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Does 'twin' planets with Earth exist?
In order for a life similar to Earth to exist on another planet, scientists think aliens must also have three vital components: organic structural molecules can form com…
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China successfully launched Tu Nguyen 3 satellite
On January 9, China successfully launched the Tu Yuan III satellite (Ziyuan III) from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, north of Shanxi Province (China).
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Astronomy with new fields: Dark matter
Astronomers have for the first time drawn a map of dark matter with the widest scale ever observed. Their findings reveal a complex cosmic grid of dark matter and galaxi…
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ISS station flies over the Moon
A NASA photographer captured a very unique scene, the International Space Station flew past the Moon. The special thing is that the picture was taken entirely with a nor…
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Alarm on garbage on the universe
The International Year of Astronautics (2011) has just ended, experts in the universe evaluate that the amount of garbage on orbit near Earth has reached an alarming lev…
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Detect large clusters of galaxies
Officially called ACT-CL J0102-4915, the researchers discovered that this cluster of galaxies gave it the nickname
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The piece of the Russian spacecraft will fall into the Indian Ocean
On January 11, the Russian Federal Aeronautics Agency Roscosmos announced the debris of the Phobos-Grunt Automatic Interplanetary Station to probe Mars could fall to the…
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Venus glides across the sun
In June astronomers will have the opportunity to admire the sight of Venus gliding across the sun. The same event will only happen after more than a century.
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Supernova origin
With the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have lifted the long-standing mysterious veil of a star form, or its predecessor, to cause a supernova explosion in a galaxy…
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There are billions of planets like Earth
Up to 10 billion stars in the Milky Way have satellites orbiting in an orbit suitable for life.
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The galaxy has the highest rate of 'production'
One of the farthest galaxies that scientists are studying is speed
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China launched a satellite to investigate land resources
China has successfully launched the remote touch satellite Ziyuan I-02c from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, north of Shanxi Province.
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Russian satellites fall immediately after launch
A Russian telecommunications satellite exploded and fell only a few minutes after being launched by the Soyuz rocket.
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NASA uses a bow and arrow to shoot a comet
NASA's Goddard Space Center is designing small