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Telescope Survey Reveals Universe’s Dark Secrets
This small portion of a deep space image taken by the Canada-France-Hawaii Telscope Legacy Survey reveals thousands of galaxies yet to be explored. (Image: © CFHT/Coelum/Terapix/AstrOmatic) Scientists...
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Moon May Have Formed From Earth’s Leftovers
The moon (Photo: NASA) The Earth and its moon started with a big bang, according to a new theory from NASA scientists, who believe both were born out of collisions between two massive developing...
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Scientists Strike ‘Scientific Gold’ in California
Fragments of the Sutter’s Mill meteorite fall collected by astronomer Dr. Peter Jennisken. (NASA) Researchers have struck scientific gold at Sutter’s Mill, site of the famed California Gold Rush where...
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New Imager Finds Distant Planets Unlike Others in Known Universe
Image of the HR8799 planets with starlight optically suppressed and data processing conducted to remove residual starlight. The star is at the center of the blackened circle in the image. The four...
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Glitch Jeopardizes Planet Hunter’s Mission
A malfunction could force an abrupt end to the Kepler Space Telescope’s planet-hunting mission. Artist’s rendering of the Kepler space telescope. (NASA) NASA received the unwelcome news last Sunday...
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Ultra-Light Planet Found Outside Solar System
The blue dot is the newly discovered exoplanet, HD95086B, which was captured by ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile. (ESO) The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has discovered what appears to...
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IRIS: New NASA Spacecraft to Study Mysterious Region of Sun’s Atmosphere
NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) with solar panels open in flight position, in the clean room at the Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center in Palo Alto, where it was designed...
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Far-away Planet Found to be Same Color as Earth
Artist’s impression of the deep blue planet HD 189733b (NASA) The Hubble Space Telescope has helped scientists determine the color of a planet outside of our Solar System for the first time. Located...
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Astronomers Spot Snow in Deep Space
Artist concept of snow line in TW Hydrae showing water covered ice grains colored blue in the inner disk and green colored CO ice covered grains in the outer disk. (Bill Saxton and Alexandra Angelich,...
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The Sun is About to Flip Its (Magnetic) Poles
The Sun photographed by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). (NASA/SDO (AIA)) Here at Science World, one of our favorite topics is the sun. We’ve been able to provide you with a number of...
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Sleeping Comet Chaser to Get Wake-Up Call
Artist view of the Rosetta spacecraft. Rosetta’s lander, Philae, is attached and is shown in blue (© ESA/J. Huart) The European Space Agency’s comet chasing Rosetta spacecraft is about to wake up from...
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Planetary Scientists Get Into Balloon Game
The high-altitude balloon that carried the HySICS instruments with WASP is inflated with helium at sunrise on Sept. 29, 2013. (HySICS Team/LASP) A new device developed by NASA will help planetary...
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Survey Reveals American’s Attitudes About Science and Technology
A scientist works in a laboratory at the International Livestock Research Institute in Nairobi, Kenya. (Australia Dept of Foreign Affairs & Trade/Creative Commons) Americans like scientists....
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Ancient Zircon Reveals Age of Earth’s Crust
A 4.4 billion-year-old zircon crystal provides insight into how the early Earth cooled from a ball of magma 160 million years after the solar system formed. (John Valley) A tiny sliver of ancient...
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Giant Jovian Moon Might Have an Ocean and Ice ‘Club Sandwich’
Artist concept of possible ‘Moonwich’ of Ice and Oceans on Ganymede (NASA/JPL-Caltech) Ganymede is Jupiter’s largest moon; in fact it’s the solar system’s biggest moon. Now members of the Icy Worlds...
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Humans Too Stupid to Meet ET
The original ET from the bicycle escape scene from Steven Spielburg’s 1982 blockbuster movie. (AP Photo) Are we alone in this mammoth universe? Or are there other life forms and civilizations out there...
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3D Printer in Space, Antibiotic Laced Pesticides May Trigger Allergies, Milky...
3-D printer that will soon be delivered to the International Space Station. Items the 3-D printer created is perched on its top side. (NASA) NASA Hopes 3D Printer Technology Will Prove Useful in Space...
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About Half of the Water You Drink is Older than the Sun
Child quenches thirst with some water (USAID) New research reveals that as much as one half of all of Earth’s current water supply is older than the Sun. An international team of scientists led by Ilse...
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Saturn Moon’s Wobble Could Be Clue to What’s Inside
This mosaic of Saturn’s moon Mimas was created from images taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft during its closest flyby of the moon on Feb. 13, 2010. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute)...
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Rosetta Mission Fuels Argument About Origin of Earth’s Water
Young boy about to quench his thirst with some water (USAID) The debate about the origin of Earth’s water just got deeper. The European Space Agency’s (ESA) comet-chasing spacecraft Rosetta has sent...
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