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Found a contrasting version of the Earth, a year is only 8 hours long
GJ 367b is one of the smallest planets discovered and has incredible properties, like an iron bullet and completes an orbit around its parent star in just 8 hours.
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Sun 'pours water' on Earth, creating oceans?
The sun, or specifically the solar wind, can be the source of seeds for the Earth's oceans, and the condition for all living things and ourselves to be born.
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Unexpected discovery of 7 planets 'peaceful' than Earth
Scientists have solved the mystery behind the harmonious dance of 7 planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system, all of which are like Earth.
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The 'graveyard' where many planets were torn to reveal the unexpected
Unseen, unimaginable things have revealed themselves in a vast cosmic graveyard with 23 white dwarf stars and countless rubbles that are torn planetary fragments.
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Varahamihira and the prediction of finding water on Mars 1,500 years ago
There is now a lot of scientific evidence that water exists in small reserves on Mars. This was predicted by Varahamihira - an Indian sage more than 1,500 years ago.
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NASA discovers more than 300 new planets thanks to Machine learning technology
With an operating system based on Machine learning technology, 301 new planets have been discovered by NASA.
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The discovery of the planet took only 3.2 days to orbit the host star
Astronomers find an exoplanet like
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Gravitational waves: The 'landscape' changer of cosmic evolution
In the process of discovering to shed light on cosmic evolution, life and death on planets, astronomers have discovered a record number of gravitational waves.
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NASA/ESA telescope captures strange X-rays from 3 'hell' planets
NASA's Chandra X-ray Telescope and ESA's XMM-Newton satellite investigated anomalous X-ray activity from three white dwarfs and discovered three objects that were planet…
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Extraterrestrial supervolcano shoots rocks all the way to Earth
A large portion of the 317 Martian meteorites that have fallen to Earth may have come from the eruption of the alien supervolcano Tharsis 1 million years ago.
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What will America's space science look like in the next 10 years?
The latest survey of American astronomy and astrophysics from 2022 to 2032 recommended that NASA create a new program to develop several large telescopes.
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Top 8 destinations that promise a boom in Mars tourism in the future
Mars is a planet of spectacular contrasts - the largest giant volcanoes in the solar system, the deep valleys.
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New telescope will change the way we observe the universe
Scheduled to launch in December, the James Webb telescope is expected to answer people's questions about how the universe formed and life beyond Earth.
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Discovered a series of utopian planets with a ground like... eggshells
The eggshell planet will have a shell identical to some of the lowlands on Venus.
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Interesting things about the moons in the Solar System
Mars - the planet closest to Earth, has 2 moons. Pluto - a dwarf planet with 5 moons.