Space science
Manufacturing satellites near the Sun.
Britain will lead the production of SolO closer to Earth than any current satellite. Equipped with telescope, camera, SolO will take pictures and perform measurements fr…
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Three astronauts from ISS return to Earth safely
These three included NASA astronaut Dan Burbank and two Russian astronauts, Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin. They set foot on ISS on October 16, 2011. The three a…
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Discover more evidence of life on Mars
According to the Daily Mail (UK) on April 27, US scientists have discovered a large desert of glass on the surface of Mars and this may be evidence that there exists lif…
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Dig gold from meteors
That scenario was unveiled by an American company, supported by renowned director David Cameron and leading executives from Google. Planetary Resources co-founder Peter…
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Detected many strange lava columns on Mars
An American student has discovered lava flows that look like ropes near the equator of Mars. This is the first time to detect such geological characteristics in an extra…
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The world's largest digital camera
LSST's huge telescope is being designed and built by SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in the US. It will provide the ability to capture and observe the night sky in…
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Discover planet like earth
An international group of astronomers has just confirmed the existence of an exoplanet that can meet the perfect conditions for life to exist. The discovery of the plane…
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Russia postponed a year of Moon Luna-Glob mission
The space research institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences said the country's Luna-Glob mission will make an attempt to land the Moon for the first time in 2015, on…
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The world's largest earth observation satellite is missing
The European Space Agency (ESA) announced yesterday that it had lost contact with Envisat, the largest earth-tracking satellite in human history. Envisat operators did n…
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Controversy about 'life on Mars'
International scientists and mathematicians claim American robots found bacteria on the red planet in 1976, but the discovery was ignored.
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Identify the two oldest dwarfs in the universe
Mukremin Kilic and his colleagues identified two of the oldest and closest known white dwarfs ever known from the University of Oklahoma assistant professor of physics a…
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The telescope project generates more data than the Internet
For scientists, to be able to handle all the raw information of the world, they need to study the creation of new computer technologies. The good news is that the IBM gi…
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Russian space hotel joins science
In 2010, Orbital Technologies, a Russian company, once announced plans to build hotels on earth orbit. As planned, the first module of the hotel will be put into orbit i…
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Russia ready for the Google Lunar X-Prize race
The Russian team consists of 30 scientists participating in the Google Lunar X-Prize competition held by Google. Victory will belong to the first team to bring the autom…
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Just appeared solar storm
Early in the morning of April 17, the sun spewed a superheated plasma, forming a fire before exploding and firing into space. The solar storm occurred at 17h45 GMT (ie 0…