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A new planet 6.9 times larger than Earth was recently discovered by none other than a New York teen who has not even graduated high school, but did have the opportunity to intern at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in…
The system known as V Sagittae, or V Sge, is set to become the most luminous point in our galaxy around 2083, astronomers predict. It is dim now but already intense, throwing a stellar wind comparable to the most massive…
Almost everyone agrees that social media is bad. Depending on who you ask, Twitter is either the world’s largest outrage machine or a brain-hacking addiction device or just a den of time-wasting frivolity. Our perceptions of social media have evolved…
New Delhi (Sputnik): India has a rich culture of traditions and festivals: every year over 30 major festivals marking significant days from diverse religions are observed across the nation. On Tuesday, Indians woke up to coloured kites soaring in the…
Astronomers believe that our Milky Way galaxy, approximately 13.6 billion years old, has ingested many smaller galaxies over its lifetime, however, it has previously proved difficult to determine the precise time at which these mergers occurred. A star visible from…
The January 3 assassination of Iranian Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani saw Iran-US tensions soar to new heights, prompting an Iranian missile attack on US forces in Iraq and briefly sparking fears of a full-blown military conflict in the region.…
