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Russia is about to take land on Mars's satellite
Russia's Phobos-Grunt spacecraft and China's Yinghuo 1 will be launched on Mars's Phobos satellite using Zenit missiles at the Baikonur space airport in Kazakhstan on No…
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Meteor shower peaks tonight
Taurid meteor showers appear from late October to mid November. It is listed as a weak meteor shower due to low-frequency meteorites - an average of 7 tracks per hour. T…
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Discover the largest sunspot
The US Aerospace Agency (NASA) yesterday discovered the largest black spot ever seen on the sun, even bigger than the earth.
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New sign of life in Mars
Scientists have discovered that hot water mixed with rocks lies beneath the surface of Mars. They argue that the hot water has been in place for hundreds of millions of…
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Discover the youngest metaphor
Scientists report that they have discovered a hidden planet less than 25 million years old, the youngest ever.
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End of flight simulation 520 days to Mars
According to Reuters, six members of the international crew on November 4 appeared from a Moscow space research facility after spending 520 days of isolation in the fram…
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China established a space post office
A space post office was established in China to facilitate people to send letters to astronauts.
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Earth is about to lose the Moon?
Does the YU55 Asteroid 2005 asteroid, which is about the size of four football fields, can plunge into the moon and destroy the
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America does not hide information about alien creatures
US leaders have never been exposed to extraterrestrial beings and have not kept any credible evidence of the existence of another civilization in the universe, an offici…
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China has a space monitoring station in Australia
With the addition of the Dongara space monitoring station in Australia, China has raised the total number of foreign countries that it has a space station to number 5.
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Satellite Rosat rushes into the earth's atmosphere
The big truck-sized satellite has plunged into the atmosphere and its debris might hit the earth today, the German space agency announced.
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Mankind almost died out more than 100 years ago
Humans are lucky to escape the dinosaur-like end, according to a Mexican expert study.
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How many celestial objects are threatening the Earth?
Experts at NASA claimed they had counted nearly all of the celestial bodies that could endanger our planet.
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Rosat 'satellite may fall to the Indian Ocean'
Fragments of the German satellite may have fallen into the Indian Ocean after it crashed into the atmosphere yesterday.
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Rescue is wrong because the meteor is a plane
A meteor falling into the sea in the UK at high speed made many people think it was an airplane and reported to the authorities.