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We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
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SpaceMore like Faux-malhaut b
The Spitzer Space Telescope fails to find a visible planet circling where Hubble saw one four years ago.
By Nadia Drake -
SpaceMolten blobs create moon flashes
Mysterious lunar lights are the superhot remains of meteorites pelting the surface.
By Nadia Drake -
PhysicsString theorists squeeze nine dimensions into three
A supercomputer simulation of the Big Bang’s immediate aftermath may explain why space has three directions.
By Devin Powell -
SpaceDiet of a dying star
Astronomers pinpoint what feeds a type of stellar explosion.
By Nadia Drake -
SpacePlanets as common as stars in Milky Way
A new analysis suggests the galaxy is riddled with worlds.
By Nadia Drake -
SpaceNew maps of the cosmic dark
Probing galactic distortions reveals web of invisible matter.
By Nadia Drake -
SpaceSaturn moons spied from the side
Cassini captures Titan and Dione against the sixth planet’s rings.
By Nadia Drake -
AstronomyToasty planets circle stellar heart
Roasted remains orbit former red giant.
By Nadia Drake -
SpaceFirst 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.
By Nadia Drake -
SpaceDistant 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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SpaceDistant world looks ripe for life
Extrasolar planet hunt spots its most Earthlike orb yet.
By Nadia Drake