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Stone from Mercury has fallen to Earth
Many people saw a meteorite on fire in the sky in North Africa in July last year, but it was not until late December that scientists discovered its fragments at a place…
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Asteroids 'baked' Earth
A collision with an ancient asteroid may have triggered a global fire storm, burning each tree and grass on the surface of our planet.
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NASA is stunned by the white stone on the red planet
The presence of a white stone on Mars made the scientists of the US Space Agency (NASA) stunned.
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Comet: Assassin kills the dinosaurs
American scientists announced the study of space rocks that collided with Earth 65 million years ago, causing the extinction of dinosaurs as a comet, rather than an aste…
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Mars once existed drinkable water
The Curiosity probe ship drills a sample of rock on Mars and then sends it to the chemical laboratory on this probe for analysis. The results show that the rock sample c…
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Discover large meteorite in Antarctica
Vinciane Debaille, a geologist of the Free University of Brussels in Belgium, and Belgian and Japanese colleagues have used snowmobiles to find Antarctic meteorites for…
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How to recognize meteors
A normal person is easily fooled when he buys a meteorite for a very high price, because they are difficult to distinguish between asteroid and ordinary stone.
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Russian meteorite turned into
After an asteroid explosion in a poor Siberia town, Larisa Briyukova wondered what to do with the strange stone she found.
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NASA ships find gray stones on the surface of Mars
NASA announced on February 20 that its Curiosity probe had obtained a sample of Martian rock and discovered that powdered soil just below the planet's red surface was ac…
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NASA robots search for 'treasure' on Mars
Curiosity is the first robot capable of drilling deep into Mars's rock. This time, Curiosity used its drilling and beating system to drill, smash rocks, take samples and…
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The Curiosity is about to drill its first nose on Mars
The Mars probe by NASA's Curiosity will soon make its first straight drill into the surface of the red planet, AFP quoted officials as saying. .
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Arduous take Mars land to Earth
Scientists are studying the possibility of returning the Earth from Mars to the answer: whether life exists here and whether we can visit the planet in the future. hybri…
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'Curious' cleaning dust on Mars rocks
The US Aeronautics Agency (NASA) said 'Curious' is carrying out the cleaning of the red dust on the surface of the Martian rock.
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Japan will continue to explore
The Japan Space Exploration Agency (JAXA) will launch a spacecraft to a meteorite next year to sample soil and rock.
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The moon was a piece of earth?
The moon and other rocky planets inside the solar system were hit by far more violent effects than previously thought, two NASA spacecraft discovered this.