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Good news for the alien life hunt: Buried oceans may be common on icy exoplanets

Finding liquid water on exoplanets is 100 times more probable than previously thought, boosting the odds of alien life significantly, a new study suggests.

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Europe will issue new ExoMars lander contract in a few months for beleaguered Mars rover (exclusive)

The European Space Agency's director general, Josef Aschbacher, says the member states are moving ahead with a lander design contract to bring a life-seeking rover to Mars.

Space

Astronomers Discover A Weird "Mirror Planet" With Clouds of Glass and Titanium

An exoplanet with clouds of glass and metal reflects 80% of the starlight that hits it.

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James Webb Space Telescope time travels billions of years in amazing 3D visualization (video)

A new 3D journey from the James Webb Space Telescope through over 5,000 galaxies demonstrates a 13.4 billion-year journey back in time.

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Webb Space Telescope spots most distant black hole yet. More may be lurking

Astronomers have discovered the most distant black hole yet using NASA's Webb Space Telescope

The Independent UK

How rivers on Titan and Mars flow

There are only three worlds in our solar system with rivers: Earth, Mars and Titan

Salon

Colliding black holes could hide in the light of superbright quasars

Only an extreme environment could hide the collision of two stellar-mass black holes — and feeding supermassive black holes could provide such cover.

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Second moonshot: on the Chandrayaan-3 mission on July 14

The Chandrayaan-3 mssion gives India a chance to lead the world’s response to the moon’s growing importance in the scientific and the political milieus

The Hindu

The 1st light to flood the universe can help unravel the history of the cosmos. Here's how

Just as Darwin used the fossil record to piece together the evolution of life on Earth, scientists can use a "cosmic fossil," the universe's first light, to understand how the cosmos evolved.

Space

With more fuel, fail-safe measures, Chandrayaan-3 to leap towards moon on July 14

Chandrayaan-3 set for launch on July 14, is loaded with more fuel, a slew of safety measures and a bigger landing site, with ISRO saying it has opted for a “failure-based design”

The Hindu

Chandrayaan-3: A guide to India's third mission to the moon

Chandrayaan-3 is the third Indian mission to the moon. It aims to deploy a lander and a rover to the lunar surface for 14 Earth days to gather science and imagery.

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The Harvard and Papua New Guinea interstellar meteor row

The removal of fragments from a possible interstellar meteor has sparked a row between scientists from Harvard and Papua New Guinean authorities.

The Week

Titan sub passengers not told of emergency procedures 'as they'd all be dead'

Paul-Henri Nargeolet allegedly shared that Titan passengers weren't informed about emergency procedures on the submersible because they'd "all be dead before we know it," according to journalist Arnie Weissmann

Daily Mirror

Boom! Watch an inflatable space habitat explode during testing (video)

Lockheed Martin recently completed a successful burst test of the company's sub-scale inflatable space habitat, pushing past safety limits to explode the module at the company's Colorado facility.

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James Webb Space Telescope spots violent collision between neutron stars

The James Webb Space Telescope traced the second-brightest gamma-ray burst ever seen to a kilonova, a collision between two neutron stars — an event believed to forge heavy elements like gold.

The Hindu

Daily Quiz | On lunar missions

The Hindu’s Daily Quiz on lunar missions

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See the Red Planet Mars shine beside the blue star Regulus tonight

Look to the western skies on Monday evening (July 10) to see the Red Planet, Mars, shining steadily above the twinkling blueish star Regulus.

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Is the puzzling star Betelgeuse going to explode in our lifetime after all?

A new unpublished study is making waves on the internet, claiming that one of the brightest stars in the night sky might die in a spectacular explosion within our lifetime.

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ISRO to transfer SSLV to private sector

The ISRO will soon transfer its Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) to the private sector, after conducting two development flights of the rocket that seeks to provide on-demand services to put satellites weighing up to 500 kg in a low-earth orbit.

Space

The climate of Mars changed dramatically 400,000 years ago, Chinese rover finds

A shift in Mars' climate 400,000 years ago produced a change in wind direction that left its mark in the erosion of bright sand dunes.

Inverse

Scientists Find that Water May Have Flowed on Mars Recently — But There’s a Twist

As seen on Earth, liquid water leads to life. Mars gullies could form from meltwater, but only during certain times in the planet's orbit.

Space

James Webb telescope detects the earliest strand in the 'cosmic web' ever seen

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a clump of ancient galaxies that may be the oldest strand of the "cosmic web" ever detected.

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Huge granite 'body' on far side of the moon offers clues to ancient lunar volcanoes

Scientists have discovered granite created by magma deposits beneath an ancient lunar volcano that erupted around 3.5 billion years ago on the far side of the moon.

The Hindu

Voyager 2’s closest approach to Jupiter

On July 9, 1979, Voyager 2 made its closest approach to the largest planet in our solar system. Now in interstellar space, Voyager 2 altered some of our ideas about the Jovian system. A.S.Ganesh tells you more about Voyager 2 and its tryst with Jupiter…

Space

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches for record-breaking 16th time, lands on ship at sea

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched on its record-breaking 16th mission Sunday night (July 9), sending 22 of the company's Starlink 'V2 Mini' satellites to orbit.

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