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Two medium asteroids flutter across the Earth
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Two medium asteroids flutter across the Earth

NASA meteorite project scientists said the two small 2012 FP35 and 2012 FS35 meteorites have flown over Earth at very close distances on the evening of March 26 (interna…

December 17, 2018
Record super-large solar vortex
Space science

Record super-large solar vortex

The image of a tornado 5 times the size of the Earth created by solar energy was recorded by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) camera.

December 17, 2018
America's oldest 'satellite' falls to Earth
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America's oldest 'satellite' falls to Earth

One of the first US satellites named Explorer 8 launched on October 3, 1960 after half a century of orbiting into the dense atmosphere on March 31.

December 17, 2018
Mercury is not a dead planet
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Mercury is not a dead planet

Contrary to previous scientific opinion that Mercury is the dead planet, the data sent to Earth by Messenger of the spacecraft shows that the inner workings of the plane…

December 17, 2018
Titan Saturn Moon: 1,000 years a rain
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Titan Saturn Moon: 1,000 years a rain

According to recent analysis results, in many places on Saturn's moon Titan, every 1000 years on average there is rain. But unlike the rain on Earth, the rain on this mo…

December 17, 2018
Asteroid Vesta 'very similar to the Earth
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Asteroid Vesta 'very similar to the Earth

Vesta - one of the largest asteroids in the solar system with a diameter of nearly 530 km - has many characteristics similar to rocky planets like Earth, discovered by a…

December 17, 2018
Mars and the earth come together
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Mars and the earth come together

Today Mars will arrive at 112 million kilometers from the Earth, the shortest distance between the two bodies in the journey around the 26-month sun of the red planet.

December 17, 2018