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Capture the world's largest satellite image missing
The European Space Agency (ESA) said that on April 15, the French Pleiades observing satellite captured the image of Envisat's largest observation satellite, lost contac…
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The meteorite mining company was born
A series of top US entrepreneurs set up a company to exploit precious metals and water on 9 meteorites near the earth. Planetery Resources, the name of the new company,…
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Asteroids explode in California sky
The halo is thought to have been created by a small asteroid that is hitting the Earth's atmosphere at a speed of 15 km / s (54,000 km / h), turning it into a blazing fi…
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The Earth suffers from dozens of collisions with asteroids
One of the most popular scientific hypotheses today is that, 65 million years ago, an asteroid about 10 kilometers in diameter had hit the earth causing an extinction fo…
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Found a meteorite pattern falling in America
On April 26, US scientists announced that small meteorite fragments found in the northern state of California were part of a giant fireball that exploded over the weeken…
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Manufacturing satellites near the Sun.
Britain will lead the production of SolO closer to Earth than any current satellite. Equipped with telescope, camera, SolO will take pictures and perform measurements fr…
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Three astronauts from ISS return to Earth safely
These three included NASA astronaut Dan Burbank and two Russian astronauts, Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin. They set foot on ISS on October 16, 2011. The three a…
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Dig gold from meteors
That scenario was unveiled by an American company, supported by renowned director David Cameron and leading executives from Google. Planetary Resources co-founder Peter…
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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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The world's largest earth observation satellite is missing
The European Space Agency (ESA) announced yesterday that it had lost contact with Envisat, the largest earth-tracking satellite in human history. Envisat operators did n…
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Russian space hotel joins science
In 2010, Orbital Technologies, a Russian company, once announced plans to build hotels on earth orbit. As planned, the first module of the hotel will be put into orbit i…
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Just appeared solar storm
Early in the morning of April 17, the sun spewed a superheated plasma, forming a fire before exploding and firing into space. The solar storm occurred at 17h45 GMT (ie 0…
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The spectacular beauty of 'cosmic treasures'
The mysterious meteorite is named Fukang. When it falls to Earth, its appearance is not special. Later, scientists discovered
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Life migrates from the earth
For years, scientists have hypothesized that bacteria might have been brought to earth on a comet or meteorite, seeding life today. But the panspermia theory poses the o…
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Large meteorite by bus has just approached the Earth
On Sunday (1/4), the 2012 EG5 meteorite with a diameter of 46m flew over Earth at a distance of 230,000km - closer than the distance between the Moon and Earth, but does…