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  Additional Kepler Data Now Available to All Planet Hunters

  October 29, 2012 — Twelve additional months worth of planet-searching data meticulously collected by one of the most prolific planet-hunting endeavors ever conceived, NASA's Kepler Mission, has just been ... > full story
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  SpaceX Dragon Returns from Space Station With NASA Cargo

  October 28, 2012 — A Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) Dragon spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean at 2:22 p.m. CDT Sunday a few hundred miles west of Baja California, Mexico. The splashdown successfully ... > full story
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  'Curiosity' on Mars Sits on Rocks Similar to Those Found in Marshes in Mexico

  October 29, 2012 — Millions of years ago fire and water forged the gypsum rocks locked in at Cuatro Ciénegas, a Mexican valley similar to the Martian crater where NASA's Rover Curiosity roams. A team of ... > full story
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  Huge Procellarum Basin on the Nearside of the Moon May Be Relic Scar from Ancient Impact

  October 28, 2012 — The huge Procellarum basin on the nearside of the Moon may be a relic scar from an ancient impact event that shaped the lunar surface, reports a new ... > full story
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  Microgravity Research Coming of Age on the International Space Station

  October 28, 2012 — They say that necessity is the mother of invention, so when humans decided to build and inhabit a laboratory in the harsh environment of space, it was only natural that innovations would follow. The ... > full story
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  Hubble Sees Violent Star Formation Episodes in Dwarf Galaxies

  October 27, 2012 — The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has imaged the faint irregular galaxy NGC 3738, a starburst galaxy. The galaxy is in the midst of a violent episode of star formation, during which it is ... > full story
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  Assessing Drop-Off to Mars Rover's Observation Tray

  October 26, 2012 — NASA's Mars rover Curiosity used its Mast Camera (Mastcam) during the mission's 78th sol (Oct. 24, 2012) to view soil material on the rover's observation tray. The observations will help assess ... > full story
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  New Study Brings a Doubted Exoplanet 'Back from the Dead'

  October 25, 2012 — A second look at data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is reanimating the claim that the nearby star Fomalhaut hosts a massive exoplanet. The study suggests that the planet, named Fomalhaut b, is a ... > full story
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  Black Widow's Tango Mortale in Gamma-Ray Light: Scientists Discover Record-Breaking Millisecond Pulsar With New Analysis Method

  October 25, 2012 — Pulsars are the compact remnants from explosions of massive stars. Some of them spin around their own axis hundreds of times per second, emitting beams of radiation into space. Until now, they could ... > full story
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  Monster Galaxy May Have Been Stirred Up by Black-Hole Mischief

  October 25, 2012 — Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have obtained a remarkable new view of a whopper of an elliptical galaxy that may have been puffed up by the actions of one or more black holes in its ... > full story

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