Space

  1. Space

    Moon shrinks

    New pictures expand evidence of the moon’s shrinkage over the past billion years.

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  2. Planetary Science

    Worldwide slowdown in plant carbon uptake

    A decade of droughts has stifled the increasing growth of terrestrial vegetation.

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  3. Space

    Mining for Missing Matter

    In underground lairs, physicists look for the dark stuff.

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  4. Astronomy

    Celestial wish list

    A panel of astronomers ranks proposed astrophysics projects for the coming decade.

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  5. Space

    Twinkle, twinkle, little dot

    A faint object was once thought to be the first extrasolar planet to be photographed. Then it wasn’t. But now it may go down in the history books after all.

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  6. Tech

    The people’s pulsar

    Thousands of volunteers help discover a neutron star by donating the processing power in their idle home computers.

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  7. Space

    Warning for solar flares

    Microwave bursts may serve as warning shots.

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  8. Space

    All wet, or high and dry?

    The moon’s interior contains far less water than Earth’s, new studies of rocks collected by Apollo astronauts suggest.

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  9. Space

    Dark matter eldorado

    Astronomers have discovered that a nearby galaxy has the highest density of dark matter of any galaxy known.

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  10. Earth

    Trailing dust devils

    Whirlwinds leave dark paths behind by sucking sand grains clean.

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  11. Space

    Two is the magic number

    New experiments confirm a fundamental postulate of quantum mechanics.

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  12. Astronomy

    Heftiest stars discovered

    At more than 200 times sun’s mass, this giant sets a new record.

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