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New Horizon spacecraft wakes up for encounter with Pluto system
It's awake! On Saturday, the New Horizons spacecraft came out of hibernation, at the doorstep of Pluto.
December 8, 2014
As Dawn approaches, new image of dwarf planet Ceres
1 Ceres is the largest and most massive object in the main asteroid belt, between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Dawn will reach it in March, 2015.
December 6, 2014
Dawn Journal: Update on trek from Vesta to Ceres
Dawn spacecraft's chief engineer and mission director at JPL shares insights. Dawn due to reach Ceres in March, 2015. First spacecraft ever to orbit two planetary bodies!
December 6, 2014
Video: We are dead stars
Every atom in our bodies was processed in the body of an ancient star.
December 5, 2014
Why scientists want to find a pulsar orbiting a black hole
Discovering a pulsar orbiting a black hole is considered 'an authentic holy grail’ for testing Einstein's theory of gravity.
December 5, 2014
Does this Martian meteorite contain traces of life?
Researchers say they’ve found evidence of biological activity inside a meteorite from Mars that landed on the Moroccan desert in 2011.
December 3, 2014
Astronomers and citizen scientists discover a strange galaxy
J1649+2635 is one of only four galaxies known to have both spiral arms and jets of subatomic particles propelled outward from its core at nearly light speed.
December 3, 2014
How galaxies evolve in the cosmic web
Galaxies in thread-like filaments within the cosmic web have a much higher chance of actively forming stars. So galaxy evolution was accelerated in the filaments.
December 3, 2014
Relentless blitz of small space rocks erased much of Earth’s primordial atmosphere
The inevitable question arises: What replaced the atmosphere? It's possible the same impactors that ejected the atmosphere also introduced new gases.
December 2, 2014
Super-Earth transit detected from the ground
The astronomers say their technique should let others make ground-based characterizations of dozens of super-Earths, expected to be found in space surveys.
December 1, 2014
