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Following intense research, scientists have revealed some surprising facts about the origins and the formation of our solar system. A team of chemists and physicists studied the particles gathered by the Stardust spacecraft, which was launched in 1999. Stardust’s primary purpose was to investigate the makeup of the comet Wild 2 and its coma. It […]
The U.S. may be bound for deep space again. In a rare double hit of good-news headlines last week, NASA announced first that it has set up its plans for America’s return to the moon and then, two days later, that it had discovered signs that water had flowed on the surface of Mars within […]
Planets Jupiter, Mercury and Mars are visible to the naked eye up to December 14. These planets in conjunction can be seen early Sunday morning, 40 minutes before sunrise. This is the closest these planets will be until the year 2053.
Naked-eye viewing is fine, but binoculars or a telescope are even better. A telescope is not […]
Scientists say that U.S. satellite pictures of Mars provides strong evidence that liquid water still flows on the red planet, suggesting an environment that could be hospitable to life. But new pictures also show other signs that Mars could be a dangerous place for life, specifically visiting astronauts. VOA’s David McAlary has details from Washington.
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A star in a galaxy 4 billion light-years away, was pulled from its normal orbit and eaten by a black hole. For the past two years, scientists have monitored the dramatic events of the star, residing in a galaxy in the Bootes constellation.
Scientists used NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer, an orbiting telescope sensitive to two bands of ultraviolet […]