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Astronomers Find Lightest-Ever Double Neutron Star System
Astronomers using China's FAST telescope found PSR J1856-0039, the lightest double neutron star system ever seen, with an orbit shrinking exactly as…
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ISRO targets October 15-20 launch for NVS-03 satellite
ISRO is targeting October 15-20 for the NVS-03 launch on a GSLV Mk II from Sriharikota to restore NavIC navigation services.
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New feathered dinosaur fossil rewrites flight history
The newly described Norellraptor barsboldi from China suggests dinosaurs and birds evolved flight independently, a study in Nature Communications says.
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Cleanest X-ray view of Milky Way’s central star wreck
Astronomers led by Mayura Balakrishnan have produced the first uncontaminated X-ray maps of Sgr A East, the supernova remnant nearest the Milky…
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Roman telescope’s coronagraph takes first test image
The coronagraph on NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope took its first test image on September 22, confirming the planet-hunting instrument works…
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Crew-13 sets US record with 8-hour trip to space station
SpaceX's Crew-13 docked with the ISS 7 hours 55 minutes after launch, a US record, with Jessica Watkins becoming the first Black…
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Tiangong atom test upholds Einstein’s gravity theory
China's Tiangong space station tested Einstein's weak equivalence principle with rubidium atom clouds, confirming general relativity.
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Rocky planets may have formed 100M years after Big Bang
New simulations suggest rocky planets several times Earth's mass formed just 100 million years after the Big Bang.
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Hubble finds 10-sided wave at Saturn’s south pole
Hubble's OPAL programme discovered a ten-sided wave at Saturn's south pole, published in Science Advances.
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Gujarat startup’s TAPAS-1 is India’s first private thermal satellite
Ahmedabad startup SatLeo's TAPAS-1, launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9, is India's first private thermal infrared camera for tracking heat from space.