Space
We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
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Saturn’s rings tell a comet’s tale
Ripples made by a celestial impact 600 years ago can still be seen today.
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Miniplanet sports megapeak
The solar system’s second tallest mountain hides out in a crater at the south pole of the asteroid Vesta.
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Cosmic acceleration discovery wins physics Nobel
Three astrophysicists are honored for revealing the universe's accelerating expansion.
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Antennas reveal Antennae
A giant radio telescope array in Chile’s Atacama Desert produces its first images.
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Longer cosmic ruler based on black holes
A new method promises to improve the precision of extreme astronomical distance measurements.
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Messenger from Mercury
NASA orbiter returns images of odd landforms on the solar system's innermost planet.
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Atom & Cosmos
Alien extreme weather, nature vs. nurture in stars and more in this week’s news.
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Neutrinos seen to fly faster than light
Though few physicists expect it to withstand scrutiny, confirmation of the observation would shake physics to its core.
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Atom & Cosmos
The source of the Milky Way’s spirals, a new way to spot gravitational waves and more in this week’s news.
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On Kepler-16b, shadows come in pairs
Astronomers discover a planet that orbits a pair of stars.
