SpaceX will send NASA astronauts into space in June 2019
The partnership between NASA and SpaceX is becoming clearer. The US space agency plans to solicit SpaceX and Boeing for astronauts to be taken to the...
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Visitors from other galaxies: stars that could reach the Milky Way from the outside
The Milky Way contains more than one hundred billion stars. Most are in a disc with a dense and bulky center, in the middle of which...
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A tiny dwarf planet detected on the edge of the Solar System
A new object far removed from the Sun, well beyond Neptune, was detected by American astrophysicists who were trying to find the planet X, this...
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Mummified Ice Age Wolf Pup Discovered in Yukon Gold Mine
A group of Canadian miners inadvertently banished the mummified remains of two animals from the Ice Age, a caribou calf and a wolf cub. The extraordinary find...
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Watch: Rocket launch captured on video from space
We have seen space launches from so close that some cameras have been scorched by combustion gases, but what if you move away to gain perspective. There are...
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Pluto should be reclassified as a planet, experts say
Is Pluto a planet? This astronomical debate does not seem to have an end. In 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) proposed a definition of a planet...
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Laziness helped lead the extinction of Homo erectus
Why Homo sapiens was the only human species that survived to this day is still a subject of study for anthropology. In addition to our ability to adapt, care policy and...
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5,300 YEARS AGO, ÖTZI THE ICEMAN DIED. NOW WE KNOW HIS LAST MEAL.
Just two hours before being killed some 5,300 years ago, Otzi, known as the Iceman, ate some juicy sandwiches: dried ibex meat and fat, red...
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Jupiter as you have never seen it before thanks to these beautiful images of Juno
Since the Juno probe began to orbit Jupiter in August 2016, it has not stopped sending us beautiful images. Once every 53.5 days, the spacecraft swiftly...
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The science behind corruption
Every so often we witness disappointing episodes, mainly in our governments, where a public official (or a group of them) is caught receiving bribes proposed...