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NASA views giant asteroid Vesta up close

Posted by Science Monday, August 1st, 2011
NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this image with its framing camera on July 23, 2011. It was taken from a distance of about 3,200 miles (5,200 kilometers) away from the giant asteroid Vesta. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA)

The Dawn science team is working to determine the significance of the distinct features of Vesta, which include large grooves extending for great distances

Mercury images provide new details about planet’s origin, makeup

Posted by Science Friday, June 17th, 2011
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Data gathered from a spacecraft currently orbiting Mercury has provided some fascinating information about the planet’s surface, composition, and activities

First habitable planet confirmed by French scientists

Posted by Science Tuesday, May 17th, 2011
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A red dwarf star 20 light-years away is again providing hints that it hosts the first definitively habitable planet outside our Solar System

NASA reports first rocky planet outside our solar system

Posted by Science Monday, January 10th, 2011
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NASA astronomers reported the first undoubtedly rocky planet outside our solar system at an astronomy meeting Monday

Is NASA covering up the 100-year starship?

Posted by Strange News Friday, October 29th, 2010
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The director of NASA’s Ames Research Center let slip mention of the 100-Year Starship recently, a new program funded by super-secret government agency, DARPA

‘Habitable’ planet found

Posted by Science Wednesday, September 29th, 2010
This undated handout artist rendering provided by Lynette Cook, National Science Foundation, shows a new planet, right. Astronomers have found a planet that is in the Goldilocks zone _ just right for life. Not too hot, not too cold. Not too far from its sun, not too close. And it is near Earth _ relatively speaking, at 120 trillion miles. It also makes scientists think that these examples of habitable planets are far more common than they thought. (AP Photo/Zina Deretsky, National Science Foundation)

U.S. astronomers said on Wednesday they have discovered an Earth-sized planet that they think might be habitable, orbiting a nearby star

Mars spacecraft bounces back from computer glitch

Posted by Mars Tuesday, September 21st, 2010
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A powerful NASA spacecraft around Mars has bounced back yet again, resuming its study of the Red Planet

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