiom Space, a Houston company that sends private people to the International Space Station. Although it’s dark coloured for now, the real moon suits will be white just like they were during NASA’s Apollo program more than a half-century ago, according to Axiom Space.

NASA unveils new spacesuit specially tailored for lunar wear

Venus: Scientists get first direct geological evidence of an active volcano

Astronomers just discovered a comet that could be brighter than most stars when we see it next year. Or will it?

NASA handed over the NISAR satellite to ISRO, a US Airforce C-17 aircraft transported the payload from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California to Bengaluru.

Science This Week | NASA hands over NISAR to ISRO, fastest single-shot camera shows how flames form soot and more

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An antenna of the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) located near the Pune-Nashik high-speed rail project route.

Explained | Why a high-speed railway project in Maharashtra has astronomers concerned

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The last image to contain a complete view of asteroid Didymos (top left) and its moonlet, Dimorphos, about 2.5 minutes before the impact of NASA’s DART spacecraft, taken by the on board DRACO imager from a distance of 920 kilometers, and released September 26, 2022.

Science This Week | Success of NASA’s DART mission, Asian megacities at risk from sea level rise and more

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Asteroid moonlet Dimorphos as seen by the DART spacecraft 11 seconds before impact in this image taken by DART’s on board DRACO imager from a distance of 68 kilometers, and released September 26, 2022.

Hubble captures a time-lapse movie of DART collision: NASA

With more lunar missions than ever on the horizon, the European Space Agency wants to give the moon its own time zone.

What time is it on moon? Europe pushing for lunar time zone

A waning gibbous moon is pictured in the sky during the English FA Cup fourth round-replay football match between Sheffield United and Wrexham at Bramall Lane in Sheffield, northern England, on February 7, 2023. (Photo by Paul ELLIS / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE. No use with unauthorized audio, video, data, fixture lists, club/league logos or 'live' services. Online in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No video emulation. Social media in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No use in betting publications, games or single club/league/player publications. /

Scientists develop comprehensive 3D thermophysical model for the Moon

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An improved understanding of the law will also have other applications, from low-temperature plasmas to the evolution of galaxies. Image for representation.

Physicists find the first law of thermodynamics is even more useful than thought

File photo of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket

SpaceX set to launch next International Space Station crew for NASA

Researchers on Tuesday said an intensive study of Earth’s deep interior, based on the behaviour of seismic waves from large earthquakes, confirmed the existence of a distinct structure inside our planet’s inner core - a wickedly hot innermost solid ball of iron and nickel about 800 miles (1,350 km) wide. Image for Representation.

Science This Week | Innermost layer of Earth’s core detected, Webb telescope discovers massive galaxies and more

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Astronomers have discovered a rapidly growing black hole in one of the most extreme galaxies known in the very early Universe, according to a new study.

Rapidly growing black hole found, could provide clues on how massive galaxies first evolved: Study

Images of six candidate massive galaxies, seen 540 million to 770 million years after the Big Bang, are shown in this undated handout image based on observations by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, as one of them (bottom left) could contain as many stars as our present-day Milky Way, but is 30 times more compact.

Space telescope uncovers massive galaxies near cosmic dawn

A peek inside the KamLAND detector as engineers install photomultiplier tubes.

Explained | Are neutrinos their own antiparticles?

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A perfectly spherical explosion, called a kilonova, that followed the merger of two very defense objects called neutron stars - remnants of massive stars after supernova explosions Ð that was observed 140-150 million light-years away from Earth is seen in this handout illustration obtained by Reuters on February 15, 2023.

Astronomers marvel at 'perfect explosion,' a spherical cosmic fireball

SSLV-D2 took of precisely at 9:18 hours IST today from the first launch pad at the Sathis Dhawan space centre SHAR, Shriharikota. The vehicle id intended to inject ISROs EOS-07, US based firm Antaris Janus -1 and Chennai based Space Start up space kids Azzadi SAT-2 satellites into a 450 km circular orbit in its 15 minutes flight . Photo: Ragu R / The Hindu

Science This Week | Multiple earthquakes shake Turkey and Syria, ISRO successfully launches SSLV-D2 and more

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Scientists think that the smallest, dust-sized icy ring particles can become charged as well, which temporarily levitates those particles above the rest of the larger icy particles and boulders in the rings, NASA said.

Hubble captures the start of a new spoke season at Saturn

Unique 3D model of the sun with surface activity and solar flares.

Something funky just happened near the sun’s north pole — why it matters

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