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NASA studied the mysterious Martian atmosphere
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NASA studied the mysterious Martian atmosphere

A new ship is preparing to be launched by the US Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) to the red planet to find out why the planet is stripped of its protective atmospher…

December 17, 2018
The solar field is about to turn extreme
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The solar field is about to turn extreme

The solar field will reverse in the next few months, but this change does not increase extreme solar storms, or other events that cause great harm to the earth and its r…

December 17, 2018
Identify 12 easy-to-exploit asteroids
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Identify 12 easy-to-exploit asteroids

Scottish researchers say they have identified 12 accessible targets in the field of asteroid mining, which can be impacted to pull them close enough to Earth and exploit.

December 17, 2018
Reveal human food to Mars
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Reveal human food to Mars

A group of American experts spent four months living in a small dome-shaped hut on a bare lava field in Hawaii trying to find out what kind of food is suitable for astro…

December 17, 2018
Juno spacecraft completes halfway to Jupiter
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Juno spacecraft completes halfway to Jupiter

The Juno Airship of the US Space and Aeronautics Agency (NASA) has reached a milestone in the solar system's five-year journey to the largest planet.

December 17, 2018
NASA planetarium expert broken
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NASA planetarium expert broken

On August 15, the US Aeronautics Agency (NASA) announced it was unable to repair the space ship Kepler and it would not be able to continue hunting for planets outside t…

December 17, 2018
NASA takes a picture of two colliding galaxies
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NASA takes a picture of two colliding galaxies

For the first time in history, Chandra X-ray Astronomical Observatory of the US Aerospace Agency (NASA) has captured a small galaxy crashing into a large galaxy located…

December 17, 2018
Voyager's controversy
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Voyager's controversy

The US Air and Space Administration's Voyager spacecraft entered the interplanetary space last year, becoming the first artificial object to leave the solar system.

December 17, 2018
Kepler's fireball
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Kepler's fireball

With the newly discovered planet, its year is just one day of working on Earth, about 8:30.

December 17, 2018