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Close up of the Milky Way's
Some of the Milky Way stars must be 13 billion years old, but the production machine is constantly working to produce new generation of stars.
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Exploiting extraterrestrial graveyards
The US Department of Defense wants to use parts that are still active in
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The 12-year-old girl wakes up YouTube
Little Lauren Rojas (12 years old), a seventh-grader from Antioch City (California, USA), completed her science project by bringing Hello Kitty into space and recording…
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Meteors from Mars contain many record countries
Meteorite 'Black Beauty' from Mars is the oldest and most abundant specimen ever.
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The 'newborn' of the universe
Astronomers have just released a new image of the universe, when it was 375,000 years old.
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The universe is in crisis
A group of international astronomers said that the rate of new star formation in the universe has been detected at only 1/30 of the peak, and this speed is on the declin…
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2014: Italy brought the first female astronaut to space
According to the Italian Space Agency, female astronaut - Samantha Cristoforetti (35 years old) - the captain in the Italian Air Force, is currently training on the cons…
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Astronauts on the ISS Station must shelter because of cosmic garbage
A debris from Russia's old satellite flew through the International Space Station (ISS) on March 24, forcing six crew members of the ISS to temporarily shelter at two So…
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New evidence confirms that meteors once crashed into the earth
An international team of scientists has discovered nearly 13,000 years old sediment at the bottom of Lake Cuitzeo in central Mexico. This sediment contains a group of st…
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Constellations 13 billion years old
Our Milky Way series is surrounded by nearly 200 dense constellations, each with about one million stars on average. At the age of 13 billion years, these spherical cons…
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Discover the youngest metaphor
Scientists report that they have discovered a hidden planet less than 25 million years old, the youngest ever.
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Satellite Rosat rushes into the earth's atmosphere
The big truck-sized satellite has plunged into the atmosphere and its debris might hit the earth today, the German space agency announced.
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Rosat 'satellite may fall to the Indian Ocean'
Fragments of the German satellite may have fallen into the Indian Ocean after it crashed into the atmosphere yesterday.
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Accurate fall point of German satellites
After many predictions about whether the German satellite could fall in Southeast Asia or deep in the Chinese plateau, scientists finally located the grounding position…
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Mysterious 2,000-year-old supernova
The greatest mystery of the ancient supernova discovered by Chinese people 2000 years ago has been decoded.