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NASA Selects Missions To Explore Two Large Asteroids And Search For Earth-Like Planets
December 24, 2001 — Two new NASA missions, selected in the agency's Discovery Program, promise to bring staples of science- fiction stories to reality. The missions are Dawn, slated for launch in 2006, which will ... > full story -
Simulation Explains Mystery Of Giant Planets' Tiny Moons
December 3, 2001 — In what could be the ultimate in fast-forward, Cornell University planetary scientists have used one of the world's most powerful computing clusters to simulate motions of the small moons of ... > full story -
Hubble Space Telescope Makes First Direct Measurements Of Atmosphere On World Around Another Star
November 28, 2001 — Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have made the first direct detection of the atmosphere of a planet orbiting a star outside our solar system and have obtained the first information ... > full story -
More Planets Emerge With Solar System-Like Orbits
October 16, 2001 — An international team of astronomers has discovered eight new extrasolar planets, bringing to nearly 80 the number of planets found orbiting nearby stars. The latest discoveries, supported by the ... > full story -
Earth's Light Show Is A Clue To Finding Habitable Neighbors
August 30, 2001 — Viewed from a star in some other corner of the galaxy, Earth would be a speck, a faint blue dot hidden in the blazing light of our sun. Would there be any hint of that speck's amazing diversity ... > full story -
Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) Spacecraft Sees Solar System Under Construction
August 21, 2001 — A nearby young star recently gave birth to millions of comets, according to new observations using NASA's Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) spacecraft. The result provides clues to ... > full story -
Jupiter-Size Planet Found Orbiting Star In Big Dipper
August 16, 2001 — A team of astronomers has found a Jupiter-size planet in a circular orbit around a faint nearby star, raising intriguing prospects of finding a solar system with characteristics similar to our ... > full story -
Stellar Apocalypse Yields First Evidence Of Water-Bearing Worlds Beyond Our Solar System
July 12, 2001 — As an alien sun blazes through its death throes, it is apparently vaporizing a surrounding swarm of comets, releasing a huge cloud of water vapor. The discovery, reported in an article to be ... > full story -
Brown Dwarfs Are Stellar Embryos Evicted By Siblings, According To Study
July 2, 2001 — Brown dwarfs, essentially stunted stars, were most likely ejected from newborn, multiple-star systems before they had a chance to accumulate enough mass to ignite the hydrogen in their interiors and ... > full story -
Hint Of Planet-Sized Drifters Bewilders Hubble Scientists
June 28, 2001 — Piercing the heart of a globular star cluster with its needle-sharp vision, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered tantalizing clues to what could potentially be a strange and unexpected ... > full story
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