Space science
The journey to transport the world's largest camera to the top of the mountain
The 3-ton digital camera overcame the journey by plane and truck to safely reach the observatory on the top of the mountain more than 2,700m high.
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NASA announced the death of super-Earth Vulcan, causing a stir
NASA's new statement abruptly ruled out HD 26965 b - also known as Vulcan - roughly the way the Star Trek planet of the same name disappeared.
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Revealing a super strange planet, thought to only exist in myths
The planet currently holds the record for the largest and lightest ever found.
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Earth appears another 'super ocean of death'?
Scientists may have found where Earth's first super ocean is hiding.
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New discovery on Venus: Two volcanoes erupting lava!
Scientists have discovered two large, winding lava flows flowing from two different corners on Venus.
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Find the 'highway' straight into the space-time tear
The hypothetical structure mentioned by Einstein in 1915 has been confirmed in a space-time tear 10,000 light years away from us.
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Discovered 16 ancient super black holes bombarding the universe
A team of astronomers has investigated where powerful beams from these 10 billion-year-old black holes have been and are heading.
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Discovered that the 3 oldest stars in the universe are 'invading' the Milky Way
Astronomers have discovered three ancient stars that once belonged to the universe's first galaxies
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NASA spacecraft 24 billion km away transmits data after 6 months of problems
NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is back to normal operation after a serious problem last November left the spacecraft unable to transmit data for months.
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In early June, watch 6 planets 'march' in line in the sky
During the first week of June, stargazers have the opportunity to witness the rare event of six planets aligning in the sky.
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Design of self-assembled housing on the Moon
MIT researchers designed self-assembling modular lunar housing to help protect astronauts from cosmic radiation.
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Hundreds of stars suddenly turned into black holes in the sky?
A group of scientists sought the truth about giant and brilliant stars that suddenly mysteriously disappeared from the sky.
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Heliosphere: Invisible Guardian of the Solar System!
Hidden behind the bright light of the Sun, our Solar System is surrounded by an invisible but powerful shield called the Heliosphere.
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A giant structure hidden in deep space is challenging human understanding of the universe
A giant structure in the distant universe is challenging our understanding of how the universe evolved.