Space

  1. Space

    Lighting the universe

    Scientists rethink what the first stars were like and how they formed.

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  2. Space

    Atom & Cosmos

    A Saturnian storm, an asteroid visit, a leaky Betelgeuse and more in this week's news.

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  3. Space

    Astronomers probe matter in early universe

    Smeared light from the dawn of time confirms ideas about a mysterious dark energy permeating the cosmos.

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  4. Space

    Iapetus gets dusted

    Saturn moon gets its yin-yang surface by plowing through a ring of dust.

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  5. Space

    Most distant quasar raises questions

    Superbright object appeared surprisingly soon after the Big Bang, challenging some theories about how black holes arose.

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  6. Space

    Atom & Cosmos

    When Jupiter aligns with Mars’ moon, plus a salty Saturnian moon and an eye-catching comet in this week’s news.

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  7. Space

    A fine how-do-you-do from an asteroid

    Five days after being discovered, an interplanetary visitor passes 12,300 kilometers above Earth’s surface.

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  8. Space

    Spacecraft goes from crash landing to mission accomplished

    The wreckage of the Genesis probe yields a bonanza of discoveries about conditions in the early solar system.

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  9. Space

    NASA spacecraft puts moon in new focus

    Images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter show fine details of the lunar surface.

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  10. Space

    Atom & Cosmos

    Moons may be common, plus transforming neutrinos, new comet images and more in this week’s news.

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  11. Planetary Science

    Messages from Mercury

    The latest data from a NASA spacecraft give compositional clues and reveal craters that could hold frozen water

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  12. Space

    Next solar cycle could be a no-show

    Three lines of evidence suggest that the sun’s next activity cycle will be delayed for years and may not happen at all, an outcome that could have major implications for Earth’s climate.

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