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Humans are living on a super-Earth without a 'Ring Sun'?
Dense rings of dust around a Sun that look nothing like the Sun today have prevented our planet from evolving into a super-Earth.
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Photo of the 'flame nebula' more than 1,300 light-years away
The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has released a stunning update of the nebula NGC 2024 in the constellation Orion.
Environment
The 'ghost of the desert' is eating through the ozone layer, making the earth 'difficult to breathe'?
Desert dust - fine and capable of reaching high into the sky like ghosts - has the ability to destroy many pollutants, but also silently causes terrifying effects.
Environment
Dust storm like 'doomsday' hits town in Australia
A terrible dust storm hits an Australian town and creates a scene like
Conquer Mars
NASA robot captures unusual sunset on Mars
The Martian sunset in the new image of the Perseverance robot does not have the usual blue color because the atmosphere contains less dust.
Space science
The world's most bizarre creatures series born from 2 alien objects?
A new study from Denmark has deepened the hypothesis of a bioburden 467 million years ago and a link between the two asteroid collisions.
Conquer Mars
Scientists study and predict the weather on Mars
When scientists study missions to nearby planets, they need accurate weather forecasts. Otherwise, the trips could turn out to be 'disastrous'.
Space science
The Spitzer Space Telescope captures the image of a nebula that looks like the monster Godzilla
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope sent back to Earth a stunning image of a dust cloud thousands of light-years away.
Environment
What caused the giant dust storm 'Godzilla'?
After more than 50 years, 'Godzilla' comes back and is becoming an obsession for people living along the southern coast of the United States.
Space science
These dusty planets can survive life, we just can't see them
Dusty worlds like the desert planet Arrakis in the Dune novels are probably quite common in the universe. Some of them, which have large amounts of dust in the atmospher…
Space science
China turns Moon dust into 22 times stronger concrete
Chinese researchers have developed a new construction material from Moon dust and are 22 times stronger than concrete.
Space science
Discovered organic molecules that can make life in the central Milky Way
What are the secrets that we still don't know?
Environment
Huge dust blocks fly over 3,200km at sea
Large amounts of dust from the African desert are carried by the wind across the Atlantic Ocean, contributing to the creation of beaches and fertile soil.
Space science
NASA robots take pictures of Earth and Venus from Mars
The dense dust in Mars' atmosphere makes the Earth and Venus look like tiny dots in a camera photo of the Curiosity robot.
Space science
Discovered that the brown dwarf closest to Earth contains the dust disk
Astronomers have announced the discovery of a brown dwarf star 332 light-years from Earth that could support planet formation.