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  Rare Stellar Alignment Offers Opportunity to Hunt for Planets

  June 3, 2013 — NASA's Hubble Space Telescope will have two opportunities in the next few years to hunt for Earth-sized planets around the red dwarf Proxima Centauri. The opportunities will occur in October 2014 and ... > full story
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  Solar System's Milky Way Neighborhood Gets More Respect

  June 3, 2013 — Our Solar System's Milky Way neighborhood just went upscale. We reside between two major spiral arms of our home galaxy, in a structure called the Local Arm. New research indicates that the Local ... > full story
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  The Greatest Place to Be a Martian: Australia?

  May 31, 2013 — Would Martians feel at home in Australia? Recent research has proven that if Martians took a holiday to Australia they might feel more at home than you’d think. Researchers have recently ... > full story
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  Radiation Measured by NASA's Curiosity on Voyage to Mars Has Implications for Future Human Missions

  May 30, 2013 — Measurements taken by NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission as it delivered the Curiosity rover to Mars in 2012 are providing NASA the information it needs to design systems to protect human ... > full story
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  Asteroid Has Its Own Moon, NASA Radar Reveals

  May 30, 2013 — A sequence of radar images of asteroid 1998 QE2 -- obtained by NASA scientists using the 230-foot (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif. -- reveals that it is a binary asteroid. ... > full story
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  Asteroids Provide Sustainable Resource, Study Finds

  May 30, 2013 — The prospects of a robotic manufacturing base operating off Earth is not as far-fetched as it used to be according to a study published by a team of NASA researchers. Because asteroids are loaded ... > full story
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  One of the Moon's Mysteries Solved: Origin of Mascon Basins

  May 30, 2013 — A mystery of the moon that imperiled astronauts and spacecraft on lunar missions has been solved. Large concentrations of mass lurk on the lunar surface that can change the gravity field and either ... > full story
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  Comet ISON Is Hurtling Toward Uncertain Destiny With Sun

  May 30, 2013 — A new series of images from Gemini Observatory shows Comet C/2012 S1 racing toward an uncomfortably close rendezvous with the Sun. In late November the comet could present a stunning sight in the ... > full story
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  Ancient Egyptians Accessorized With Meteorites

  May 30, 2013 — Researchers have found conclusive proof that Ancient Egyptians used meteorites to make symbolic accessories for their ... > full story
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  NASA's WISE Mission Finds 'Lost' Asteroid Family Members

  May 29, 2013 — Data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have led to a new and improved family tree for asteroids in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter. Astronomers used millions of infrared ... > full story

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