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Mars used to have rain
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Mars used to have rain

The study is published in Geophysical Research Letters after the science team explored the topographic structure of the valley system on the red planet. T

December 17, 2018
Redefine the Martian meteorite age
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Redefine the Martian meteorite age

Collaborating with US and British colleagues, scientists at the University of Western Ontario (Canada) said the finding deciphered the puzzle that has long been in the f…

December 17, 2018
Inmarsat's new spacecraft enters orbit
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Inmarsat's new spacecraft enters orbit

On the evening of July 25, the Alphasat 1-XL spacecraft was put into orbit by the Ariane 5 rocket, at Kourou space airport, Guiana, France. The 6.6 ton Alphasat is a coo…

December 17, 2018
Meteors make the Moon destroy Earth?
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Meteors make the Moon destroy Earth?

Scientists are constantly looking for answers to the question: Can asteroids deflect the Moon's orbit and make it crash into the Earth, causing our planet to suffer disa…

December 17, 2018
Find the source of the centaurs
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Find the source of the centaurs

The US Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) said its spacecraft had deciphered the long-standing mystery about small celestial bodies orbiting the sun, between Jupiter an…

December 17, 2018
Contribute ideas to deal with asteroids
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Contribute ideas to deal with asteroids

The US Space and Aeronautics Agency (NASA) received 402 ideas to help track asteroids that could attack the Earth in the future, as well as drag a small asteroid to orbi…

December 17, 2018
Aliens communicate by laser?
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Aliens communicate by laser?

American scientists hypothesize that aliens do not communicate with radio waves but use lasers to transmit data. Scientists hope to find evidence for this hypothesis soo…

December 17, 2018
Giant pit on the sun
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Giant pit on the sun

The sun-observing vision of the glass found a giant hole in the central star's atmosphere, expressed in the form of a dark halo covering nearly a quarter of the sun, con…

December 17, 2018