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Aliens spraying matter at NASA ship?
Data from the Cassini spacecraft shows NASA is on the right track in its hunt for alien life.
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Why do some cicadas only emerge once every 17 years?
Cicadas, beetles with distinctive chirping sounds, are often associated with hot summer days.
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What if humans explored Saturn?
In 2017, NASA's Cassini probe sent back the closest images of Saturn as it plunged into the planet's stormy atmosphere and yielded some amazing information.
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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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Comet's tail is longer than a billion km long
The ion tail of comet 153P / Ikeya-Zhang is at least 7.5 times the distance between Earth and the Sun, nearly double the previous record of the comet Hyakutake.
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Earth and Moon viewed from a distance of 1.4 billion km
Cassini, a spaceship with the mission to explore Saturn, captures green planets during its last days in outer space.
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In the past 10 years, what have been done in space science?
Let's take a look back at the most outstanding achievements of space science in the period 2010 - 2019, to see how far we have come in exploring the vast vast universe o…
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The cosmic images of NASA make you completely overwhelmed
NASA's impressive image of galaxies, nebulae and countless other objects in the universe as a reminder of the smallness of the Earth compared to the outside world.
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An alien moon that is 'coming of age' produces life
The team from NASA confirmed one of the most beautiful and mysterious moons of the solar system that is entering an era of maturity, ready to start producing life.
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The most crazy 'scientific' discoveries in 2017
2017 is the year of innovations: NASA first put re-usable rockets into operation, patients can start treating cancer using their own cells ...
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The giant ocean on Saturn's moon may contain life
Saturn's moon Enceladus has a giant ocean 2 km deep beneath the southernmost icy surface.
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Hail found from Saturn's belt
In the last days of the mission to fly around Saturn, the Cassini space probe has recorded the flow of molecules scientists call
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Super dust storms show signs of life on Saturn moon
Complex organic molecules hidden in giant dust storms increase the hope of finding life on the moon that NASA has dubbed.
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Beautiful aurora at Saturn's north pole
The images taken from the Hubble Space Telescope of the US Aeronautics Agency (NASA) show that the beautiful aurora of Saturn appears at the North pole both before and a…
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Add a Saturn moon that owns the ocean and ... oxygen
Saturn's Dione moon is one of the targets of NASA's Cassini probe