Space

  1. Planets

    The comet that came in from the cold

    Comet ISON is hurtling toward the sun at breakneck speed. During this first (and possibly last) trip around the sun, it will either shoot back into space or be torn apart.

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  2. Planets

    So many ‘Earths’

    A new analysis suggests humans are not alone in the universe. Our galaxy alone may host billions of Earth-like planets, ones able to support life as we know it.

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  3. Space

    The Milky Way’s ‘flag’ action

    Our galaxy flutters, but astronomers are perplexed as to why.

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  4. Space

    Oldest, most distant galaxy found

    Galaxy's light comes from a time shortly after the Big Bang.

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  5. Planets

    Scratching the Martian surface

    What’s Mars made of? Volcanic rock, glassy particles and a poisonous rocket-fuel chemical, among other things. That’s the latest from tests by NASA’s Curiosity rover.

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  6. Space

    Bon voyage, Voyager 1

    A spacecraft launched more than three decades ago has entered the space between stars.

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  7. Planets

    Seeing the moon’s water

    Rocky details of our moon can be gleaned without the aid of visiting astronauts. The latest example: An orbiting spacecraft may have just spotted water locked within surface rocks.

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  8. Space

    Pretty baby

    Young star rockets out matter that glows.

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  9. Space

    Kepler telescope can’t be fixed

    It had been NASA’s top planet-hunting telescope.

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  10. Space

    Feasting black hole

    A huge gas cloud is being stretched, shredded and destroyed by the black hole at the center of the Milky Way.

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  11. Physics

    Black hole mysteries

    Scientists are just getting to know the black holes that help anchor our cosmos.

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  12. Space

    New, older age for the universe

    Telescope peers back to see the first light after the Big Bang.

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