Black Friday was celebrated in many parts of the world on November 27 as it marks the beginning of the holiday season in the West and the countdown to the Christmas festivities. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) also had a fair share of their celebrations but their focus …
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China on Monday launched its most ambitious lunar mission yet: a robotic spacecraft is expected to land on the lunar surface by the end of the week. About 4 pounds of rock and soil samples will be collected by the spacecraft and they are expected to return to Earth next …
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Analyzing data collected by NASA’s Curiosity rover, scientists have discovered that a flood of incredible intensity was once washed away by the Gale Crater on the equator of Mars about four billion years ago. These findings, published in the journal Scientific Reports, point to the possibility of life on the …
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Jupiter and Saturn may appear to be spinning and whirling, but they are stormy storms that are literally and otherwise out of this world. Nothing like this happens on earth. Fierce storms on these gas giants were thought to have originated from the atmosphere below, as they have on our …
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Ten billion years ago, another galaxy crashed into the Milky Way galaxy. A report in The Independent states that astronomers have discovered a huge, “fossil constellation” in our midst. According to independent reports, researchers from the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment Project (APOGEE) announced the discovery on Friday. They …
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