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The world's largest telescope will be located in Chile
The American University of the Magellan Telescope (GMT) has selected the Las Campanas area in Chile to build a second generation telescope on the ground.
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The Peruvian people are sick with meteorites
Dozens of people in a town in Peru, near Lake Titicaca, reported vomiting and headaches after seeing a sudden formation of a hole, apparently caused by a meteorite last…
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ISS station will be open to the public in 2010
For the public, the International Space Station (ISS) has always been a mysterious area. The station is only designed to welcome American or Russian astronauts to conduc…
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The Phoenix probe is ready to take off on Mars
The Phoenix probe, developed by NASA, in collaboration with France and Canada with a budget of $ 417 million, is about to take off on Mars on August 3, 2007.
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A meteor has just grazed the Earth
On the night of March 31, an asteroid named 2006 VV2 flew across the Earth from a distance of about a hundred
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There is no sea on Mars
The discovery of sediment deposits in the Meridiani Planum area on Mars by Opportunity robot has long been seen as indisputable evidence of the presence of oceans and la…
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March 3 will occur a total lunar eclipse
On March 3, total lunar eclipse will occur (the last time this phenomenon happened 2 years ago). In the United States, the area that is best observed is this coastal are…
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Life on the red planet?
The NASA Research Institute has omitted signs that there is life on Mars during the past few decades. The reason is that the researchers have not observed remote areas b…
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Stars flutter down the house
A 337-gram piece of meteorite fell on a house in New Jersey residential area, 80km south of New York in the past week. The meteorite has a long and hard shape like metal…
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Cheap space service
Having yet to put people on orbit, not yet bringing the remote control robot to Mars, has not yet launched a space probe into the galaxy, but India has been quietly invo…
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Huge meteorite pit
A huge meteorite has been discovered by experts at Boston University (USA) in the desert area Gilf Kebir, West Egypt, thanks to aerial photographs.
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2009: Shoot the Moon to find water
The US plans to spend about $ 80 million to bombard the Moon in order to track traces of water on the planet. The bombardment will take place in 2009. NASA scientists sa…
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America: Meeting obstacles in the project
Landing on the moon - building a base - exploring Mars was the goal launched by the US since 2004. But recently, the US Department of Aerospace (NASA) outlined the plan.
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Detecting huge craters in Egypt
Scientists have discovered an unprecedented large crater in the Sahara desert. The pit mouth is about 31km wide, twice the largest pit ever discovered in this area. The…
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Back to the moon
The US Aerospace Agency (NASA) has revealed a detailed plan in its Return to the Moon program, which focuses on bringing astronauts to her north and south poles. HOUR