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Ancient comet explosion turned the world's driest desert into glass
The dark glass fields that dot the world's driest Atacama Desert were created by a comet that exploded about 12,000 years ago.
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The Spitzer Space Telescope captures the image of a nebula that looks like the monster Godzilla
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope sent back to Earth a stunning image of a dust cloud thousands of light-years away.
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Bad news about 'alien signal' from 4.2 light years from Earth
Scientists have just given the final answer to the signal that stirred astronomers in 2019 from the Proxima Centauri star system, which has a planet thought to be habita…
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NASA plans to have the first unmanned flight to the Moon in 2022
NASA said it has completed the process of putting Orion on the SLS space launch system and is expected to have the first unmanned flight to the moon in 2022.
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Unique idea wins NASA space food contest
3D printed steaks, insect proteins, mushrooms are some of the unique ideas among the winners of NASA's space food competition.
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Solar storm with speed of 4 million km/h makes landfall on Earth
NASA satellite captures the moment when a solar storm erupts violently, making the aurora on Earth more brilliant in time for Halloween.
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Image of the Earth seen from the Moon's south pole
NASA hopes astronauts will be able to see Earth first-hand from the Moon's poles by the end of the 2020s.
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Discovered a planet that lost its entire atmosphere after a huge meteorite impact
Astronomers have discovered for the first time a planet that lost its entire atmosphere after an extremely large meteorite impact.
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Shiver what can swallow the Earth right in the Solar System
Jupiter's red monster can be more than 480 km deep and more than enough to swallow the Earth.
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Chinese spacecraft rewrites the geological history of the Moon
Rock samples collected by the Chang'e 5 spacecraft reveal volcanic activity on the Moon lasting nearly a billion years longer than previously thought.
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'Halloween Fireball' gets stronger in the sky, may peak tonight
Last Halloween night, because there was no moon, many people were able to admire the performance of Venus, Jupiter, Saturn and sometimes a Halloween fireball.
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Terrifying explosion 'Camel' - monster has just torn the galaxy in front of Earth people
Rising from the past several billion years ago and entering the telescope, the Camel shows its formidable power when it explodes and tore apart an entire galaxy.
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Astronauts make cakes from chili successfully grown on the international space station
The US space agency announced that they have successfully grown plants in space and astronauts have used the first chili peppers as a filling.
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Strange objects in the universe keep exploding time and time again
Astronomers have tracked a mysterious cosmic object that performed 1,652 bursts of energy in a short period of time.
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Discover a new planet, easy to live like... Europe?
A new planet in the form of Little Neptune could have a cool temperate climate and liquid water - the potential for life.