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Martian crater may once have held groundwater-fed lake
A NASA spacecraft is providing new evidence of a wet underground environment on Mars that adds to an increasingly complex picture of the Red Planet's early evolution.
January 21, 2013
Jeffrey Paine: Retreating shoreline along Texas Gulf coast
The Texas Gulf coast is among the most dynamic environments on Earth. Jeffrey Paine talks about the retreating coastline, and the risks and value of human activity there.
January 21, 2013
A microqusar makes a giant manatee nebula
A new view of a 20,000-year old supernova remnant provides more clues to the history of this giant cloud that resembles a beloved endangered species, the Florida Manatee.
January 19, 2013
Android app for simulates eclipses
A tool for astronomy lovers that allows to know the general and local circumstances for solar and lunar eclipses and planetary transits.
January 18, 2013
A hidden treasure in the Large Magellanic Cloud
The Large Magellanic Cloud is ablaze with star-forming regions. From the Tarantula Nebula to LHA 120-N 11, part of which is featured in this image.
January 17, 2013
Heat brings earliest spring blooms on record
Unusually warm spring weather in 2010 and 2012 resulted in the earliest blooms on record in two US locations, a new study finds.
January 17, 2013
Paging Dr. Charles Dickens
Author Charles Dickens used literature to showcase discrimination against the disabled, says a TAU researcher.
January 16, 2013
Light from the darkness
An evocative new image from ESO shows a dark cloud where new stars are forming, along with a cluster of brilliant stars that have already emerged from their dusty stellar nursery.
January 16, 2013
Neon lights up exploding stars
An international team of nuclear astrophysicists has shed new light on the explosive stellar events known as novae.
January 15, 2013
What would hyperspace travel really look like?
Physics students shed new light on Millennium Falcon’s hyperdrive system – using Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity.
January 14, 2013
