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Send name to asteroid
The US Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) is inviting people to give their names to engrave on the microchip, mounted in the OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft to fly to the asteroi…
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NEOWISE ships back after starting a new mission
The NEOWISE probe (new name according to WISE's mission to detect dangerous objects near Earth) has sent to the first test images.
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Indian spacecraft begins its journey to Mars
On December 1, India's unmanned spacecraft bears its name
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China launched the moon self-propelled vehicle
Chinese scientists publicly introduced the first self-propelled vehicle to study the moon in public.
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First discovered pink planet
GJ 504b, the name of the pink planet, revolves around a star named GJ 504 and 57 light-years from Earth. GJ 504 star, belongs to the constellation Virgo, a little hotter…
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The new moon Pluto is officially named
The International Astronomical Society (IAU) has decided to officially name the two new moons of Pluto, Kerberos and Styx.
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Comet detection is the brightest century
Hubble took the first close-up picture of ISON, the name of the comet, on the evening of April 10 - when comet was about 630 million kilometers from Earth, National Geog…
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Marrying people in dreams thanks to distant planets
Calling the extraterrestrial planet with the name of a lover is a unique idea for a guy in the US and that idea helps him to successfully propose.
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Two meteors are about to fly close to the earth
2013 EC 20 - the name of a meteorite - will be about 148,800km from the globe - March 16 by US time. A day later, meteorite named 2013 EN 20 will fly close to the earth…
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Detecting water on a distant planet
HR 8799c, the name of the planet, about 130 light-years from Earth. It is quite far from its own star so astronomers can observe it easily.
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Vulcan leads the poll of the name of the Pluto moon
The name Vulcan comes back first in the campaign to find the new name for the two smallest moons of Pluto (Pluto), thanks to the nomination of
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Spooky blue eyes in the sky
NGC 2207 and IC 2163, names of two galaxies twisted in the Canis Major constellation, are in the process of merging into a galaxy.
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NASA changed the mission's name to study the radiation belt
The US Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has announced the mission of Van Allen, in an effort to study the earth's radiation belts.
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The magical beauty of the 'eyes of God'
Helix, the name of a nebula about 650 light-years from Earth, is dubbed
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First discovered the planet in the constellation
Pr0201-b and Pr0211-b, the names of two new planets found, about 550 light-years from the Earth and belonging to the constellation Cancer.