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Forty years after the last Apollo spacecraft launched, the science from those missions continues to shape our view of the moon. In one of the latest developments, readings from the Apollo 14 and 15 dust detectors have been restored by scientists at NASA
Dec 7th, 2012
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NGC 922's current unusual form is a result of a cosmic bullseye millions of years ago. A smaller galaxy, catalogued as 2MASXI J0224301-244443, plunged right through the heart of NGC 922 and shot out the other side.
Dec 6th, 2012
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Building on the success of Curiosity's Red Planet landing, NASA has announced plans for a robust multi-year Mars program, including a new robotic science rover set to launch in 2020.
Dec 6th, 2012
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Twin spacecraft create a highly detailed gravity map of the moon, finding an interior pulverized by early impacts.
Dec 6th, 2012
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The very first stars may have turned on when the universe was 750 million years old.
Dec 6th, 2012
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A Cornell-based project called KickSat is set to launch more than 200 tiny satellites, nicknamed "sprites," into low-Earth orbit as part of a routine NASA-administered mission in 2013 to the International Space Station.
Dec 5th, 2012
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VLT observations identify very rare new kind of galaxy.
Dec 5th, 2012
Read moreTwin spacecraft have captured the clearest sounds yet from Earth's radiation belts - and they mimic the chirping of birds.
Dec 4th, 2012
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$2.1 Million Grant to Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics advances dark energy research at UC Berkeley and Berkeley Lab.
Dec 4th, 2012
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By combining the observing powers of ESA's Herschel space observatory and the ground-based Keck telescopes, astronomers have characterised hundreds of previously unseen starburst galaxies, revealing extraordinary high star-formation rates across the history of the Universe.
Dec 4th, 2012
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Scientists have long suspected that a vast ocean of liquid water lies under the crusty exterior of Titan, Saturn's largest moon. New analysis suggests that the internally generated heat that keeps that ocean from freezing relies on the moon's interactions with Saturn and its other moons.
Dec 4th, 2012
Read moreTwo French researchers have recently proposed the first ever model explaining how the great majority of regular satellites in our solar system were formed out of planet rings. The model, the only one of its kind, was first tested in 2010 on Saturn's moons.
Dec 4th, 2012
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Alon Efrat and Jonathan Myers of the University of Arizona computer science department are working under a new grant to help improve methods for discovering asteroids on paths toward Earth.
Dec 4th, 2012
Read moreChinese astronauts may get fresh vegetables and oxygen supplies by gardening in extraterrestrial bases in the future, an official said after a just-concluded lab experiment in Beijing.
Dec 4th, 2012
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NASA's Curiosity rover analyzed its first solid sample of Mars in Nov. with a variety of instruments, including the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite.
Dec 3rd, 2012
Read moreScattered around the Milky Way are stars that resemble our own sun - but a new study is finding that any planets orbiting those stars may very well be hotter and more dynamic than Earth.
Dec 3rd, 2012
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NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has entered a new region at the far reaches of our solar system that scientists feel is the final area the spacecraft has to cross before reaching interstellar space.
Dec 3rd, 2012
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Six years of observations by ESA's Venus Express have shown large changes in the sulphur dioxide content of the planet's atmosphere, and one intriguing possible explanation is volcanic eruptions.
Dec 3rd, 2012
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