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Dig gold from meteors
That scenario was unveiled by an American company, supported by renowned director David Cameron and leading executives from Google. Planetary Resources co-founder Peter…
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Discover planet like earth
An international group of astronomers has just confirmed the existence of an exoplanet that can meet the perfect conditions for life to exist. The discovery of the plane…
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The world's largest earth observation satellite is missing
The European Space Agency (ESA) announced yesterday that it had lost contact with Envisat, the largest earth-tracking satellite in human history. Envisat operators did n…
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Russian space hotel joins science
In 2010, Orbital Technologies, a Russian company, once announced plans to build hotels on earth orbit. As planned, the first module of the hotel will be put into orbit i…
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Just appeared solar storm
Early in the morning of April 17, the sun spewed a superheated plasma, forming a fire before exploding and firing into space. The solar storm occurred at 17h45 GMT (ie 0…
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The spectacular beauty of 'cosmic treasures'
The mysterious meteorite is named Fukang. When it falls to Earth, its appearance is not special. Later, scientists discovered
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Life migrates from the earth
For years, scientists have hypothesized that bacteria might have been brought to earth on a comet or meteorite, seeding life today. But the panspermia theory poses the o…
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Large meteorite by bus has just approached the Earth
On Sunday (1/4), the 2012 EG5 meteorite with a diameter of 46m flew over Earth at a distance of 230,000km - closer than the distance between the Moon and Earth, but does…
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The earth has thousands of moons
Scientists have modeled supercomputers to track the orbit of 10 million meteorites passing through the Earth System - the Moon. The orbits of the Sun with Earth-like orb…
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Unusual tornadoes appear on the surface of the Sun.
Sun researchers from the Aberystwyth University of England have just discovered that in our light bodies there are giant tornadoes. The size of these tornadoes is severa…
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Without magnetic fields, Venus still has an aurora
Scientists have always assumed that aurora phenomenon cannot appear on Venus because the planet does not have an Earth-like magnetic field, but the results of the recent…
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The rebellious powers 'Law on cosmic conduct'
The fact that the leading cosmopolitan powers do not accept the
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Russia will follow the 'threat of earth'
Scientists have warned 99942 Apophis - meteorite about 487m across - capable of hitting the earth. In 2029, Apophis will be about 57,600km away from the globe, equivalen…
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Discover the planet's most planetary star
According to research by scientists at the University of Hertfordshire (UK), HD 10180 - a Sun-like star of the Hydrus constellation - may include nine planets orbiting i…
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Soviet satellites fell to earth
Soviet's first fully operational weather satellite Meteor-1, on March 26, fell back to the earth's atmosphere after more than four decades in orbit, the US Strategic Com…