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  NASA to launch planet-hunting mission with Google-backed satellite

  By Amar Toor on April 6, 2013 09:09 am + 24 comments

  NASA this week announced plans to launch two new projects: a mission to search for new planets, and Continue reading…

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  Scientists discover a new class of mini-supernova

  By Jeff Blagdon on March 27, 2013 03:33 am + 18 comments

  Astronomers have found a new kind of miniature supernova so comparatively small that some only shine Continue reading…

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  NASA's discovery of third radiation belt around Earth will mean 'rewriting textbooks'

  By Jeff Blagdon on March 1, 2013 04:10 am + 62 comments

  Scientists used to think that the Van Allen belts — two nested rings of charged particles Continue reading…

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  Turning solar flares into music, for science

  By Jacob Kastrenakes on February 14, 2013 11:24 am + 2 comments

  Robert Alexander doesn't just look at the stars — he listens to them. Using the process of Continue reading…

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  First images from the 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera (Fermilab)

  on September 18, 2012 11:26 pm

  Fermilab is posting the first images obtained by the new 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera. The Continue reading…

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  570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera is the new king of cosmic imaging

  By Jeff Blagdon on September 18, 2012 11:26 pm + 15 comments

  While it’s believed to make up 75 percent of the content of the universe, precious little is known Continue reading…

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  The universe is smooth, not a fractal at large scales, say astronomers

  By Jeff Blagdon on August 23, 2012 08:59 am + 104 comments

  A new paper confirms a conventional picture of the universe, one that is smooth and homogeneous at Continue reading…

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  Watch this: 'God, the Universe and Everything Else' with Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking and Arthur C. Clarke

  By Aaron Souppouris on July 22, 2012 03:09 pm + 32 comments

  What better way to spend an hour than watching three of the greatest minds of our time discussing Continue reading…

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  Soviet Luna 24 probe found water on the Moon in 1976, researcher says

  By Adi Robertson on May 30, 2012 09:54 am + 12 comments

  Though it's now widely accepted that water (in the form of ice) exists on the Moon, it took multiple Continue reading…

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  UK Met Office will start forecasting weather on distant exoplanets and 'space weather'

  By Adi Robertson on March 30, 2012 01:16 pm + 7 comments

  The Met Office, the UK's national weather service, is looking to expand its range well beyond Continue reading…