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Take photos of mountains on the dwarf planet closest to Earth
Dawn is a robot spacecraft launched by NASA to explore the two largest dwarf planets in the asteroid belt, Vesta and Ceres.
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450km wide crater on Saturn moon
Scientists believe that this crater shows below the thick ice is a melting fireball.
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Detecting the outer three planets about the size of the Earth
The planets were discovered by NASA's Kepler spacecraft, by tracking the obscured light of the host star as the planet passes through the star's bright region.
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The mystery of crazy lightning storms on Jupiter has a solution!
In the solar system, Jupiter is the largest planet. Although it is just a gas sphere, its mass is equal to the total mass of all other planets in the solar system combin…
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Foreign planet where a year lasts 19.5 days
Indian scientists point out an extraterrestrial planet orbiting a star similar to the Sun 600 light-years from Earth, Science Alert reported on June 11.
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Is the warp drive engine jumping straight to another planet real?
The warp engine - Warp drive is an imaginary spacecraft propulsion that allows us to travel faster than light (FTL - faster-than-light), most notably in the Star Trek se…
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Plan to conquer human Venus
Venus has a very harsh environment but the space 50km above the ground can be suitable for people to live.
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Jeff Bezos: People will have to leave Earth, work on the Moon
In the coming years, many heavy industries will be moved to other planets like the Moon and even asteroids.
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Fluttering new evidence of the existence of the 9th planet
In the new study, the researchers suggest that the behavior of the Trans-Neptunian astronomical object may be due to the gravity of the ninth planet.
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Mysterious planet of the solar system
Mercury is the first planet from the sun, and the smallest of 8
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9th planet: 1 year long with 20,000 years Earth?
Since Pluto is no longer considered a planet, scientists agree that our Solar System has 8 planets.
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What happens if Jupiter doesn't exist?
Many scientists believe that the Earth was formed and protected from some Jupiter collisions.
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More than 200,000 stars appeared in NASA photos
The Exoplanet Satellite Survey (TESS) sent the first shot when it was about 8,000 kilometers from the Moon, Space reported on May 18.
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Jupiter and Venus distort the orbit of the Earth
Scientists have confirmed a long-held hypothesis, the Earth's trajectory distorted by the gravity of Jupiter and Venus according to the 405,000-year cycle.
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Super storm is enough to swallow 4 Earths
Images of Jupiter - the solar system's largest planet - always show beautiful lines and a prominent red spot.