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The earth has thousands of moons
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The earth has thousands of moons

Scientists have modeled supercomputers to track the orbit of 10 million meteorites passing through the Earth System - the Moon. The orbits of the Sun with Earth-like orb…

December 17, 2018
Without magnetic fields, Venus still has an aurora
Space science

Without magnetic fields, Venus still has an aurora

Scientists have always assumed that aurora phenomenon cannot appear on Venus because the planet does not have an Earth-like magnetic field, but the results of the recent…

December 17, 2018
Russia will follow the 'threat of earth'
Space science

Russia will follow the 'threat of earth'

Scientists have warned 99942 Apophis - meteorite about 487m across - capable of hitting the earth. In 2029, Apophis will be about 57,600km away from the globe, equivalen…

December 17, 2018
Discover the planet's most planetary star
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Discover the planet's most planetary star

According to research by scientists at the University of Hertfordshire (UK), HD 10180 - a Sun-like star of the Hydrus constellation - may include nine planets orbiting i…

December 17, 2018
Soviet satellites fell to earth
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Soviet satellites fell to earth

Soviet's first fully operational weather satellite Meteor-1, on March 26, fell back to the earth's atmosphere after more than four decades in orbit, the US Strategic Com…

December 17, 2018
Two medium asteroids flutter across the Earth
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Two medium asteroids flutter across the Earth

NASA meteorite project scientists said the two small 2012 FP35 and 2012 FS35 meteorites have flown over Earth at very close distances on the evening of March 26 (interna…

December 17, 2018
Record super-large solar vortex
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Record super-large solar vortex

The image of a tornado 5 times the size of the Earth created by solar energy was recorded by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) camera.

December 17, 2018
America's oldest 'satellite' falls to Earth
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America's oldest 'satellite' falls to Earth

One of the first US satellites named Explorer 8 launched on October 3, 1960 after half a century of orbiting into the dense atmosphere on March 31.

December 17, 2018