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Voyager 1 Enters New Region of Solar System
NASA’s long-running Voyager 1 spacecraft has entered a new region at the edge of the solar system and is...
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Mars Rover Detects Simple Organic Compounds
NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has detected several simple carbon-based organic compounds on Mars, but it remains unclear whether they...
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Dust Grains Highlight the Path to Planet Formation
An international team of researchers studying the characteristics of the protoplanetary disk of the star UX Tauri A, have...
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‘The Particle at the End of the Universe’ Gets Real
Caltech physicist Sean Carroll makes the search for the Higgs boson a scientific detective story. At heart is the...
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Scientists Discover Frozen Organic Material on Mercury
Messenger spacecraft finds substances similar to tar or coal in craters on planet nearest sun
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Gargantuan Black Hole Baffles Scientists
A hunt for supermassive black holes reveals a monstrous one at the heart of galaxy NGC 1277, which may...
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Biggest Black Hole Blast Ever Could Solve Cosmological Mystery
Astronomers have seen a distant galaxy that blasts away material with two trillion times the energy the sun emits...
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DOE, NASA Testing Fission Reactor for Spaceflight
Researchers from NASA and the Department of Energy have demonstrated a nuclear reactor that could power spaceflight. It’s nowhere...
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Dark Matter Mystery May Soon Be Solved
The hiding spots for the particles making up dark matter are narrowing, and the answer to this cosmic mystery...
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Super-Earths Get Magnetic ‘Shield’ From Liquid Metal
Within supersized alien versions of Earth, a common transparent ceramic may become a flowing liquid metal, perhaps granting those...