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The Broken Beyond: How Space Turned Into an Office Park
Last summer the last Space Shuttle took its last space flight, but last week it took its last worldly...
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Earth Life May Have Come From Fragments of Other Planets
Microorganisms that crashed to Earth embedded in the fragments of distant planets might have been the sprouts of life...
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Why Curiosity Matters
Adam Steltzner is a rocker-turned-NASA engineer who helped take the country’s cool new Curiosity rover to the surface of...
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Humongous, Gassy Halo Found Surrounding Milky Way
Our galaxy — and the nearby Large and Small Magellanic Clouds as well — appears to be surrounded by...
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Astronomers Look to Coronal Cavities to Predict Huge Solar Blasts
From time to time, the sun projects billion-ton clouds of charged particles from its scorching surface, surrounded by a...
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Quasars: Mileposts Marking the Universe’s Expansion
Scientists can’t travel deep space the way Columbus sailed and charted the New World or Lewis and Clark mapped...
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Cosmic Magnifying Lens Unveils Oldest Galaxy
Scientists have discovered the strongest evidence yet for a 13.2-billion-year old galaxy, a finding that provides a key piece...
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Icy Particles of Space May Have Been Ingredients for Life on Earth
In an effort to better understand how life started on Earth, researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory are cooking...
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Dark Energy Camera Starts Snapping; Just 300 Million Galaxies to Go
The Dark Energy Camera, a $40-million piece of equipment that represents a pinnacle of astronomical research, is now peering...
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Dark Energy Camera Snaps First Images Ahead of Survey
The highest-resolution camera ever built has begun its quest to pin down the mysterious stuff that makes up nearly...