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China develops materials to build highways on the Moon
The team at Beihang University improved old materials and combined them with 3D printing technology to build roads on the Moon in the future.
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NASA conquers 'golden 9th planet' between Mars and Jupiter
The NASA spacecraft will rely on Mars for extra thrust, helping it to head straight for 16 Psyche - the metal-rich asteroid believed to be the core of the incomplete 9th…
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Operating a cold space accelerator
An accelerator in California operates at temperatures close to absolute zero to generate 1 million X-ray pulses per second.
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Giant blue fireball fell from space to England
The UK Meteor Network (UKMON) has just released a startling image of a blue fireball flying across the sky that their 15 cameras have captured together. It has also just…
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Scientists successfully planted germinating plants on the Moon's soil
Researchers at the University of Florida (USA) have successfully grown Arabidopsis thaliana on lunar soil that was brought back to Earth by the Apollo astronauts.
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Successfully photographed a black hole in the center of the Milky Way
Astronomers on the evening of May 12 released the first image of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* at the center of our galaxy.
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Let's look forward to this weekend's lunar eclipse
You can watch a lunar eclipse that causes the Flowering Moon to turn red on May 15 or May 16, depending on your location.
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830 million-year-old 'mummy' shows where Martian creatures hide
Perfect mummies of ancient microorganisms, which look like they died yesterday, have been revealed in halite crystals from the Protozoic Browne Formation of Central Aust…
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The most powerful 'cosmic flare' is shooting straight at Earth
Following the X-type cosmic flare could be a space bomb - a orbiting mass ejection (CME) - that ignited the Earth. The culprit continues to be our ferocious mother star.
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Humans need matter with negative energy to build a time machine
Humans need matter with negative energy to build time machines. The good news is that quantum theory confirms the existence of that form of matter.
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China is about to plant hybrid seeds in space
About 12,000 seeds brought back to Earth by the Shenzhou spacecraft from the Tiangong space station will be planted for research and breeding purposes.
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The moon once 'disappeared' due to... volcanic eruptions
On some days in May, around the year 1110, the moon completely disappeared from Earth's sky.
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The truth about the controversial Mars-like red sky
Video recorded by locals from the port city of Zhoushan, China, shows the sky turning crimson under a thick layer of fog.
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'Time Gate' reveals the scene of a galaxy containing Earth turned into a monster
What happened to the Earth-bearing galaxy billions of years ago has been reproduced by two galaxies, NGC 1512 and NGC 1510.
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In the universe there is a kind of 'time machine' that can bend both space and time
That is the claim of an international team of scientists when studying supernova 2014C, a type of cosmic monster capable of