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Signal Blip Sparks False Alarm for NASA's Opportunity Rover on Mars
November 16, 2018 | ArticleNo, NASA's Opportunity rover has not awakened from its long slumber on Mars.
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November 16, 2018 | Image AlbumA vapor cone forms around the nose of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in this amazing photo from the Nov. 15, 2018 launch of the Es'Hail-2 communications satellite from Pad 39A of NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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Superbrilliant Galaxy Got Its Energy by Gobbling Up Its Neighbors
November 15, 2018 | ArticleThe most luminous galaxy known appears to have devoured three smaller galaxies at the same time, revealing details about why it shone so brightly.
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Epic Crash of Neutron Stars Creates 'Hypermassive Magnetar'
November 15, 2018 | ArticleThe historic neutron-star crash that astronomers observed last year generated a hypermassive, supermagnetic neutron star, a recent study suggests.
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How Satellites Are Tracking Devastation of California Wildfires from Space
November 15, 2018 | ArticleThe late-season Camp wildfire is still raging across Northern California, but firefighters are gradually corralling the Woolsey Fire, which has burned swaths of Southern California.
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Lost Continents Beneath Antarctica Unveiled in Dead Satellite's Data
November 15, 2018 | ArticleAncient continents were found under Antarctic ice, thanks to old data from a now-dead European satellite.
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Interstellar Object 'Oumuamua Is Probably a Small, Surprisingly Shiny Comet
November 15, 2018 | ArticleThe history-making interstellar visitor 'Oumuamua is a relatively small and reflective object, a new study suggests.
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In Pictures: The Giant Crater Beneath Greenland Explained
November 14, 2018 | Image AlbumScientists think they have spotted a giant impact crater hiding below Greenland's ice sheet. Here's how the discovery played out.
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Scientists Spot What May Be a Giant Impact Crater Hidden Under Greenland Ice
November 14, 2018 | ArticleEarth hides its scars well; the planet has endured countless millennia of eruptions and collisions, but scientists are still stumbling upon the evidence of all that geologic drama.
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Barnard's Star b: What We Know About Nearby 'Super-Earth' Planet Candidate
November 14, 2018 | CountdownThere appears to be a cold "super-Earth" planet circling Barnard's Star, which lies just 6 light-years from the sun. Here's what you should know about the newfound planet candidate.
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