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Did you say blue moon? Not happening...

Hyderabad: It's finally here and it has social media abuzz. The much talked about 'blue moon' that many netizens appear to be looking forward to on Saturday, ...
Deccan Chronicle5 hours ago

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'Once in a Blue Moon' Phenomenon to be Observed Today
A Blue Moon will be visible in the night sky on October 31st from around 8:19 pm.
Guwahati Plus8 hours ago

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SPACE – There are an estimated 300 million habitable planets in...

New research using data from the Kepler space telescope estimates that there could be as many as 300 million potentially habitable planets in our galaxy.
AlKhaleej Today11 hours ago

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Earth-Sized Free Floating Rogue Planet Discovered in Milky Way
A new rogue Earth-sized plant has been discovered by scientists at University of Warsaw. This is said to be the smallest free-floating planet found up until now, ...
Gadgets 360Yesterday

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Eerie: Halloween Sky To Get A Rare Blue Moon

video_youtube CBS Los Angeles22 hours ago

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Trick-or-Treat: A cold Halloween is ahead for Maine
PORTLAND (WGME) -- More tricks than treats from Mother Nature to end the month of October in New England -- from snow, to near-record cold! At least ...
WGME20 hours ago

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Where is all the water? These missions will look for signs of life on other worlds
Nasa's SOFIA observatory is just one of the missions looking for potential resources and signs of habitability on the Moon and other worlds.
Livemint1 hour ago

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NASA, Boeing, Jeff Bezos And Elon Musk Have A Lot Riding On US Elections
US President Donald Trump's differences with rival presidential candidate Joe Biden extend far beyond planet earth. President Trump's plans to win the race in ...
NDTVYesterday

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How astronauts celebrate Halloween on ISS sans trick or treat - Halloween on ISS
As the International Space Station (ISS) turned 20, NASA has put together some Halloween celebrations onboard the orbiting laboratory in the past as the world ...
Economic Times7 hours ago
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Space to Ground: How It Started: 10/30/2020
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NASA scientists use Hubble Telescope to study rare metal asteroid with planetary
origins
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope was used to study a 'unique' metal asteroid named 16 Psyche, discovered in 1852, which could have been a protoplanet.
Republic World13 hours ago

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Hubble telescope gives closer look at rare asteroid worth 70,000 times the global economy
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has been used to study a rare metallic asteroid, named Psyche 16, during two points of its rotation. The investigation has given ...
WION Yesterday

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Discovered a 'strange' molecule in Saturn's largest moon

NASA published on its website on Tuesday (27) that, through a gigantic radio telescope in Chile, a team of scientists was able to identify a “weird” molecule in ...
Somag News2 days ago

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Impact craters reveal details of Titan's dynamic surface weathering
Scientists have used data from NASA's Cassini mission to delve into the impact craters on the surface of Titan, revealing more detail than ever before about how ...
Phys.org Yesterday

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NASA celebrates the'big pumpkin' galaxy with a smile on Hubble Wynn

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured two colliding galaxies. Their orange color has earned them the nickname "Great Pumpkin". NASA, ESA and W. Keel.
haveeruonline13 hours ago

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Hubble Captures Luminous Beauty in a Galaxy Collision
Appearing within the boundless darkness of space in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope snapshot, NGC 34 looks more like an otherworldly, ...
NASAYesterday

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NASA’s new rocket would be the most powerful ever. But it’s the software that
has some officials worried.
NASA's newest moon rocket is powered not only by four RS-25 engines that, combined, unleash 2 million pounds of thrust, but by two solid fuel side boosters ...
The Washington Post3 hours ago

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Why Nasa's moonshot, Boeing, Bezos and Musk have a lot riding on US election
US News: WASHINGTON/SEATTLE: US President Donald Trump's differences with rival presidential candidate Joe Biden extend far beyond planet earth.
Times of IndiaYesterday

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A 300-Meter Long, Metal-Packed "Apophis" May Hit Earth in 48 Years

48 years. That's how many years it is estimated Earth has until the Apophis (God of chaos) asteroid is predicted to hit Earth. While it was first calculated that the ...
HYPEBEAST2 days ago

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A 'God of Chaos' Asteroid Could Hit Earth in 2068
Pack your bags, Bruce Willis. A new report suggests an asteroid named after the Egyptian God of Chaos, Apophis, may get uncomfortably close to Earth in 2068.
Popular Mechanics2 days ago

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Telescope captured bloodshot colors of eerie Skull Nebula

Captured in astounding detail by ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), the eerie Skull Nebula is showcased in this new image in beautiful bloodshot colours.
Tech ExploristYesterday

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ESOcast 232 Light: Stars and Skulls
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New work reveals the likely original locations of Saturn and Jupiter
When the sun was young, it was surrounded by a rotating disk of gas and dust from which the planets were born. The orbits of early formed planets were ...
Tech ExploristYesterday

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Australian Scientists Discover a 'Skyscraper' Coral as Tall as the Empire State

Building
video_youtube Bloomberg QuickTake: Now2 days ago

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LIGO & Virgo Announce 39 New Gravitational-Wave Discoveries
Press Release From: Rochester Institute of Technology Posted: Thursday, October 29, 2020. The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration released ...
Space Ref2 days ago

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LIGO and Virgo announce 39 new gravitational wave discoveries during first half of third
observing run
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration released a catalog of results from the first half of its third observing run (O3a), and scientists have ...
Phys.org 2 days ago

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Covid Spreading Faster Than U.K. Scientists’ Worst-Case Scenario

The U.K. coronavirus outbreak is tracking a steeper trajectory than even the government's worst-case scenario, papers released on Friday showed, adding to ...
Bloomberg 22 hours ago

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U.K. Pandemic Spreading Faster Than Worst-Case Scenario, Papers Show

(Bloomberg) -- The U.K. coronavirus outbreak is tracking a steeper trajectory than even the government's worst-case scenario, papers released on Friday ...
BloombergQuint23 hours ago

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NASA's Osiris-Rex tucks asteroid samples into capsule for return to Earth
It will be September 2023 — seven years after Osiris-Rex rocketed from Cape Canaveral —before the samples arrive.
The Hindu9 hours ago

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NASA needs your help unloading items on the moon

The Lunar Delivery Challenge is soliciting ideas on how to transport goods via rovers and unload them onto the moon's surface.
CNET2 days ago

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NASA Challenge Seeks Ideas to Unload Lunar Cargo
NASA is asking teams around the world to submit innovative ideas and concepts to unload cargo from lunar landers in the Lunar Delivery Challenge.
NASAYesterday

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NASA's found the celestial body, 16 Psyche have costly mineral deposits
NASA has found a celestial body , 16 Psyche having mineral deposits of 100 billion U.S.D,100 thousand times more than global economy 2019.
TechGenyz2 days ago

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Scans reveal failed planet-turned-asteroid worth up to $10000 quadrillion
WATCH: The asteroid 16 Psyche, named for the ancient Greek goddess of the soul, is one of the most mysterious objects in our solar system. The wealth is out ...
cjoy.com2 days ago

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Octopuses Can Taste Things Just By Touching Them, Study Finds. Here's How
A new study conducted by researchers at Harvard University reveals the molecular mechanism that makes octopus taste its prey just by touching them with its ...
News18Yesterday

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If you were an octopus, you could taste food with your arms
It's a common assumption among humans that other animals experience the world the same way we do. We taste our food with our tongues, therefore all other ...
The Takeout 23 hours ago

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Strange, Rare Deep Sea Squid Filmed Alive in Wild for First Time Ever
The ram's horn squid was filmed off the coast of Australia by researchers with the Schmidt Ocean Institute.
Newsweek 2 days ago

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Scientists Are Freaking Out Over The First-Ever Footage of This Bizarre Squid
Ram's horn shells are small, delicate spiral structures beachcombers can commonly find throughout the world. Yet despite their ubiquity, the original owners of ...
ScienceAlert 2 days ago

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Coral Reef Taller Than Empire State Building Discovered Off Australian Coast |
TODAY
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Science News Roundup: Australian scientists find huge new healthy coral reef; U.S.
researchers dream of life after Trump and more
Australian scientists find huge new healthy coral reef off northern coast Australian scientists found a detached coral reef on the Great Barrier Reef that exceeds ...
Devdiscourse 17 hours ago

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Assessing the habitability of planets around old red dwarfs
A new study using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope gives new insight into an important question: how habitable are ...

video_youtube Phys.org21 hours ago

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Red dwarfs may be more hazardous to one's health than previously thought
Small red dwarf stars, the most common in the Milky Way, may be more inhospitable than previously thought, thanks to periodic blasts of high-energy ultraviolet ...
Astronomy Now Online20 hours ago

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Scientists find that spiders can hear, even without ears

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These spiders can hear with their legs
For these ogre-faced arachnids, "some of the coolest spiders on the planet," legs do double duty.

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The Philae Lander Has Revealed 'One Final Mystery' From Beyond Its Cometary
Grave
Philae has been dead for years. Its last transmission was received in July 2015; now, its unresponsive form rests under a rocky overhang on comet ...

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Daily briefing: How bots could be influencing the US election
Fake social-media accounts are harder to detect than ever before. Plus: Philae's crash landing reveals the softness of comet 67P, and why schools probably ...
Nature.com2 days ago

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These Ants Spray Their Victims with Acid Before Decorating Their Nests with
Their Skulls
"They're kinda like discarded chicken bones," said Adrian Smith, who studies the Formica archboldi ants.
Newsweek 7 hours ago

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Fossils: Plankton changed diets to survive dinosaur-killing asteroid
To survive the impact that eradicated the dinosaurs 66 million years ago, plankton changed their diets from absorbing sunlight to eating bacteria, a study found.
Daily Mail19 hours ago

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Great White May Be Leading Scientists to a Shark Nursery, As 15-foot Predator
Located Off Bahamas
A 15-foot-long great white shark has been tracked to near the Bahamas and researchers believe the female could soon reveal the site of a great white shark ...
Newsweek 21 hours ago

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Asteroid Over 1,000 Feet Wide Dubbed the 'God of Chaos' Could Strike Earth in
2068, Scientists Warn
Scientists have been closely monitoring the massive space rock since it was discovered in 2004.
Newsweek Yesterday

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Nature: Bisexual female bonobos make lengthy eye contact during sex to form
intimate social bonds
To help forge social bonds with other females, bisexual female bonobos make lengthy eye contact when engaging in sexual acts, a study has reported.
Daily MailYesterday

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DNA tracks mysterious Denisovans to Chinese cave, just before modern humans
showed up
video_youtube Science Magazine2 days ago

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Denisovan DNA Dated in China
LANZHOU, CHINA—Science News reports that Dongju Zhang of Lanzhou University and her colleagues have dated Denisovan mitochondrial DNA found in the ...
Archaeology20 hours ago

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Scientists reveal how octopuses can 'taste' things by touching them
Harvard researchers claim to have uncovered the molecular mechanisms of an octopus's ability to taste by simply touching things with its eight tentacles.
Daily Mail2 days ago

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How octopuses taste with their arms — all eight of them
The arms of an octopus are lined with hundreds of suckers, each of which can act as a taste bud. Now, researchers have found that cells on the suckers' ...
Nature.com2 days ago

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Face mask injected with antiviral chemicals 'deactivates coronavirus'
Scientists in the US have described how a normal face mask injected with antiviral chemicals can 'deactivate' the coronavirus.
Daily Mail2 days ago

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This super-beetle can survive being run over by a car -- and help with engineering
problems
Scientists developing new materials are studying an unlikely source of strength: a beetle that can withstand being run over by a car.
CNN23 hours ago