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More than half of Mars may have ice
According to US scientists, the initial data from the latest image scanning method on Mars shows that more than half of Red planet's surface may have ice. The scientists…
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France discovered adding a new planet
France's Corot space research ship collaborated with some countries to discover a planet for the first time as it passed a distant star. This planet is similar to Jupite…
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Decode the mystery of Mercury's personality
Mercury tiny, the innermost planet of the solar system, seems to have a semi-solid nucleus. The finding may help explain the planet's weak magnetic field. Due to its sma…
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Find fat planet
Watch out at the scale! HAT-P-2b, a round fat planet with such gravitational pull that a person weighing nearly 70 kg on earth when there will weigh more than 1 ton. Thi…
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Discovering planets hotter than 2,000 degrees Celsius
Scientists on May 9 said they have discovered an outer planet. The solar system is about the same size as Saturn, with temperatures of more than 2,000 degrees Celsius, t…
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Laboratory simulating the environment on Mars
The Padoue University Italian researchers have established a laboratory capable of replicating living conditions on other planets.
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New technology helps detect planets outside the solar system
According to US cosmologists, in the next 20 years, new technologies will allow the discovery of Earth-like planets and other forms of life in other solar systems in the…
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'Smart dust' studies the planets
British scientists say that tiny smart devices, spread by the wind, can be helpful in studying other planets.
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Detecting water on extrasolar planets
Astronomers on April 10 announced they first found evidence of the existence of water on an outer planet of the Solar System - planet HD 209458b.
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On other planets, plants may be red or yellow
The law that makes plants on earth appear green can also cause plants on other planets to be yellow, red or green - but rarely blue. Detect n &
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The Global Mars Surveyor is missing due to human error
The Mars Mars Global Mars Surveyor (MGS) has been orbiting the red planet for nine years and lost contact with NASA's aerospace agency since November last year. Accordin…
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Why can't Saturn day be measured?
Strangely, astronomers do not know how many hours a day of Saturn is, because they cannot overcome the obstacle to this giant gas planet.
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Many planets have two suns
The sight of the two suns on a planet is not only on movies. NASA has found that number of binary systems is as much as our single system. NASA's Sptitzer Space Telescop…
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Where did the meteors fall on Earth: Great secret!
50 plans to save the Earth from encountering meteors were launched after 3 days of the planet protection conference. Experts argue, should the location of the meteorite…
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New Mexico still considers Pluto a planet
7 months after being removed from the list of planets by the International Astronomical Association, Pluto found a loyal friend in the state of New Mexico (USA).