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Space
World of Three Suns
A planet in the Milky Way tightly orbits the main star of a stellar trio.
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Planets
Cousin Earth
Astronomers have found a solid, Earthlike planet just 15 light-years beyond the solar system.
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Planets
Chaos Among the Planets
The screwball travels of four giant planets may have reshaped the early solar system.
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Space
Killers from Outer Space
A newly revised scale rates the risk that an asteroid may crash into Earth and wipe out life as we know it.
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Planets
Solving a Sedna Mystery
Astronomers are learning more about the most-remote object known in the solar system.
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Space
Return to Space
NASA is readying the space shuttle Discovery for its first launch in more than 2 years.
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Space
Super star cluster in the neighborhood
Astronomers have spotted an amazingly compact grouping of stars in the Milky Way.
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No Fat Stars
Stars in the Milky Way can weigh no more than 150 times the sun's mass.
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Dark galaxy
Astronomers have spied a massive galaxy that appears to contain no stars.
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Planets
Sounds of Titan
A space probe touches down on an alien, but eerily familiar world and samples its music.
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Black hole journey
Research on weird, invisible objects called black holes might help explain how the universe began.
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Planets
Unveiling Titan
A space probe that landed on Saturn's frigid moon Titan found a landscape that looks a lot like Earth.
By Emily Sohn