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Astronomers are getting concerned about the growing number of Starlink and other satellites
“The IAU embraces the principle of a dark and radio-quiet sky, not only as essential to advanc…
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The national debt crisis is set to worsen no matter who wins the election — here's what you can do to protect your portfolio
Don't expect politicians to address the issue of soaring national debt anytime soon. For investors,…
Christine Ji
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4 ways to add gold to your portfolio as investors pile in and send prices to record highs
Gold prices have shot up 30+% this year and are showing no signs of stopping thanks to economic vol…
Christine Ji
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UP, Bihar towns on Mars? Indian scientists name newly discovered Martian craters Mursan and Hilsa
Scientists at the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) in Ahmedabad have not only discovered a trio o…
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A communications satellite the size of an apartment is so bright it can outshine stars, and astronomers are worried it could interfere with their research
AST SpaceMobile's BlueWalker 3 can shine as bright as the 16th brightest star in the night sky. Hun…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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Increasing global warming and light pollution levels could severely affect ground telescope observations
The new Thirty-Metre-Telescope will be an international collaboration between India and four of the…
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Ultra-running C'ships in Bengaluru postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic
Bengaluru, Apr 17 () India's first ever Ultra-running Championship, the highly challenging race wh…
PTI
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India is giving Bengali, Sanskrit names to a lonely exoplanet and its star
Users in India can vote for their favorite choice. The star HD86081 — which is a lot like Earth’…
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NASA and Europe’s first target to keep an asteroid from hitting Earth has officially been dubbed Dimorphos
In the past, it has held many titles from Didymoon to S/2003 (65803) — it’s provisional designat…
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Second mysterious interstellar space object to fly through our solar system has an official name
Now it officially has a name — 2I/Borisov. The 2I represents that it’s the second interstellar…
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A star on the edge of the Solar System just got a Bengali name
Its accompanying exoplanet, HD86081b, also got an Indian name -- Santamasa, which means cloude…
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Trump's NASA chief, who has no scientific background, said Pluto is a planet
While NASA administrators are usually appointed from within the ranks of the agency or have substan…
Tom Porter,Tom Porter
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Earth has a new ‘mini-moon’ — and it’s not the first
The Moon isn’t the only space rock orbiting the Earth. A new mini-moon was spotted circling the pla…
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The smallest dwarf planet in our solar system was hiding in the asteroid belt
Hygiea isn’t a new discovery but the fact that it meets the International Astronomical Union’s (…
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SpaceX asked a major European astronomy group for a meeting after it published a concerning paper about Starlink's effects on telescopes
In general Williams said ESO coordinates contact with commercial space companies through working gr…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the 28-year-old who just defeated a powerful House Democrat, has an asteroid named after her - here's why
Jenifer Evans, an electrical engineer at MIT Lincoln Lab, was one of the lead scientists on LINEAR …
Dave Mosher
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Here's why some scientists think Pluto should still be a planet
Narrator: And while these new worlds looked and behaved like Pluto, they were completely different …
Gina Echevarria,Shira Polan
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Trump: Early reports on Texas school shooting 'not looking good'
"Thanks to your activism and dedication, you have an administration fighting to protect your Second…
John Haltiwanger
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Is it Planet 9 or Planet X? Scientists spar over what to call the solar system's hypothetical missing world
Stern is an ardent defender of Pluto's planethood. In 2015, shortly after New Horizons flew past Pl…
Dave Mosher
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NASA's Hubble space telescope just took incredible photos of a visiting comet from another star system
"New comets are always unpredictable," Max Mutchler, another member of the Hubble team, said in the…