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• Black Holes
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  Milky Way Black Hole Snacks on Hot Gas

  May 7, 2013 — The Herschel space observatory has made detailed observations of surprisingly hot gas that may be orbiting or falling towards the supermassive black hole lurking at the center of our Milky Way ... > full story
• Mars
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  Wind, Not Water, Formed Mound on Mars, New Analysis Suggests

  May 6, 2013 — Researchers suggest that Mars' roughly 3.5-mile high Mount Sharp most likely emerged as strong winds carried dust and sand into Gale Crater where the mound sits. If correct, the research could dilute ... > full story
• Mars
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  Studying Meteorites May Reveal Mars' Secrets of Life

  May 1, 2013 — In an effort to determine if conditions were ever right on Mars to sustain life, a team of scientists has examined a meteorite that formed on the Red Planet more than a billion years ... > full story
• Mars
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  Mars Opportunity Rover in Standby as Commanding Moratorium Ends

  April 30, 2013 — During a moratorium on commanding this month while Mars passed nearly behind the sun -- a phase called solar conjunction -- NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity entered a type of standby ... > full story
• NASA
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  Herschel Completes Its 'Cool' Journey in Space

  April 30, 2013 — The Herschel observatory, a European space telescope for which NASA helped build instruments and process data, has stopped making observations after running out of liquid coolant as expected. The ... > full story
• Saturn
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  NASA Probe Gets Close-Up Views of Large Hurricane on Saturn

  April 30, 2013 — NASA's Cassini spacecraft has provided scientists the first close-up, visible-light views of a behemoth hurricane swirling around Saturn's north pole. In high-resolution pictures and video, ... > full story
• Saturn
  Solar System
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  NASA Probe Observes Meteors Colliding With Saturn's Rings

  April 25, 2013 — NASA's Cassini spacecraft has provided the first direct evidence of small meteoroids breaking into streams of rubble and crashing into Saturn's rings. These observations make Saturn's rings the only ... > full story
• NASA
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  NASA Successfully Launches Three Smartphone Satellites

  April 22, 2013 — Three smartphones destined to become low-cost satellites rode to space April 21, 2013 aboard the maiden flight of Orbital Science Corp.'s Antares rocket from NASA's Wallops Island Flight Facility in ... > full story
• Extrasolar Planets
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  Pluto
  NASA
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  Three Super-Earth-Size Planets Found in 'Habitable Zone'

  April 18, 2013 — NASA's Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the "habitable zone," the range of distance from a star where the surface temperature of ... > full story

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  • New Earth-Like Planets Found Orbiting a Sun-Like Star
  • New Techniques Allow Discovery of Smallest Super-Earth Exoplanets
• Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
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  How to Target an Asteroid

  April 17, 2013 — Like many of his colleagues at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., Shyam Bhaskaran is working a lot with asteroids these days. And also like many of his colleagues, the deep space ... > full story

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