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They find a fragment of Martian crust on Earth

A team of scientists from Brown University (USA) has discovered, thanks to a new analysis of a rock found a few years ago in the desert of Morocco, that "Black Beauty" or "Black Beauty", as it is known This rock was once part of the great plains of Martian crust that are exhibited among the sand and that are precisely those that form a large part of the soil of our neighboring planet Mars. In fact, as scientists explain to the journal Icarus, "most of the rocks on the surface of Mars probably look a lot like Black Beauty: dark, confusing and beautiful."

They discover a 'super Saturn'

A team of astronomers from the Leiden Observatory (Netherlands) and the University of Rochester (USA) has discovered a ring system close to a star similar to the Sun, named 'J1407'. The finding has been published in the Astrophysical Journal.

They observe signs of formation of a new planetary system

It is the most difficult to study and little known transition stage of what will later become a planetary system. The astronomers who have detected these signals or signs of formation are part of an international team of scientists that has the participation of the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC).

Saturn's rings could be over 4 billion years old

Astronomers have been faced with a debate for a long time: are Saturn's rings a "pipiole" on the time scale of the Solar System or as old as the planet they surround?

An ocean on Titan as salty as the Red Sea

Data provided by NASA's Cassini mission and ESA suggest that the subterranean ocean that houses the largest of its moons, Titan, would be as salty as our Dead Sea.

100 million 'living' planets in the galaxy

In the Milky Way there could be a hundred million planets in addition to Earth capable of harboring complex life forms. To reach this conclusion, a team of astronomers from various US institutions coordinated by Louis Irwin, a professor at the University of Texas at El Paso, has devised a new computing model.

They discover a new type of planet: the Mega-Earth

A team of astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) has announced the discovery of a new type of planet, dubbed "mega-earth" that could host life.

NASA gets an image of the ring system of Uranus

The NASA / ESA Hubble telescope has produced a very difficult image to photograph: the ring system of the planet Uranus.

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