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  Saturn's Largest Moon Titan Gets a Dune 'Makeover'

  January 17, 2013 — Titan's siblings must be jealous. While most of Saturn's moons display their ancient faces pockmarked by thousands of craters, Titan -- Saturn's largest moon -- may look much younger than it really ... > full story
• Mars
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  Nature of Water
   
  

  ChemCam Follows the 'Yellowknife Road' to Martian Wet Area

  January 16, 2013 — Researchers have tracked a trail of minerals that point to the prior presence of water at the Curiosity rover site on ... > full story
• Mars
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  NASA Mars Rover Preparing to Drill Into First Martian Rock

  January 16, 2013 — NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is driving toward a flat rock with pale veins that may hold clues to a wet history on the Red Planet. If the rock meets rover engineers' approval when Curiosity rolls up ... > full story
• Solar Flare
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  New Sunspots Producing Space Weather

  January 14, 2013 — On Jan. 13, 2013, at 2:24 a.m. EST, the sun erupted with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection or CME. Not to be confused with a solar flare, a CME is a solar phenomenon that can send solar ... > full story
• Mars
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  Saline Hiding Places for Bacteria in Río Tinto Could Be Like Those on Mars

  January 11, 2013 — Researchers have identified microorganisms that live inside salt deposits in the acidic and ferrous environment of the Tinto River in Huelva, Spain. The extreme conditions of these microniches appear ... > full story
• Weapons Technology
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  Nuclear Energy
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  NASA Researchers Studying Advanced Nuclear Rocket Technologies

  January 10, 2013 — Advanced propulsion researchers at NASA are a step closer to solving the challenge of safely sending human explorers to Mars and other solar system destinations. By using an innovative test facility ... > full story
• Extrasolar Planets
  Pluto
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  Jupiter
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  Moon
   
  

  Life Possible on Extrasolar Moons

  January 10, 2013 — In their search for habitable worlds, astronomers have started to consider exomoons, or those likely orbiting planets outside the solar system. In a new study, a pair of researchers has found that ... > full story
• Eris (Xena)
  Extrasolar Planets
  Pluto
  Kuiper Belt
  Astronomy
  Solar System
   
  

  Hubble Reveals Rogue Planetary Orbit for Fomalhaut B

  January 8, 2013 — Newly released Hubble Space Telescope images of a vast debris disk encircling the nearby star Fomalhaut and a mysterious planet circling it may provide forensic evidence of a titanic planetary ... > full story
• Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
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  Pluto
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  Evidence of Asteroid Belt Around Vega

  January 8, 2013 — Astronomers have discovered what appears to be a large asteroid belt around the star Vega, the second brightest star in northern night skies. The discovery of an asteroid belt-like band of debris ... > full story
• Extrasolar Planets
  Pluto
  Kuiper Belt
  Stars
  Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
  Solar System
   
  

  Earth-Size Planets Common in Galaxy: Perhaps 17 Percent of Sun-Like Stars Have Earth-Size Planets Within the Orbit of Mercury

  January 8, 2013 — Last year, astronomers were excited to discover that the number of exoplanets increases towards smaller sizes, which suggests that there are many Earth-size planets in the galaxy. A new analysis of ... > full story

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