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Latest News On Moon and Space Science
Caltech Astronomer Finds Planets in Unusually Intimate Dance around Dying Star Hundreds of extrasolar planets have been found over the past decade and a half, most of them solitary worlds orbiting their parent star in seeming iso...
Stars Just Got Bigger: A 300 Solar Mass Star UncoveredUsing a combination of instruments on ESO's Very Large Telescope, astronomers have discovered the most massive stars to date, one weighing at birth mo...
Caltech Team Finds Evidence of Water in Moon MineralsThat dry, dusty moon overhead? Seems it isn't quite as dry as it's long been thought to be. Although you won't find oceans, lakes, or even a shallow p...
See Beautiful Ontario Lacus: Cassini's Guided TourOntario Lacus, the largest lake in the southern hemisphere of Saturn's moon Titan, turns out to be a perfect exotic vacation spot, provided you can ha...
Core values set new date for birth of the EarthThe Earth could be up to 70 million years younger than scientists previously thought, a study has found. An international team of researchers used geo...
Saturn Propellers Reflect Solar System OriginsScientists using NASA's Cassini spacecraft at Saturn have stalked a new class of moons in the rings of Saturn that create distinctive propeller-shaped...
A Closer Look at Daphnis, Saturn's moonNASA's Cassini spacecraft has captured the closest images of Saturn's moon Daphnis to date. In these raw images obtained on July 5, 2010, the moon can...
R Coronae Australis: A Cosmic WatercolorThe star R Coronae Australis lies in one of the nearest and most spectacular star-forming regions. This portrait was taken by the Wide Field Imager (W...
Reiner Gamma Region of InterestFirst identified by early astronomers during the Renaissance, the Reiner Gamma formation has been a subject of intense scientific study for almost fiv...
Modeling the atmosphere of Titan at the advanced light sourceMost life can't use stable nitrogen molecules unless they're fixed in reactive compounds, so nitrogenated organic compounds are essential constituents...
Man in the Moon has 'Graphite Whiskers'In a new analysis of a lunar sample collected by Apollo 17, researchers have detected and dated carbon on the moon in the form of graphite - the sooty...
A Cool Look at a Lunar CraterMini-RF, a synthetic aperture radar on board NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, recently imaged a potentially ice-rich crater near the north pole of...
Saturn System Moves Oxygen From Enceladus to TitanComplex interactions between Saturn and its satellites have led scientists using NASA's Cassini spacecraft to a comprehensive model that could explain...
Mitochondrial genome analysis revises view of the initial peopling of North AmericaThe initial peopling of North America from Asia occurred approximately 15,000-18,000 years ago, however estimations of the genetic diversity of the fi...
NASA Instrument Will Identify Clues to Martian PastNASA's Curiosity rover, coming together for a late 2011 launch to Mars, has a newly installed component: a key onboard X-ray instrument for helping th...
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