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How Can We Protect Mars From Earth microbes, While Searching For Life?
How do we keep a firewall between the planets to ensure microbes don’t cause havoc on Earth or Mars?
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The strangest moon in the Solar System
Saturn’s Iapetus looks like nothing else we’ve ever seen. What made it so?
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Earth's Moon May Not Be Critical to Life
The Moon has long been viewed as a crucial component in creating an environment suitable for the evolution of complex life on Earth,
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Astronomers Discover Ancient Terrestrial Exoplanets Around Neighboring Star
Artist's concept of the recently discovered tightly packed and ancient exoplanetary system named Kepler-444.
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Mismatched twin stars spotted in the delivery room | Astronomy.com
In a quest to find mismatched star pairs, astronomers have discovered a new class of binary stars — one star is fully formed while the other is still in its infancy.
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Giant hydrogen cloud headed for Milky Way
A high-speed hydrogen cloud on a crash course with the Milky Way appears to be an exotic interloper, preliminary data suggest.
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One planet, four stars: the second known case of a planet in a quadruple star system
Researchers wanting to know more about the influences of multiple stars on exoplanets have come up with a new case study: a planet in a four-star system.
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NASA’s Chandra Observatory Finds Cosmic Showers Halt Galaxy Growth
This galaxy cluster comes from a sample of over 200 that were studied to determine how giant black holes at their centers affect the growth and evolution of their host galaxy,
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Before There Were Stars
The universe is the grandest merger story that there is. Complete with mysterious origins, forces of light and darkness, and chemistry…
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Inside the CERN Control Centre
Take a tour of one of the most important rooms at CERN.The Brain and Heart of CERN
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MAVEN Spots Dust Cloud, Aurora on Mars - Sky & Telescope
NASA's spacecraft has detected an auroral glow across Mars's northern hemisphere, plus dust high above that has left planetary scientists perplexed.
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Dark matter is ghostly and non-interactive
A new study of colliding galaxy clusters has found that dark matter doesn't even interact with itself.
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Black holes may reveal what lies within
Shred a document, and you can piece it back together. Burn a book, and you could theoretically do the same. But send information into a black hole, and it’s lost forever.
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The Solar System and Beyond is Awash in Water
Next time you sip a humble glass of H2O, consider this: The story of water connects each of us to processes that shape our universe.
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Radiation and Boredom: Manned Mars Mission Faces Challenges
Martian astronauts will need to be able to withstand the reduced gravity and increased radiation in deep space. And they'll have to find a way to deal with the boredom, experts say.
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Can life exist on a planet without a star?
In the dark corners of our galaxy, there are billions of rogue planets roaming around, starless — can they support life?
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NASA's GoPro-armed astronauts take you on a spacewalk
NASA astronauts strapped GoPro cameras to their space suits during a spacewalk earlier this year, and the resulting footage is incredible.
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Scientists create dark matter 'map' to see invisible space
We've finally gotten our first glimpse at the mysterious material that supposedly makes up 27 percent of the universe. It's only taken two years of research, the efforts of 300 researchers working for the Dark Energy Survey (DES) and a 570-megapixel camera attached to the Victor Blanco telescope in Chile to do so.
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NASA's Spitzer Spots Planet Deep Within Our Galaxy
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has teamed up with a telescope on the ground to find a remote gas planet about 13,000 light-years away, making it one of the most distant planets known.
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Dark matter not so 'dark' after all?
Astronomers believe they might have observed the first potential signs of dark matter interacting with a force other than gravity.
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