Space

  1. Space

    No new particle from second detector

    The chances that the Tevatron is producing a previously unknown particle drop substantially after the collider's DZERO experiment finds nothing extraordinary.

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  2. Space

    Superdupernovas

    A new class of stellar explosion is very bright — and somewhat hard to explain.

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  3. Space

    Atom & Cosmos

    NASA’s plans to sample an asteroid, good-bye to Spirit rover, Neptune’s spin and more in this week’s news.

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  4. Space

    Black hole jets in HD

    Images of unprecedented resolution offer insight into how black holes swallow up matter.

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  5. Space

    Good-bye Shuttle

    Looking back at the space plane’s scientific legacy

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  6. Space

    Atom & Cosmos

    NASA’s new old design for a shuttle replacement, plus Mars’ growth spurt, the most remote object and more in this week’s news.

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  7. Space

    Survey captures local universe in 3-D

    The most complete view to date of the nearby cosmos takes in 45,000 galaxies.

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  8. Space

    Atom & Cosmos

    A cosmic collision heard ‘round the world, plus Saturn storms, black hole drains and more in this week’s news.

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  9. Space

    Dark Matter meeting

    The latest science reveals few new answers on dark matter, but scientists hope for more from the Large Hadron Collider.

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  10. Astronomy

    Stellar oddballs

    Kepler spacecraft finds much more than exoplanets.

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  11. Space

    Milky Way may get an extension

    A newly discovered feature at its fringes suggests the galaxy is an uncommon beauty: One half appears to be nearly a mirror image of the other.

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  12. Space

    Atom & Cosmos

    Liquid water possible on Earthlike planet, plus black-hole atoms, Io’s magma ocean and more in this week’s news.

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