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Planet X
At a distance too far to be caught in the sights of earth-glass telescopes, planet X can create gravitational forces acting on icy celestial bodies passing by Neptune, h…
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The mysterious planet in the solar system
Kuiper belt is made up of ice objects and lies just outside the orbit of Neptune. Rodney Gomes, an astronomer from the Brazilian National Observatory, said that with mod…
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Discover planet like earth
An international group of astronomers has just confirmed the existence of an exoplanet that can meet the perfect conditions for life to exist. The discovery of the plane…
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What if you fell into a black hole in the universe?
Black holes are one of the strangest spaces of the vast universe. Because of its large size it distorts space and time, and because of its dense material density its min…
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Unusual tornadoes appear on the surface of the Sun.
Sun researchers from the Aberystwyth University of England have just discovered that in our light bodies there are giant tornadoes. The size of these tornadoes is severa…
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New map of star systems
NASA has announced a new map with more than 560 million stars, galaxies and asteroids, many of which have never been known before.
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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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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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The cause of the Scheila meteorite explosion
On December 12, 2010, astronomers made a notable discovery: an asteroid named Scheila changed its shape and appeared a trail of light behind it, which looked like regula…
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Meteors are about to bring gold to earth
In early October, a massive meteor shower will descend on Earth, brought by the comet Giacobini-Zinner, flying close to our planet.
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For the first time, the planet revolves around two stars
An American space telescope has just found a planet revolving around two stars, a phenomenon that is only observed in fantasy movies.
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Piece of comet helps discover Earth origin
The London Museum of Natural Sciences has hunted a piece of Ivuna Comet from an American collector. Scientists consider it a very unique artifact because it can be the k…
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Live without the sun
Scientists at the University of Chicago (USA) have calculated that life can exist on a planet for billions of years without a star providing direct warmth.
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The first astronaut is about to fly into space
Robonaut 2 robot, often called affectionately R2, will become the world's first astronaut robot ...