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Spectacular weather photos around the planet in 2024
Clouds signaling heavy rain, snow-covered countryside, the changing of seasons... are weather scenes captured by some photographers around the world.
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Space science
First 'hybrid' star and planet object revealed outside the Milky Way
Strange objects recently captured by the James Webb Space Telescope could reveal new secrets of the early universe.
Oceanography
The world's largest sardine migration
The annual migration of giant schools of sardines from eastern South Africa to the Indian Ocean is the largest on the planet in terms of biomass.
Space science
US detects radio signals from 7 planets similar to Earth
A new technique for detecting alien radio signals has been applied to the TRAPPIST-1 system.
Space science
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.
Space science
Two 'planets from nowhere' send confusing signals
The surprising truth about a half-star, half-planet object discovered nearly three decades ago has just been decoded.
Biology
Mushrooms - The silent 'architects' of nature
Just take a walk through a forest in America and you will easily come across mushrooms of all shapes, sizes and strange colors.
Environment
Caspian Sea tragedy: The world's largest lake is drying up!
(HIGH) Just a decade ago, when Azamat Sarsenbayev jumped into the Caspian Sea - the largest lake in the world - to swim, he could still feel the brackishness of the wat…
Space science
Is Earth's Moon a 'Stolen Object'?
New research has overturned the theory that the Moon was formed from debris from Earth and the planet Theia.
Space science
A giant planet has just appeared in full surprise
A giant planet named Halla has just appeared, surprisingly around the star Bakedu - which has just exploded into a red giant and should have swallowed the planet.
Space science
An ocean world hidden between Mars and Jupiter?
The largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter may once have had an ocean like Earth.
Conquer Mars
From another planet, NASA spacecraft sends 'will' to Earthlings
The will of InSight - the robotic lander working on the red planet - has just been announced by NASA on Twitter and Facebook.
Scientific works
China builds mega-dam system in the harshest place on the planet
China is building an unprecedented dam system along its longest river.
Discover science
Where do people go after death? Scientists reveal the incredible answer!
So far, humans have lived on this blue planet for hundreds of thousands of years and civilization has lasted for more than 6,000 years.