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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 surface of Mars is still inactive
In the 1890s, when Percival Lowell first saw Mars through a telescope, he discovered some noticeable features on the planet, namely: there were many grooves intersecting…
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Vesta is the newborn planet
The new discovery shows that Vesta is not an asteroid but is a newborn planet exactly from Ancient times, but not undergoing accretion and evolution to join the ranks of…
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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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New discoveries about diaries
The sun and planets are covered by bubbles of charged and magnetic particles called heliosomes. At the edge of the heliosphere, where it collides with intermittent clump…
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Nearly 5,000 planets are threatening the earth
The orbits of meteorites and planets make them occasionally approach the earth to a level of concern. Until now, scientists have found about 30% of this object. The plan…
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Star 'grilled' child planet
The KIC 12557548 star may be spinning its planet at unbelievably fast speeds, causing the
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See before the end of the earth
Using Hubble's telescope to study the atmospheric composition of four white dwarfs, astronomers from the University of Warwick (UK) discovered that most of the material…
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Mars has been covered by water like Earth
Mars was once covered by water like ours today, according to research by scientists at Georgia Tech University (USA). One of the reasons water cannot exist on Mars today…
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Catch the light from super-earth
Light from a planet twice the size of the Earth has reached Spitzer's lens in an event known as astronomical achievement by astronomers. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope c…
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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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Controversy about 'life on Mars'
International scientists and mathematicians claim American robots found bacteria on the red planet in 1976, but the discovery was ignored.
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The truth about 'strange objects' on the surface of Mars
Amateur astronomers have discovered a strange structure protruding from the surface of Mars. It looks like a regular rock; but it is worth mentioning that the rock is pe…
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Aurora on Uranus
For the first time, astronomers captured the aurora image that appeared on Uranus. According to Dailymail, the images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope show that surro…
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'Star' also plays basketball
The astrophysics team at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center (USA) has come up with an interesting hypothesis, whereby billions of stars in the Milky Way have a habit of catc…