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After a few false alarms, the star SN 2009ip appears to have gone supernova at last. John Matson rep
Six volunteers spent 520 days in a simulation of a trip to Mars, and wound up experiencing sleep dis
Opening the door to the paying public means that less healthy individuals will soon have access to s
The Cassini orbiter spotted a river system on Titan that NASA likens to a miniature version of the N
NASA has plans for another Mars rover, but no trips scheduled for exotic places like Titan or Europa
A proof-of-concept 3-D printing job using lunarlike material shows that quick-and-dirty tools or spa
Global 3-D climate simulations for plausible Martian atmospheres show that even with a much thicker
Thanks to gravitational lensing by a cluster of galaxies, the light emitted by a small galaxy 13.3 b
A planet at least seven times as massive as Earth orbits comfortably in the habitable zone of the st
Fomalhaut b looked like an exoplanet to some astronomers and like dust to others. But new analyses s
A chemical analysis of lunar samples now points to the solar wind being behind the ultrathin dusting
An analysis of the Huygens probe's sensor data has reconstructed bouncing and skidding, moments befo
A star orbiting the galactic center's black hole in just 11.5 Earth years should provide data for st
Smaller ground-based telescopes produce research results that get more citations per dollar spent th
UV light, which radiates from stars and galaxies, can induce rapid changes in icy hydrocarbon molecu
In the J0651 binary system two white dwarf stars orbit each other in less than 13 minutes--and it's
On September 5th NASA's Dawn spacecraft left the asteroid Vesta and set sail for the dwarf planet Ce
NASA's infrared WISE spacecraft found about 130 glowing black holes in a small region of space, mean
Only about 0.5 percent of Milky Way-like galaxies have companions like our satellite galaxies, the M
The twin Radiation Belt Storm Probes will fly through the Van Allen Belts for two years, measuring c
