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Antimatter spewing from 'afterlife' object detected
Legendary antimatter has filled space from a dead star's escape.
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European Space Agency develops equipment to harvest oxygen on the Moon
The European Space Agency plans to deploy a device capable of extracting 70% of the oxygen from the lunar surface by 2030.
Space science
Strange and mysterious things in the universe you may not know
Strange galaxies, planets with unknown features, mysterious satellites and unique phenomena.
Conquer Mars
The formation and disappearance of a 4,000km-wide dust storm on Mars
The UAE's Hope spacecraft observes the formation and disappearance of a giant dust storm in the southern hemisphere of Mars.
Science Events
Asteroid nearly 500m has just passed the Earth
NASA says an asteroid with a diameter more than three times larger than the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt flew past Earth today.
Discover science
Found the biggest building block of life, about to land on a new planet
The largest molecule found in a disk of dust and gas orbiting a small star has been identified. It is a building block of life.
Space science
Black hole closest to Earth is now a 'vampire'
HR 6819 aka Be Star, long thought to be the closest black hole to Earth, is something completely different, interesting and terrifying.
Space science
Discovered an extremely rare X particle that existed from the very beginning of the universe
X (3872) is a short-lived matter particle that was recently revived in Switzerland.
Space science
Space station detector finds source of strange 'blue ray' lightning
Scientists have finally got a clear view of the spark that produces a strange type of lightning called a blue spark.
Space science
A black spot the size of Earth appears on the Sun
The world's largest solar telescope in Hawaii took pictures of a giant sunspot on the Sun at the end of February.
Space science
Two black holes orbiting will collide strongly in the future
Astronomers from Caltech have discovered that two black holes, 9 billion light-years from Earth, are on the verge of a merger.
Space science
Planet from another galaxy constantly broadcasting radio waves to Earth?
This is the closest source of extragalactic radio waves ever recorded, the origin of which could be a neutron star companion or even a black hole.
Science Events
Detects a shock wave 60 times larger than the Milky Way
Scientists have discovered that the collision caused a shock wave 60 times larger than the entire Milky Way and about 100,000 light-years across.
Space science
Life materials and a series of shocking things appear on the 'lost planet'
Ceres, the mysterious dwarf planet, the largest object in the asteroid belt, continues to amaze astronomers with what it possesses.
Space science
The 'most dangerous' asteroid of the decade did not crash into Earth
Through careful observation, experts determined that the 70-meter-wide asteroid 2022 AE1 will pass 10 million km from Earth next year.