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The Milky Way has billions of planets close to Earth
The Milky Way contains at least 46 billion planets of the same mass as Earth. That incredible amount makes the ability to find life on other planets much bigger.
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NASA spacecraft is about to close
The Deep Impact probe spacecraft of the US Space Agency (NASA) will approach the Comet Hartley 2 with the closest distance so far on November 4, NASA scientists batched.
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American aircraft will fly on Mars
American engineers will build a special aircraft capable of flying close to the Martian surface to collect data about the red planet.
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Comet 'encounter' Earth
According to astronomers, comet Hartley 2 and Earth will have a close encounter this month.
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The hottest and fastest planet
Astronomers have discovered a special planet among known planets so far. It is named WASP-12b and the character of this object is the fastest, hottest and closest to a f…
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Close record of Jupiter-Earth: September 20, 2010
Jupiter will be closer to Earth than any encounter that takes place within 60 years (from 1963 to 2022).
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Close up of black spots on the Sun.
American astronomers have published the most detailed images ever made of a sunspot that is larger in diameter than the Earth diameter captured by California's Big Bear…
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Detecting a planet with a tail
Because a planet moves so close to its own star, its atmosphere is sucked out and forms a trail like a comet.
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Discover 9 new planets
The discovery of nine extrasolar planets has challenged current theories about the formation of planets, according to new observations by astronomers.
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Meteors fly close to the earth
A meteorite will fly close to the earth tomorrow but not collide with our planet.
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Science is close to 'cooking' the 'cosmic soup'
Scientists have created in the laboratory a terrible temperature threshold: 4 million degrees Celsius.
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Mysterious objects fly close to the earth
The US Aerospace Agency (NASA) announces an object will approach the Earth today, but does not collide with our planet.
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A meteorite grazes the earth
Scientists were stunned to learn that a meteorite flew nearly 14,000 kilometers from Earth last Friday but they only discovered it before 15 hours.
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A white dwarf will explode in the next few million years
The European Space Agency's (ESA) XMM-Newton telescope has obtained the first close-up image of a white dwarf moving around its twin star ...
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Close up to fix telescope in space
The Atlantis ship astronauts are carrying out five space walks to repair and upgrade Hubble glasses on a height of 610 km from the earth.