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Where to Land on the Red Planet? That's the Choice for Mars 2020 Rover Team.
October 16, 2018 | ArticleNASA's next Mars spacecraft will soon know its landing site, as scientists meet to debate the relative merits of four final contenders. The mission will investigate whether the Red Planet ever hosted life.
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Image of the Day
October 16, 2018 | Image AlbumThe Milky Way glitters over Earth's orange glow in this photo captured by one of the International Space Station's external cameras. This orange glow appears when solar radiation interacts with molecules in Earth's atmosphere.
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Record Breaker: 4 Huge Alien Planets Spotted Around Baby Star
October 16, 2018 | ArticleIn an astronomical first, four gigantic planets have been detected around a very young star, a new study reports.
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Hunting for Mini-Moons: Exomoons Could Have Satellites of Their Own
October 16, 2018 | ArticleMoons could possess moons of their own. Kepler-1625b-i, a newfound candidate to be a giant alien moon, may even possess one or more moons that once had habitable surfaces, a new study finds.
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Stephen Hawking's Final Paper Was Just Released
October 16, 2018 | ArticleStephen Hawking's final paper provides a possible way to measure how black holes store information
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The Higgs Boson May Have Saved Our Universe from Cosmic Collapse. For Now.
October 16, 2018 | ArticleDark energy may be decreasing, which puts a crimp in the notion that the universe will expand forever.
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NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory Bouncing Back from Glitch
October 15, 2018 | ArticleNASA has identified the glitch that sent its Chandra X-ray Observatory into a protective safe mode last Wednesday (Oct. 10). The scope should be up and running again next week, agency officials said.
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A Blue-Velvet Universe: Very Large Telescope Captures Invisible Glow of Deep Space
October 15, 2018 | ArticleThe whole sky appears to glow in a new photo from the European Southern Observatory.
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Hubble Space Telescope Should Be Back in Action Soon
October 13, 2018 | ArticleNASA's Hubble Space Telescope shouldn't be sidelined for too much longer. Mission team members are working to get a balky gyroscope online, but Hubble can operate without it if needed, agency officials said.
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NASA's Kepler Planet-Hunting Space Telescope Wakes Up Again
October 13, 2018 | ArticleNASA's Kepler space telescope, which has discovered more than 2,600 alien planets to date, emerged from yet another slumber Thursday (Oct. 11).
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