Space
We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
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First 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.
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Distant 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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Christmas gamma-ray burst still puzzles
Nearly a year after receiving a spectacular celestial gift, astrophysicists are still asking: “What is it?”
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Super Saturnian storm
The Cassini spacecraft captured images of massive tempest in planet’s northern hemisphere.
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Lakes may lurk beneath chaos on Europa
Pockets of liquid water underlie fractured ice on the Jupiter moon’s surface, a new study concludes.
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Supernova may have kicked off solar system
Force of explosion could explain chemical mysteries contained within asteroids.
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How the moon got its magnetism
Earth’s tug or asteroid impacts may have generated the ancient lunar magnetic field.
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Atom & Cosmos
An asteroid's star turn, a 520-day mission to nowhere and the brightest millisecond pulsar ever.
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Mars’ history is a fluid situation
Recent data from two spacecraft suggest the planet was mostly dry and cold, with a wet, warm subsurface.
