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We summarize the week's science breakthroughs every Thursday.
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Magnetic waves bake the sun’s corona
New observations may explain why the sun’s outer atmosphere is so blazing hot.
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Atom & Cosmos
A solar sneeze, a superhot planet, the death of a comet and more in this week’s news.
By Science News - Space
Going where no Mars rover has gone before
NASA's next Mars mission, Curiosity, will land in the Red Planet's Gale Crater.
By Nadia Drake - Space
Atom & Cosmos
Runaway planets, the return of Neptune and tricky antineutrinos in this week’s news.
By Science News - Space
Dawn on Vesta
New image from NASA asteroid mission reveals a relic of the early solar system.
By Nadia Drake - Space
Lighting the universe
Scientists rethink what the first stars were like and how they formed.
By Ron Cowen - Space
Atom & Cosmos
A Saturnian storm, an asteroid visit, a leaky Betelgeuse and more in this week's news.
By Science News - Space
Astronomers probe matter in early universe
Smeared light from the dawn of time confirms ideas about a mysterious dark energy permeating the cosmos.
- Space
Iapetus gets dusted
Saturn moon gets its yin-yang surface by plowing through a ring of dust.
By Nadia Drake - Space
Most distant quasar raises questions
Superbright object appeared surprisingly soon after the Big Bang, challenging some theories about how black holes arose.
By Nadia Drake - Space
Atom & Cosmos
When Jupiter aligns with Mars’ moon, plus a salty Saturnian moon and an eye-catching comet in this week’s news.
By Science News - 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.