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Summary of Elon Musk's plan to send 1 million people to Mars
Elon Musk announced his upcoming goal is to build 1,000 Starship spacecraft and send 1 million people to Mars by 2050.
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If Earth is destroyed, will we be able to migrate to another planet?
About 5 billion years from now, the Sun will leave the main sequence and become a red giant.
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New evidence of Earth's ability to 'reverse'
Earth's protective crust has undergone an unusual change over the past two centuries, which may affect the planet's magnetic polarity reversal.
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China publishes the most detailed map of the Moon
China has released a new topographic map of the Moon with the most detailed 1:2,500,000 scale to date, revealing a variety of rocks and impact craters.
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1.4 billion km away, NASA's billion-dollar ship sent back a mysterious photo that surprised the scientific world
What is so special about this mysterious photo that surprised scientists?
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Mysterious repeat radio flash, 3 billion light-years from Earth
Astronomers have detected a mysterious repeating series of radio bursts (FRBs), emanating from a dwarf galaxy 3 billion light-years from Earth.
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Mysterious moon has hundreds of times more 'poisonous gas' than Earth: What if it catches on fire?
Unexpectedly, the moon Tithane, Saturn's moon, contains more combustible gases than Earth. However, if they accidentally caught fire, what would be the result?
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Probe finds 'strange' thing on the back of the Moon, experts step in and successfully decode it
The moon is not a very big planet, why can it contain such a large amount of this? This question has made scientists determined to find an answer.
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Devil's star: New cosmic object shakes the scientific world
A ghost star refers to a new, strange, small but extremely massive object that scientists can't yet be sure of, blocking the light from a distant star from reaching Eart…
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Aliens may be walking on a Dyson sphere orbiting a white dwarf
So far no one has found evidence of intelligent aliens elsewhere in the universe.
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Can plants 'live' on the Moon?
For the first time, plants grown above ground can germinate and grow in soil taken from the Moon in a landmark test just published.
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In 1994, humanity once faced extinction but escaped thanks to this 'mysterious hero'
According to scientists, this 'mysterious hero' has saved the Earth and humanity from collisions many times, not only in 1994.
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NASA is about to study the mysterious rock dome on the Moon
NASA will control the probe to explore the rock dome made of magma on the Moon that has a different structure from the surrounding area.
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China sends 3 astronauts to new space station
On June 5 (local time), China launched the Shenzhou-14 spacecraft, bringing 3 astronauts to the Tiangong space station to carry out a 6-month mission on this space stati…
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China conquers space: Towards a great power!
Three Chinese astronauts have just been sent into space, starting a six-month mission to work on the country's new space station.