It is the largest and strangest of all the formations on Earth: huge, mysterious blobs of ga ense stone hidden deep in the lower parts of our planet’s mantle. These include two large populations called the Large Low-Shear-Vagilance Provinces (LLSVPs) – one buried under Africa and the other under the …
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Scientists on Friday began casting the largest ever telescope mirrors ever made on Earth for the Chilean-built Giant Magellan Telescope. Why it’s important: The giant telescope, built to peer one day into the atmosphere of potentially habitable planets around distant stars, can learn more about early galaxies and study other …
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BEIJING (AP) – China says its Tienwen-1 spacecraft has entered temporary parking orbit around Mars in anticipation of a rover landing on the Red Planet next month. The China National Space Administration said the spacecraft conducted a maneuver to adjust its orbit as early as Wednesday morning and will remain …
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Cape Canaveral, Fla. (AP) – A spacecraft aimed at landing on Mars has passed over the Earth, burned at the entrance, crashed to the surface, and landed amid a flurry of smoky dust to bring out a vague gray image. Death Nearly 50 years after the first crash on Mars, …
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Astronomers using new technology may not only have found a super-Earth to a neighboring star, but they may have imagined it directly. And it can be nice and cozy in the livable area around Alpha Centauri. It is much easier to see giant planets than Earth-sized planets. No matter which …
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