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SEARCH ON: NASA scientists will use a new technique to find life on other planets now.

SEARCH ON: NASA scientists will use a new technique to find life on other planets now.

NASA's new quest: Alien life

NASA scientists have used a technique to study distant planets that may one day be used to find life on other planets.

NO SCIENCE FICTION: Kathuria says in five to 10 years, the cost of a suborbital flight will be able to compete with a regular flight for jet plane travel.

Fly from India to US in 45 minutes?

The Silver Dart hypersonic glider will be used to commercialise space travel and revolutionising air travel.

http://www.ibnlive.com/news/fly-from-india-to-us-in-45-minutes/32401-11.html

BRAND NEW: An artist’s concept of Eris that has been named after the Greek Goddess of chaos and strive.

Largest known dwarf planet named Eris

The new planet whose discovery shook up the solar system and led to Pluto's planetary demise has been named Eris.

http://www.ibnlive.com/news/largest-known-dwarf-planet-named-eris/21610-11.html

BIZZARE PLANET: An artist’s illustration of the new planet that the scientists spotted orbiting the sun.

Scientists discover puzzling giant planet

Scientists said that they have spotted an unusually large and light planet orbiting a distant star.

http://www.ibnlive.com/news/scientists-discover-puzzling-giant-planet/21590-11.html

EARTHLY TRAITS: Gassy planets help encourage formation of earthlike planets, the journal, Science, said.

Earth may have space clones: study

Earthlike planets covered with oceans that could harbour life may be found in as many as a third of solar systems.

http://www.ibnlive.com/news/earth-may-have-space-clones-study/20951-11.html

PARANOID ALERT: A prediction based on planetary positions warned of a major earthquake in Assam.

Assam panics after major quake alert

The Indian Govt debunked a prediction based on planetary positions that warned of a possible major earthquake in Assam.

http://www.ibnlive.com/news/assam-panics-after-major-quake-alert/20923-3.html

OVER & OUT: Hundreds of US scientists have challenged the decision  to strip Pluto off its planetary status.

Saving Pluto: scientists fight back

Hundreds of US scientists have challenged the decision to strip Pluto off its planetary status.

http://www.ibnlive.com/news/saving-pluto-scientists-fight-back/20410-11.html

ARYABHATTA

Pluto demotion vindicates Aryabhatta

Indian astrologers say dropping Pluto as a planet endorse mathematical treatises of Aryabhatta and Varahamihira.

http://www.ibnlive.com/news/pluto-demotion-vindicates-aryabhatta/19719-11.html

OVER & OUT: Now ways to remember the names of the planets will have to change.

New ways to learn planet names!

"My Very Excellent Mother Just Sent Us Nine Pizzas." That's just one of the ways people learnt the names of planets.

http://www.ibnlive.com/news/new-ways-to-learn-planet-names/19718-13.html

LOST IN SPACE: Clyde Tombaugh was 24 when he discovered Pluto in 1930. (Photo: AP)

Widow of Pluto discoverer 'shaken'

The widow of the astronomer who discovered Pluto is frustrated by the decision to strip it of its planetary status.

http://www.ibnlive.com/news/widow-of-pluto-discoverer-shaken/19689-11.html

UNIVERSAL APPEAL: Scientists arrived at the decision to demote Pluto on Thursday.

First reactions to Pluto demotion

While some spoke in favour of the decision, others expressed a “universal” disappointment.

http://www.ibnlive.com/news/first-reactions-to-pluto-demotion/19637-11.html

PLANET NO MORE: The International Asronomical Union stripped Pluto of the planetary status.

Pluto demoted from planet status

Leading astronomers approved historic new guidelines under which distant Pluto is no longer defined as a planet.

http://www.ibnlive.com/news/pluto-demoted-from-planet-status/19599-11.html

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