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  NASA's Kepler mission finds the most Earth-like planets yet

  By Adi Robertson on April 18, 2013 03:29 pm + 43 comments

  Scientists have found what they believe are the two most Earth-like exoplanets yet, shedding new Continue reading…

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  Researchers discover a new farthest supernova from Earth

  By Jacob Kastrenakes on April 4, 2013 12:08 pm + 11 comments

  Ten billion years ago, a star exploded with the intrinsic brightness of 1 billion of our suns, and 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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  Witness a star explode over 58 years in this time-lapse video

  By Chris Welch on January 24, 2013 03:34 pm + 26 comments

  It was in 1901 — 112 long years ago — that the star GK Persei first exploded in a spectacular Continue reading…

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  Five planets possibly found around Tau Ceti, one in habitable zone, researchers say

  By Adi Robertson on December 19, 2012 02:25 pm + 16 comments

  Tau Ceti, one of the closest Sun-like stars to our own solar system, may support five planets, says Continue reading…

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  Watch this: 360-degree view of the night sky captured with fisheye lens

  By Nathan Ingraham on November 26, 2012 09:04 am + 6 comments

  While time-lapse videos may be a dime a dozen these days, French photographer Stephane Vetter put Continue reading…

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  Tom Hardy set to star in upcoming 'Splinter Cell' movie

  By Sam Byford on November 15, 2012 01:05 am + 43 comments

  Tom Hardy, the British actor recently seen on screen as Bane in The Dark Knight Rises, has signed on Continue reading…

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  Twitter's 'favorite' button renamed 'star' for a few users, 'likes' coming as well?

  By Dante D'Orazio on October 23, 2012 12:40 pm + 17 comments

  Twitter's long-standing "favorite" button looks to be getting a bit of a refresh, as The Next Web h Continue reading…

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  New Hubble space telescope image peers 13 billion years back in time

  By Louis Goddard on September 26, 2012 05:55 am + 24 comments

  A new composite image published by NASA shows some galaxies as they were 13.2 billion years ago, Continue reading…

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  10 billion years in 78 seconds: scientists use supercomputer to model universe

  By Louis Goddard on August 17, 2012 10:17 am + 20 comments

  Forget SimCity — scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) and the Continue reading…