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  1. Planetary Science

    Feedback

    Readers discuss sources of stress in everyday life and tell us what they think about NASA's plan to nab an asteroid.

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  2. Oceans

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    Readers discuss oil spills, the dangers of fracking and what teams need to succeed on long space missions.

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  3. Planetary Science

    Rosetta reveals a complex comet

    Rosetta finds diverse landscapes on comet 67P, which could provide researchers with clues about how the solar system formed.

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  4. Planetary Science

    How did Earth get its water?

    Earth is a wet planet that formed in a dry part of the solar system. How our planet’s water arrived may be a story of big, bullying planets and ice-filled asteroids.

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  5. Astronomy

    NASA releases 2015 budget with some mission cuts

    NASA $17.5 billion budget for fiscal year 2015 supports big missions, such as the James Webb Space Telescope. But there are plans to put the SOFIA telescope in storage.

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  6. Astronomy

    Early Mars couldn’t hold liquid water long

    Small rocks hit Mars 3.6 billion years ago, suggesting an early atmosphere too thin for liquid water to hang around very long.

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  7. Astronomy

    Magnetic bubbles could shield astronauts from radiation

    With help from plasma and a magnet, solar storms' dangers would lessen on long space trips.

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  8. Astronomy

    Rosetta readies for its close rendezvous with a comet

    The Rosetta spacecraft and its lander Philae are ready to make history in a risky rendezvous with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

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  9. Planetary Science

    MAVEN spacecraft blasts off to Mars

    In September 2014, the satellite will begin studying the Red Planet's upper atmosphere.

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  10. Planetary Science

    Old rover finds new evidence of water on Mars

    Opportunity’s analysis of rocks at Endeavour crater reveals chemistry that could have supported life.

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  11. Planetary Science

    Eclipsing the sun, from Mars

    NASA rover catches silhouette of Martian moon

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  12. Animals

    A brief history of animal death in space

    The Russian “sexy space geckos” join a long list of creatures that have died after humans sent them into space.

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