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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
• Pluto
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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
• Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
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  Comet ISON Brings Holiday Fireworks

  July 2, 2013 — Superficially resembling a skyrocket, Comet ISON is hurtling toward the Sun at 48,000 miles per hour. In May 2013, the comet was 403 million miles from Earth, between the orbits of Mars and ... > full story
• Extrasolar Planets
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  Cloud Behavior Expands Habitable Zone of Alien Planets

  July 1, 2013 — A new study that calculates the influence of cloud behavior on climate doubles the number of potentially habitable planets orbiting red dwarfs, the most common type of stars in the ... > full story
• Astronomy
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  NASA Decommissions Its Galaxy Hunter Spacecraft

  July 1, 2013 — NASA has turned off its Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) after a decade of operations in which the venerable space telescope used its ultraviolet vision to study hundreds of millions of galaxies ... > full story
• Astrophysics
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  The Quantum Secret to Alcohol Reactions in Space

  June 30, 2013 — Chemists have discovered that an 'impossible' reaction at cold temperatures actually occurs with vigor, which could change our understanding of how alcohols are formed and destroyed in ... > full story
• Sun
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  NASA Launches Satellite to Study How Sun's Atmosphere Is Energized

  June 28, 2013 — NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) spacecraft launched Thursday at 7:27 p.m. PDT (10:27 p.m. EDT) from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. The mission to study the solar atmosphere was ... > full story
• Extrasolar Planets
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  Gas-Giant Exoplanets Cling Close to Their Parent Stars

  June 27, 2013 — Gemini Observatory's Planet-Finding Campaign finds that, around many types of stars, distant gas-giant planets are rare and prefer to cling close to their parent stars. The impact on theories of ... > full story
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  NASA's Voyager 1 Explores Final Frontier of Our 'Solar Bubble'

  June 27, 2013 — Data from Voyager 1, now more than 11 billion miles (18 billion kilometers) from the sun, suggest the spacecraft is closer to becoming the first human-made object to reach interstellar ... > full story
• Space Station
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  New Flame Trench Will Support New Era at Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39B

  June 27, 2013 — For the first time since NASA's Apollo-era rockets and space shuttles lifted off on missions from Launch Complex 39 at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, one of the launch pads is undergoing extensive ... > full story

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