Space
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Comet Lovejoy’s Close Encounter
When something’s on a crash course to the Sun, you don’t expect it to do anything other than burst into…
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How Far Have We Traveled Into Space?
Right now, NASA’s nuclear-powered spacecraft Voyager 1 is careening through dense solar winds on its way into interstellar space. It could…
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The Search For A New Earth
Orbiting a sun slightly smaller and dimmer than our own, a planet just over twice the size of Earth has…
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New Planets To Be Revealed Monday
It’s difficult to believe that the first verifiable detection of an extrasolar planet didn’t occur until 1992. Granted, that was about…
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The Search For Alien Worlds Continues
In our quest for life beyond Earth, have we been looking in the right places? As human beings, we are…
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Is There Life on Europa?
Scientists have long been mystified by the possibility of a liquid ocean beneath the icy and reflective surface of Jupiter’s…
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The Ends Of The World: Solar Flares
It’s unlikely that solar flares will ever lead to the end of the world. That may be an odd way…
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Astronauts Return Home From Mars Simulation
The first humans to travel to Mars returned Friday after an 18-month voyage. Of course, it was all just pretend.…
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Our Sun, The “Benevolent Monster”
In five days, what has been called a “benevolent monster” will turn to face Earth. A region of the sun…
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Asteroid 2005 YU55, Coming Toward An Earth Near You
Asteroid 2005 YU55 will make an extraordinarily close flyby of Earth on November 8, 2011, passing right inside our moon’s…
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