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China completes the deployment of the global positioning system
On June 23, China completed the deployment of the North China Sea Navigation System (BDS) after its last satellite was launched into orbit the same morning.
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Elon Musk invited users to try satellite Internet
Elon Musk's SpaceX company is looking for people to try out its Starlink broadband satellite Internet service.
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Scientists discovered a merger between a black hole and a mysterious object
Astrophysicists have discovered the strangest radio signal ever, coming from a merger between a black hole and an unknown object.
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Searching for dark matter, scientists accidentally discovered something that could upset the underlying physics
Errors in the recent dark-matter search experiment may open up new avenues for particle physics, but it is entirely possible that these are just the anomalies seen in th…
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Tie asteroids with strings to avoid collision with the Earth
The cable system, formerly used for space elevators, connected the Moon and Earth, and can now be used to tie asteroids together.
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Does the 9th planet actually exist in the Solar System?
Over the years, astronomers have been searching for the existence of the 9th planet in the Solar System.
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These dusty planets can survive life, we just can't see them
Dusty worlds like the desert planet Arrakis in the Dune novels are probably quite common in the universe. Some of them, which have large amounts of dust in the atmospher…
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New exoplanet discovered around red dwarfs
Scientists found exoplanets the size of Neptune orbiting the star AU Mic, 32 light-years from Earth.
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Discovered a purple moon may be full of extraterrestrial beings
Neptune's beautiful moon, Neptune, shines a light purple through the lens of a NASA spacecraft, can possess an ocean of life.
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Elon Musk's super project could cause the telecommunications industry to collapse
Starlink's goal of bringing Internet connections around the world could threaten traditional Internet providers.
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What would happen to the Earth if Comet Halley crashed into the Moon?
Named after British astrophysicist Edmund Halley, the Halley Comet is one of the most famous comets in the history of astronomy.
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Quasars containing black holes are 1.5 billion times more massive than the Sun.
Astronomers found the largest quasar ever in the early universe, more than 13 billion light-years from Earth.
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China turns Moon dust into 22 times stronger concrete
Chinese researchers have developed a new construction material from Moon dust and are 22 times stronger than concrete.
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Pluto has a vast ocean for the past 4.5 billion years
Image analysis from NASA's New Horizons mission shows that Pluto is very hot when it is first formed. This will create liquid water that exists to this day.
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2 super Earths and 1 'ghost of the planet' live near us
Gliese 887, one of the brightest red dwarfs seen from Earth, is harboring two large planets in the region of life.