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"Planets Billions of Years Older Than Earth May Exist in the Milky Way"
Building a terrestrial planet requires raw materials that weren't available in the early history of the universe.
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Cosmic Turbulences in 'Dead Zones' Cause Black Holes and Stars to Form
Stars and black holes can form from rotating matter. Yet exactly how they form has long remained one of the big questions of astrophysics. Now, scientists have discovered magnetic fields can cause turbulences within "dead zones," helping them understand just how compact objects form in the cosmos.
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11 other really cool space missions
It's hard to top the tricky, first-ever landing on a comet, broadcast live on the Internet. That's what space lovers and other curious types got on Wednesday, when the European Space Agency's probe Philae touched down on Comet 67P. It was high drama that continued into the afternoon as questions arose about whether the probe, in fact, stuck the landing despite the fact that harpoons designed to anchor it failed to fire. Then the probe's batteries appeared to conk out.
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APOD: 2014 June 8 - Open Cluster NGC 290: A Stellar Jewel Box
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.
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The True Size of the Universe: Astronomers' Breakthrough in Measuring Rate of Expansion
Researchers have made novel measurements of the universe by using BOSS, the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey, when the universe was a mere three billion years old.
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Astronomers Unravel Secrets of Weirdly Tilted Solar Systems
Astronomers have spotted two solar systems forming on a slant, thanks to the influence of each other's stars.
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20-Year Mystery of the Universe's Brightest Objects Solved
Quasars are the brightest objects in the universe, and display a mysterious diversity in their appearance that have puzzled astronomers for more than two decades. Now, scientists think they have a method for solving that mystery.
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Rosetta’s Philae lander has lost power
The spacecraft managed to send back scientific data before it shut down.
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Top 10 Strangest Things in Space
The universe is a weird place. Here's a look at some of the strangest things in the cosmos.
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'Magic Island' Mystery Just Became More Puzzling
The "magic island" mystery on Saturn's moon Titan just became more puzzling. Last year, astronomers spotted a strange bright feature in Titan's Ligeia Mare sea that they called a "magic island." The object first appeared in pho...
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A black hole was caught swallowing a planet | CosmosUp
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Satellite Internet From SpaceX Coming Soon?
For decades, America's satellite-building industry has been dominated by a handful of well-known names: Boeing, Lockheed Martin and a few others. Now, a new name has appeared on the horizon, aiming to disrupt America's satellite industry -- and potentially bring satellite Internet service to the masses. The company? SpaceX.
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4.6 billion-year-old meteorites found in S. Korea
South Korean scientists said Tuesday four meteorites discovered in the southern part of the country earlier this year are estimated to be as old as the solar system.
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Private Moon Mission Aims to Drill Into Lunar South Pole by 2024
The newly announced Lunar Mission One plans to drill at least 65 feet underground at the moon's south pole in 2024, collecting samples that should shed light on the early days of the Earth and moon.
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WORKING LIFE EXTENSIONS FOR ESA’S SCIENCE MISSIONS
Continuing operations of ten space science missions have been extended by ESA’s Science Programme Committee (SPC).
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Unlocking the Secrets of an Alien World's Magnetic Field
The strength of an alien world's magnetic field may have been deduced for the first time, by analyzing fast winds slamming against it from the planet's star. The research could help gauge the strength of other exoplanets' magnetic fields as well.
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New Theory Suggests Life Can Emerge On Planets Without Water
Astrobiologists like to argue about the various parameters required for planetary habitability, but one thing they tend to agree on is that water must be present. A new theory upends this assumption by suggesting that alien life could thrive on "supercritical carbon dioxide" instead.
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Clues revealed about hidden interior of Uranus
(Phys.org) —Long believed to be one of the blandest regions of any of the giant gas planets, the southern hemisphere of Uranus indicates a flurry of previously unknown atmospheric phenomena, hinting at an unusual feature in the interior of the planet.
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Two New Sub-Atomic Particles Discovered at CERN | IFLScience
Two never-before-seen particles have just been detected at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest particle accelerator, by the international LHCb collaboration. Known as Xi_b'- and Xi_b*-, the new particles belong to the baryon family.
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Professor Brian Cox 'would go into space' on a commercial flight, despite Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic tragedy
Are we set to see Professor Brian Cox go where no TV presenter has gone before? The celebrity physicist has revealed to i that he is willing to pay to go into space – despite the Virgin Galactic tragedy on 31 October that left one pilot dead.
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