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Seven decades ago, scientists in new Mexico took the first ever pictures of our planet from outer space.
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A strange aluminium object unearthed in Romania in 1973 is thought to date back up to 250,000 years.
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Miners were ecstatic when they came across the stone which is thought to be worth around $170 million.
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It turns out that earthquakes can occur significantly below the upper half of the Earth's crust.
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Scientists believe that a nearby extrasolar planet is 'likely' to be capable of supporting alien life.
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Scientists believe that the dwarf planet's interior may be filled with large quantities of liquid water.
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Divers have unearthed 2,000-year-old skeletal remains within the wreckage of a Roman-era cargo ship.
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How long will it be before the Earth essentially 'dies' and all active processes grind to a halt ?
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It now appears as though Mars would have been able to support life for longer than is generally believed.
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The $1 billion space probe is set to collect samples from an asteroid and return them to the Earth.
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An asteroid that was discovered only last week narrowly missed hitting the planet a few hours later.
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The universe could be filled with primordial black holes which pass through us once every 1,000 years.
The discovery of an Earth-like world around Proxima Centauri has spurred on efforts to send a probe there.
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A 50,000-year-old sewing needle made from bone has been discovered during a dig at a cave in Siberia.
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Palaeontologists have unearthed a particularly impressive T. rex at Montana's Hell Creek Formation.
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Scientists have allegedly discovered a potentially habitable planet within a neighboring star system.
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Archaeologists have unearthed evidence of a huge circle of timber posts just two miles from Stonehenge.
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Archaeologists have been trying to decipher magic spells inscribed on small rolls of gold and silver.
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The remains of an impressive sixth-century palace have been unearthed at Tintagel in Cornwall, England.
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A huge space rock almost half a mile wide has the potential to hit our planet within the next 200 years.