Space

  1. Space

    Light in the Dark

    Scientists may be on the brink of identifying a mysterious form of matter.

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  2. Space

    California meteorite a scientific gold mine

    Sutter’s Mill rock preserves rare, fresh material from outer space.

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  3. Space

    News in brief: Possible planet looks habitable

    Astronomers find a body in the habitable zone of a nearby sunlike star by pushing the limits of detection.

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  4. Space

    Moon probes set for smashing end

    NASA to guide gravity-seeking spacecraft into the side of a lunar cliff.

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  5. Astronomy

    Mirror Earth

    The Search for Our Planet's Twin by Michael D. Lemonick.

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  6. Cosmology

    Edge of the Universe

    A Voyage to the Cosmic Horizon and Beyond by Paul Halpern.

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  7. Planetary Science

    Curiosity goes to Mars

    NASA’s rover looks for life-friendly environments.

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  8. Astronomy

    Clutch of distant galaxies reveals the infant universe

    The Hubble telescope spies stars lighting up the cosmic dawn.

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  9. Planetary Science

    Violent past revealed by map of moon’s interior

    A gravity survey by twin orbiters reveals how much the lunar surface was pummeled by meteorite impacts early in its history.

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  10. Space

    Earth in the black

    Images capture fine details of planet’s night lights.

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  11. Space

    LHC sees odd behavior in superhot particle soup

    Coordinated motion in debris from lead-proton collisions may yield clues about quark-gluon plasma.

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  12. Space

    Extraterrestrial chorus heard in radiation belts

    Van Allen probes capture sound of electromagnetic disturbances in Earth’s magnetosphere.

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