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NASA's Kepler Space Telescope discovered the first two large Earth-like planets, orbiting a star like the sun outside the solar system. This is an important milestone in…
American astronomers have discovered 18 new planets of the same size as Jupiter. They turn around stars larger than the sun.
Voyager 1 was launched by the US Aerospace Agency (NASA) in 1977 with Voyager 2 to explore the stars Thien Vuong, Hai Vuong, Moc and Tho.
The researchers created the same temperature and pressure as the earth's crust to study how the diamond was made.
Astronomers have agreed that our Solar System originally formed from four giant planets, including Saturn, Mars, Uranus and Neptune. However, a recent scientific study s…
Tonight, Jupiter will reach its maximum brightness in the year. This is an opportunity for astronomers to see clearly the largest planet of the solar system.
Among the planets in the solar system, Mercury suffers the most miserable fate. Only about 4,880km in diameter and in 4.5 billion years of existence, it constantly burne…
It is difficult to build a spacecraft capable of going to some distant planet, but it is even more difficult to maintain life for astronauts throughout the journey.
Scientists have just added new discoveries about Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun but also contain the most mysteries for humans.
Recently, astronomers from Swinburne Technical University in Melbourne (Australia) discovered a planet made up of diamonds outside the solar system.
The prestigious National Geographic TV channel recently released a short clip explaining the formation of the Earth in the universe.
An unmanned scientific probe from the US Space Agency (NASA) recently went into Vesta's meteorite orbit, to discover the secrets of the formation of the Solar System.
On November 4, 2010, NASA's EPOXI spacecraft, about 450 miles from Comet Hartley 2. This is a small Comet with a diameter of less than a mile, and needs about six and a…
The London Museum of Natural Sciences has hunted a piece of Ivuna Comet from an American collector. Scientists consider it a very unique artifact because it can be the k…
NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 probes after sliding toward stars 9 billion miles from Earth have discovered: Our solar system is surrounded by magnetic bubbles.