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  Curiosity rover collects first interplanetary drill sample

  By Carl Franzen on February 20, 2013 06:04 pm + 9 comments

  NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover has become the first object in human history to collect a sample from Continue reading…

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  Newly discovered Moon-sized planet is the smallest ever found around a Sun-like star

  By Adi Robertson on February 20, 2013 03:14 pm + 24 comments

  NASA's Kepler space telescope has discovered a planet roughly the size of our Moon, the smallest one Continue reading…

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  Our universe could be swallowed by an alternate one, Higgs research suggests

  By Amar Toor on February 20, 2013 04:34 am + 145 comments

  Forget asteroids and global warming, because new findings from Europe's Large Hadron Collider Continue reading…

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  Astrophotographer's animated GIF displays fantastic, artistic 3D vision of a nebula

  By Dante D'Orazio on February 18, 2013 11:11 am + 13 comments

  The truly massive clouds of gas and dust that we call Nebulae are often the subjects of some Continue reading…

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  Astronaut Chris Hadfield will answer questions from Earth's orbit on Reddit at 4PM ET

  By T.C. Sottek on February 17, 2013 11:47 am + 31 comments

  Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield has been stationed in the International Space Station since Continue reading…

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  Fireball streaks across California skies: three shooting stars in one day

  By Sean Hollister on February 16, 2013 01:40 am + 88 comments

  Today, a giant meteor exploded over Russia, and a record-breaking asteroid shot past the earth. Continue reading…

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  How the discovery of pulsars helped develop a protocol for talking to aliens

  By Aaron Souppouris on February 15, 2013 06:34 am + 30 comments

  In 1967, Cambridge astronomers detected a strange radio signal coming from the distant Vulpecula Continue reading…

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  Watch live as a record-breaking asteroid passes the Earth

  By Amar Toor on February 15, 2013 05:37 am + 102 comments

  Later today, a large asteroid known as 2012 DA14 will pass within about 17,200 miles of the Earth, Continue reading…

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  NASA may have discovered youngest black hole in our galaxy

  By Carl Franzen on February 13, 2013 08:44 pm + 20 comments

  Scientists using NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescope have discovered the remnants of a supernova Continue reading…

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  Watch NASA launch Landsat 8, its latest Earth-imaging satellite, this afternoon

  By Adi Robertson on February 11, 2013 11:02 am + 6 comments

  Landsat 8, the latest of NASA's Earth-imaging satellites, is set to launch this afternoon. NASA and Continue reading…