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What would happen if the Moon got closer to the Earth?
The Moon is the Earth's only natural satellite. In fact, the Moon orbits the Earth at a steady speed of about 1km/s.
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Are there many planets with life?
We know that one in five stars has an Earth-like planet. There are 200 billion stars in our galaxy alone.
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Discovered a place more habitable than Earth in the Solar System
A planet has just been confirmed as being as promising a place for the origin of life as the early Earth, if not more so.
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Extremely rare new planet revealed, 1 year equals 21 Earth hours
TOI-3261b is located in the constellation Hydrus and belongs to a class of planets that were thought impossible to form.
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How many planets are there in the universe?
Astronomers estimate there are about 100,000 trillion billion planets in the universe based on the assumption that every star has a planet orbiting it.
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What matter on Earth can get close to the Sun without melting?
Many people might think that tungsten is the substance with the highest melting point on our planet, but that is not the case at all.
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Identify places that may be flooded with aliens
American scientists have identified special star systems where up to one-third of the planets could be filled with water and life, not just a single Earth like in the So…
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Strange object the size of Earth appears on Jupiter
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, planetary scientists observed dark oval-shaped objects appearing on Jupiter.
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On Earth, a compass always points north – but where does it point in space?
On Earth, our planet's magnetic field points north, but in space, things are a bit more complicated.
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The Truth About the Discovery of 20,000 Prehistoric Pyramids on Venus
There are theories that in the 1990s, the Soviet Union discovered about 20,000 pyramid-shaped ancient city ruins on Venus, which appeared to have been abandoned long ago.
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The mystery of lonely planets as big as Earth wandering in the Milky Way
An upcoming NASA telescope could discover more than 400 lonely Earth-sized planets wandering the Milky Way.
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Jupiter is a gas planet, so if a person stood on the surface of Jupiter, would he fall straight into the core?
Jupiter's atmosphere is divided into four layers: the troposphere, stratosphere, thermosphere, and exosphere. Each layer has its own function and role in Jupiter's activ…
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The truth about the service of naming a 'star' after your idol
In fact, the practice of paying for planet names has never been recognized.
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What is a spacecraft 23 billion kilometers from Earth doing?
The twin spacecraft Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 continue to explore the universe 45 years after launching from Earth and 22 light hours away from the planet.
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Top 6 unusual natural phenomena that will happen in the near future
Here is a list of the most unusual and rare natural phenomena we will see this century as predicted by astronomers.