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  Three Super-Earth-Size Planets Found in 'Habitable Zone'

  April 18, 2013 — NASA's Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the "habitable zone," the range of distance from a star where the surface temperature of ... > full story

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  • New Earth-Like Planets Found Orbiting a Sun-Like Star
  • New Techniques Allow Discovery of Smallest Super-Earth Exoplanets
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  X-Ray View of a Thousand-Year-Old Cosmic Tapestry

  April 17, 2013 — A long Chandra observation reveals the SN 1006 supernova remnant in exquisite detail. By overlapping 10 different pointings of Chandra's field-of-view, astronomers have stitched together a cosmic ... > full story
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  How to Target an Asteroid

  April 17, 2013 — Like many of his colleagues at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., Shyam Bhaskaran is working a lot with asteroids these days. And also like many of his colleagues, the deep space ... > full story
• Geomagnetic Storms
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  NASA's Wind Mission Encounters 'SLAMS' Waves

  April 16, 2013 — To tease out what happens at that boundary of the magnetosphere and to better understand how radiation and energy from the sun can cross it and move closer to Earth, NASA launches spacecraft into ... > full story
• Saturn
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  Titan's Methane: Going, Going, Soon to Be Gone?

  April 15, 2013 — By tracking a part of the surface of Saturn's moon Titan over several years, NASA's Cassini mission has found a remarkable longevity to the hydrocarbon lakes on the moon's ... > full story
• Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
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  NASA-Funded Asteroid Tracking Sensor Passes Key Test

  April 15, 2013 — An infrared sensor that could improve NASA's future detecting and tracking of asteroids and comets has passed a critical design ... > full story
• Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
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  Update: Comet to Make Close Flyby of Red Planet in October 2014

  April 15, 2013 — New observations of comet C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) have allowed NASA's Near-Earth Object Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. to further refine the comet's ... > full story
• Earth Science
  Environmental Issues
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  New Technique Measures Evaporation Globally

  April 11, 2013 — Researchers have developed the first method to map evaporation globally using weather stations, which will help scientists evaluate water resource management, assess recent trends of evaporation ... > full story
• Space Station
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  NASA's Asteroid Initiative: Robotically Capture Small Near-Earth Asteroid and Explore It

  April 11, 2013 — NASA's FY2014 budget proposal includes a plan to robotically capture a small near-Earth asteroid and redirect it safely to a stable orbit in the Earth-moon system where astronauts can visit and ... > full story
• Stars
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  Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
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  Retired Star Found With Planets and Debris Disc

  April 9, 2013 — The European Space Agency's Herschel space observatory has provided the first images of a dust belt -- produced by colliding comets or asteroids -- orbiting a subgiant star known to host a planetary ... > full story

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