Space

  1. Space

    More like Faux-malhaut b

    The Spitzer Space Telescope fails to find a visible planet circling where Hubble saw one four years ago.

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  2. Space

    Molten blobs create moon flashes

    Mysterious lunar lights are the superhot remains of meteorites pelting the surface.

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  3. Physics

    String theorists squeeze nine dimensions into three

    A supercomputer simulation of the Big Bang’s immediate aftermath may explain why space has three directions.

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  4. Space

    Diet of a dying star

    Astronomers pinpoint what feeds a type of stellar explosion.

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  5. Space

    Planets as common as stars in Milky Way

    A new analysis suggests the galaxy is riddled with worlds.

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  6. Space

    New maps of the cosmic dark

    Probing galactic distortions reveals web of invisible matter.

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  7. Space

    Saturn moons spied from the side

    Cassini captures Titan and Dione against the sixth planet’s rings.

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  8. Astronomy

    Toasty planets circle stellar heart

    Roasted remains orbit former red giant.

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  9. Space

    First Earth-sized planets netted

    The Kepler space telescope gets one step closer to its mission of discovering habitable worlds by finding two orbs of terrestrial proportions orbiting a distant sunlike star.

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  10. Space

    Distant world looks too ripe for life

    The first extrasolar planet to be discovered in its star’s habitable zone is probably inhospitably hot.

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  11. Space

    Distant world looks ripe for life

    Extrasolar planet hunt spots its most Earthlike orb yet.

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  12. Space

    Christmas gamma-ray burst still puzzles

    Nearly a year after receiving a spectacular celestial gift, astrophysicists are still asking: “What is it?”

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