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  Where Do Astronauts Go When They Need 'to Go?'

  July 10, 2013 — The first American man in space had no place "to go," and urinating in space was a tough problem for engineers to solve. A new article discusses the considerations necessary to accommodate this most ... > full story
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  Science Team Outlines Goals for NASA's 2020 Mars Rover

  July 10, 2013 — The rover NASA will send to Mars in 2020 should look for signs of past life, collect samples for possible future return to Earth, and demonstrate technology for future human exploration of the Red ... > full story
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  Fit Check Sets Stage for Orion Recovery Test

  July 7, 2013 — Engineers and technicians at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Langley Research Center in Virginia and Lockheed Martin Space Operations in Denver, Colo., prepared unique hardware that was used in a ... > full story
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  New Insights Into the Early Bombardment History on Mercury

  July 5, 2013 — Astronomers have studied the surface of Mercury to better understand if the plains were formed by volcanic flows or composed of material ejected from the planet's giant impact ... > full story
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  Variation Between Hot Extrasolar Planet Atmospheres Revealed

  July 5, 2013 — First results from the analysis of eight 'hot Jupiter' exoplanets suggest that winds and clouds play an important role in the atmospheric make up of these exotic ... > full story
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  White Dwarf Star Throws Light on Possible Variability of a Constant of Nature

  July 4, 2013 — Astronomers have studied a distant star where gravity is more than 30,000 times greater than on Earth to test the controversial theory that one of the constants of Nature is not a constant. The ... > full story
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  Space Study Opens Up New Opportunities to Explore Exotic Energy

  July 4, 2013 — Answering the ultimate question to Life, Universe and Everything? Not quite, but an international team of scientists have conducted research that opens up new possibilities for exploring what to date ... > full story
• Galaxies
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  New Knowledge About Early Galaxies

  July 3, 2013 — The early galaxies of the universe were very different from today's galaxies. Using new detailed studies carried out with the ESO Very Large Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope, researchers have ... > full story
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  Mars Rover Opportunity Passes Half-Way Point to Next Destination

  July 3, 2013 — NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has driven more than half of the distance needed to get from a site where it spent 22 months to its next ... > full story
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  Names for New Pluto Moons Accepted

  July 2, 2013 — The International Astronomical Union has officially recognized the names Kerberos and Styx for the fourth and fifth moons of Pluto respectively (formerly known as P4 and P5). These names were backed ... > full story

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