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NASA is go for 2016 Mars lander
New Mars InSight mission is focused downward and inward, on Mars' core, mantle and crust. It'll even probe Mars' interior.
May 21, 2014
Some sunlike stars eat Earthlike planets
Some sunlike stars are "Earth-eaters." As they form, they ingest large amounts of the rocky material from which planets like Earth, Mars and Venus are made.
May 20, 2014
Why Saturn has auroras
After a three-year observing campaign of Saturn using the Hubble Space Telescope, scientists have confirmed that auroras on Earth and Saturn have a common origin.
May 19, 2014
Scientists propose way to turn light to matter
Scientists believe light transformed to matter shortly after the Big Bang. Two UK physicists say they now know how to change light to matter here on Earth.
May 19, 2014
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is smaller than ever before seen
Jupiter's trademark Great Red Spot — a swirling anticyclonic storm feature larger than Earth — has shrunken to the smallest size ever measured.
May 15, 2014
Rosetta’s target comet is getting active
The target of ESA’s Rosetta mission has started to reveal its true personality as a comet, its dusty veil clearly developing over the last six weeks.
May 15, 2014
Astronomers find odd gas giant exoplanet traveling far from its star
The planet is about 2,000 times the Earth-sun distance from its star, a record among exoplanets. That means it takes about 80,000 Earth years for the planet to orbit its star.
May 15, 2014
Magnetars are the most powerful magnets in the universe
Magnetars are the bizarre super-dense remnants of supernova explosions and the strongest magnets known in the universe.
May 14, 2014
Watch two neutron stars rip each other apart to form a black hole
This supercomputer simulation from NASA shows one of the most violent events in the universe: Two neutron stars ripping each other apart to form black hole.
May 13, 2014
Most detailed view yet of Milky Way’s magnetic fields
Researchers have created a new map of the Milky Way's magnetic fingerprint, the magnetic fields that shape our galaxy.
May 12, 2014
