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Messenger ship for the first time across Mercury
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Messenger ship for the first time across Mercury

On January 15, NASA's Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) said the Mercury probe called Messenger is currently flying across the planet's smallest planet. Thus, after 33…

December 17, 2018
The planet may have real life
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The planet may have real life

Recently, the magazine Astronomy and Astrophysics (roughly translated as Journal of Astrophysics) published 2 independent and detailed studies on 2 planets of life like…

December 17, 2018
Discover a star with 5 planets
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Discover a star with 5 planets

American astronomers say they have discovered a new planet orbiting the star orbit 55 Cancri located 41 light-years from Earth. This discovery brought the total number o…

December 17, 2018
Can there be life on the Cancer constellation?
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Can there be life on the Cancer constellation?

The latest discovery by Marcy has just been announced last week: it is the fifth planet orbiting a star called 55 Cancri (belonging to the Constellation constellation),…

December 17, 2018
Venus is more like the earth than people think
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Venus is more like the earth than people think

The Venus Express probe has detected several Earth-like features much more Earth-like than the previous conception of scientists, even the bolts that theoretically canno…

December 17, 2018
Asteroids hit Earth: Don't be too afraid ...
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Asteroids hit Earth: Don't be too afraid ...

Meteorites, Asteroids Are there differences? As predicted, in 2036, Apophis asteroids hit the Earth ... Do not panic - astronomers recommend and answer the most frequent…

December 17, 2018
An Earth-like planet is being formed
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An Earth-like planet is being formed

Moving close to a giant warm dust belt, an Earth-like planet is being formed by our 424 light-years. This is the result of tracking the rare images of the young planet c…

December 17, 2018
Decoding unusual paths of the moon
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Decoding unusual paths of the moon

The moon flies around the earth not in a circle, but on an eccentric orbit. Scientists have released a solution to this mystery: It is due to the strong attraction from…

December 17, 2018
The south pole of Hai King is the warmest
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The south pole of Hai King is the warmest

A group of international astronomers who just discovered the south pole of Neptune is much warmer than other places on the planet. This finding is based on data from ext…

December 17, 2018
Mission Don Quijote deflects meteors
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Mission Don Quijote deflects meteors

To protect the planet from the risk of meteorite collisions, the European Space Agency (ESA) is preparing to carry out a mission called Don Quijote to test its ability t…

December 17, 2018
NASA is about to launch the Dawn probe
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NASA is about to launch the Dawn probe

On September 23, the US Air and Space Administration (NASA) announced that the Dawn probe would be launched on Thursday, September 27, to carry out an eight-year mission…

December 17, 2018