Space
We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
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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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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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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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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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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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NASA spacecraft puts moon in new focus
Images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter show fine details of the lunar surface.
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Atom & Cosmos
Moons may be common, plus transforming neutrinos, new comet images and more in this week’s news.
- 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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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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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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Superdupernovas
A new class of stellar explosion is very bright — and somewhat hard to explain.
