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NASA chooses 8 astronauts for new space mission
The US Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) said on June 17 that it has recruited eight new astronauts for future space missions, including a flight to an asteroid and ev…
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Mining ore on asteroids
The idea of an extraterrestrial robot mining mine is burning in the minds of scientists, who think that this is not a difficult goal to swallow in the near future.
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Photographing the planet 300 light years from Earth
The European telescope has captured an image of an asteroid circling the central star 300 light-years from Earth, equivalent to 3.7 billion round-trips to the moon.
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Set up an asteroid pedigree near Earth
The US Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) said data transmitted from the WISE spacecraft provided a new genealogy of belt asteroids between Mars and Jupiter.
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Mars has been 'attacked' more than 200 times in a year
It is estimated that each year the Red Planet suffers more than 200 events
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Russia proposed to shoot down asteroids named 1999 RQ36
Russian scientists have proposed shooting down the 1999 RQ36 asteroid, after assuming that this solar-heated asteroid could change its orbit and fall to Earth in 2182.
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The terrifying asteroid is about to hover near Earth
An asteroid nine times larger than the yacht Queen Elizabeth 2 is about to approach the Earth later this month.
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Create a protective belt around the Earth
Russian scientists are studying a project to create an orbital belt to protect the Earth from dangerous collisions with asteroids.
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Found evidence in the Tunguska case?
A Russian scientist has claimed to have found the first meteorite in a mysterious explosion in Siberia in 1908. The Tunguska event in June 1908 was one of the mysterious…
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Successfully try the device
A infrared sensor device funded by NASA has been successfully tested. It is believed to help NASA enhance the ability to detect and track comets, asteroids ...
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NASA recruited a new
The central tool of the new mission will be the TESS space observatory, abbreviated from the Transit Planet Satellite Satellite, scheduled to orbit in 2017.
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Discovered a $ 5.3 million meteorite in the field
Few doubts, the rock lying between the farm of a Spanish farmer during the past 30 years is the remains of an asteroid that plunges into the earth since ancient times, w…
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Asteroids 'baked' Earth
A collision with an ancient asteroid may have triggered a global fire storm, burning each tree and grass on the surface of our planet.
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NASA admits helplessness against meteors
Officials from the US Aeronautics Agency (NASA) concede there is nothing to be done if the meteorite on the collision with the Earth within 3 weeks.
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Radar detects a meteorite pit under Russian lake
Thanks to radar technology, an asteroid crater has been exposed at the bottom of Lake Chebarkul, after experts attempted to find a meteorite collision point in Russia wi…