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  Clays on Mars: More Plentiful Than Expected

  December 20, 2012 — A new study indicates that clay minerals, rocks that usually form when water is present for long periods of time, cover a larger portion of Mars than previously ... > full story
• Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
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  Meteorite Triggered Scientific 'Gold Rush'

  December 20, 2012 — A meteorite that exploded as a fireball over California's Sierra foothills this past spring was among the fastest, rarest meteorites known to have hit the Earth, and it traveled a highly eccentric ... > full story

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  • New Meteorite Suggests That Asteroid Surfaces More Complex Than Previously Thought
• Stars
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  Astronomy: Stars Reveal the Secret of Aging Well

  December 19, 2012 — Some people are in great shape at the age of 90, while others are decrepit before they're 50. We know that how fast people age is only loosely linked to how old they actually are -- and may have more ... > full story
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  Mars Curiosity Rover Explores 'Yellowknife Bay'

  December 19, 2012 — The NASA Mars rover Curiosity this week is driving within a shallow depression called "Yellowknife Bay," providing information to help researchers choose a rock to ... > full story
• Extrasolar Planets
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  Closest Single Star Like Our Sun May Have Habitable Planet

  December 19, 2012 — An international team of astronomers has discovered that Tau Ceti, one of the closest and most Sun-like stars, may host five planets -- with one in the star's habitable ... > full story
• Saturn
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  From Cassini for the Holidays: Backlit View of Saturn and Its Rings

  December 18, 2012 — Just in time for the holidays, NASA's Cassini spacecraft, in orbit around Saturn for more than eight years now, has delivered another glorious, backlit view of the planet Saturn and its ... > full story
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  Shot Away from Its Companion, Giant Star Makes Waves: Spitzer Captures Infrared Portrait

  December 18, 2012 — Like a ship plowing through still waters, the giant star Zeta Ophiuchi is speeding through space, making waves in the dust ahead. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has captured a dramatic, infrared ... > full story
• Black Holes
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  From Super to Ultra: Just How Big Can Black Holes Get?

  December 18, 2012 — Some of the biggest black holes in the Universe may actually be even bigger than previously thought, according to a study using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray ... > full story
• Dark Matter
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  Are We Closing in on Dark Matter?

  December 18, 2012 — More than 100 cosmologists, particle physicists and observational astrophysicists are now united in the hunt to determine what is dark matter. Their goal: to take stock of the latest theories and ... > full story
• Stars
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  'Glitch’ In Pulsar ‘glitch’ Theory

  December 18, 2012 — Researchers have called in to question a 40 year-old theory explaining the periodic speeding up or ‘glitching’ of pulsars. A pulsar is a highly magnetized rotating neutron star formed ... > full story

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