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An interplanetary collision might have shrunk Mercury to its current size, scientists think
Mercury, the smallest and closest planet to the Sun, has long captivated scientists with its extrem…
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BPCL planning Rs 1.7 lakh crore spend to expand core business, new energy foray over next five years
The firm is now implementing the first phase of a multi-decade aspirational journey in the form of …
PTI
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Is there really another planet hiding deep inside our Earth?
Scientists theorise that approximately 4.5 billion years ago, a colossal collision, termed the "gia…
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Big banks promised to protect the planet. Now they're doing an about-face.
Big banks and asset managers are a powerful force in fighting the climate crisis, but many of them …
Catherine Boudreau
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Earth's inner core reversed direction and is slowing down, and scientists don't know why
A new study offers compelling evidence that Earth's inner core reversed direction and is slowing do…
Jessica Orwig
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NASA scientists think some planets are shrinking because powerful radiation from their cores is pushing away their atmospheres
The mystery of a missing class of planets has had NASA astronomers scratching their heads. New evid…
Sebastian Cahill,Morgan McFal…
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Why did a NASA spacecraft suddenly start talking gibberish after more than 45 years of operation? What fixed it?
Voyager 1 mysteriously stopped sending decipherable science and engineering data back to Earth on N…
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Earth's inner core becomes slightly wonky every 8.5 years, potentially shaking up its magnetic field!
By meticulously analysing both polar motion and Earth's rotation changes, the team unearthed someth…
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A mysterious Jupiter-sized planet that shouldn't exist is as puffy as a marshmallow and astronomers finally think they know why
"Super puff" WASP 107b confused scientists for years. Now, two independent teams of astronomers thi…
Ellyn Lapointe
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Mars could be creating 'giant whirlpools' deep within our planet's oceans
Scientists claim the red planet's gravitational pull may be strong enough to move sediments on Eart…
Marianne Guenot
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Earth's mysterious core appears to be leaking, leaving scientists baffled
The study suggests the Earth's core may be leaking helium, upheaving the belief that the giant ball…
Marianne Guenot
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Earth's core may be coated in a layer of crystals created by water leaking from the surface: study
Scientists have long looked for an explanation for a mysterious zone in the outer core. Now some th…
Marianne Guenot
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Chunks of an alien world could be hidden deep within our planet, say scientists
A supercomputer simulation has provided new evidence that continent-sized chunks of Theia, which he…
Marianne Guenot
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The mystery of how the moon formed is still puzzling scientists. The secret could lie deep within our planet.
Scientists have several theories for how the moon first formed. The leading hypothesis involves a m…
Marianne Guenot
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Earth's mysterious core is weirder than you think, and we're only just beginning to uncover its secrets
From a spinning ball of metal at its heart to mountains keeping it warm, research is starting to un…
Marianne Guenot
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Earth's mysterious core may be encased by an ancient ocean floor that has mountains 5 times taller than Everest
An ancient ocean may protect Earth's core, according to the most detailed map yet of the geology be…
Marianne Guenot
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Earth's inner core is more like a ball of butter than a solid metal sphere, a new study suggests
Scientists have long thought intense pressures at the heart of our planet froze atoms solid. It tur…
Marianne Guenot
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What the James Webb Space Telescope's discoveries on another planet mean and don't mean — for the search for alien life
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope revealed that exoplanet K2-18 b may be an ocean world, and there'…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Exposed: The first exoplanet to bare its core only takes 18 hours to complete a year and sizzles at 1,500 degrees Celsius
730 light-years away an exoplanet— a planet that lies outside the Earth’s solar system — is the f…