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The silent 'companion' of the earth
WISE space telescope - launched by the US in 2009 and capable of infrared photography - discovered a meteorite flying near the earth last year. They named it 2010 SO16.
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NASA scientist finds life in the universe
A NASA scientist recently claimed to have found evidence of extraterrestrial life on a meteorite.
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are we all aliens?
The bombardment of meteorite 4 billion years ago may have triggered life instead of destroying them on the surface of the globe.
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The solar system is made up of ... stones?
Royal London scientists have produced the first geological evidence to prove the previous hypotheses, about how rocks were made to form the solar system.
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Earth life originates from meteor shower?
The new study suggests that life on Earth appeared when the first meteor shower fell on our planet.
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A meteorite has just over 5000 km away from Earth
According to the US Space Agency (NASA), a small meteorite just flew over our Earth at a distance of just over 5000 km.
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Detecting building blocks of extraterrestrial origin
Scientist Peter Jenniskens is approaching one of the meteorites in the Nubian desert of Sudan
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The most outstanding cosmic discoveries in 2010
In 2010, many remarkable secrets about the universe were discovered as every black hole contained a universe, the end of time, found a new earth ... Here are 10 discover…
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The dark side of the Moon gradually
The Lunar Reconaissance Orbiter (LRO) probe from NASA has for the first time captured images of the dark side of the Moon with a resolution 100 times higher than ...
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Amino acids help to understand the origin of life
NASA scientists discovered amino acids - the basic material of life - in a meteorite falling into Sudan in 2008.
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China announced the image of the moon
Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao yesterday published photos of an area on the moon captured by Hang Nga 2.
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Meteors bring life to Earth
Scientists believe that life on Earth may have originated from another planet after our planet collided with a meteorite in the universe.
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A meteor is about to fly near the earth
In the middle of the next month a meteorite will fly 6.4 million km away from the globe, a distance close enough for it to be grouped
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Two large meteors are flying towards Earth
Astronomers of the US Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said on September 9 that they had discovered two meteorites flying toward Earth between the orbit of th…
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The solar system is 'older' than we think
Scientists have proven that the solar system is older than we thought after analyzing the material of a meteorite