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Does the universe have a center?
Unlike what we often hear in sci-fi movies, the universe doesn't actually have a center.
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Unveiling a map of 1.8 billion stars in the Milky Way
The European Space Agency has released a dataset collected by the Gaia Space Observatory, showing many characteristics of large numbers of stars.
Space science
Japan detects more than 20 types of amino acids in material samples from asteroids
On June 6, Japanese officials announced that scientists in this country had detected more than 20 types of amino acids in samples of materials caused by chemicals.
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Why Neptune and Uranus have different colors?
Neptune and Uranus are so similar that scientists sometimes call these distant planets 'twins'. However, these two ice giants have a big difference in color.
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Asteroid the size of a blue whale approaches Earth
An asteroid at least the size of a blue whale will pass by Earth at more than 26,000 km/h, according to NASA.
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Could 4 extraterrestrial civilizations lurk in the Milky Way and attack us?
The Milky Way is home to millions of potentially habitable planets, and about four of them may contain extraterrestrial civilizations.
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Why do scientists take soil on the Moon to bring back to Earth and not on Mars?
Some scientists think that the soil on Mars may be at risk, so they reminded NASA to be cautious.
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Where is the boundary between the universe and the sky?
That's where Earth's atmosphere ends and space begins. But where is it?
Space science
Is it a coincidence: All cosmic black holes look like donuts, regardless of size
According to DigitalTrends, the black hole Sagittarius A* is a supermassive black hole, usually found at the center of most galaxies.
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Discovered the most habitable place in the universe, more than our planet
Earth is the lucky planet in the middle of the rather small habitable zone of the Solar System, but the unluckiest in the universe. The most habitable world might be the…
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Spooky sound from 'cosmic fireball' hitting Earth
Massive CMEs (coronary mass ejections) from the Sun not only set Earth's sky ablaze in colorful auroras, but also emitted wild sounds.
Space science
Earth's twin planet has 'died' of suffocation?
Venus and Earth are considered twin planets, while Earth exists life, Venus turns into a scorching hell.
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After nearly 13.8 billion years of constant expansion, the universe is about to contract?
A new study has shown that the universe is changing and starting to enter the process of receding.
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Water from Earth's atmosphere may have caused rain on the Moon
Over the past billions of years, Earth may have dumped about 3,500 cubic kilometers of water onto the Moon's poles.
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Scary sign: The world around the Earth is shrinking
The endless space around our little Earth may not last forever, but is slowly entering a period of stagnation and degeneration, US researchers have revealed.