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We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.

  1. Space

    New maps of the cosmic dark

    Probing galactic distortions reveals web of invisible matter.

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  2. Space

    Saturn moons spied from the side

    Cassini captures Titan and Dione against the sixth planet’s rings.

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  3. Astronomy

    Toasty planets circle stellar heart

    Roasted remains orbit former red giant.

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  4. Space

    First Earth-sized planets netted

    The Kepler space telescope gets one step closer to its mission of discovering habitable worlds by finding two orbs of terrestrial proportions orbiting a distant sunlike star.

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  5. Space

    Distant world looks too ripe for life

    The first extrasolar planet to be discovered in its star’s habitable zone is probably inhospitably hot.

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  6. Space

    Distant world looks ripe for life

    Extrasolar planet hunt spots its most Earthlike orb yet.

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  7. Space

    Christmas gamma-ray burst still puzzles

    Nearly a year after receiving a spectacular celestial gift, astrophysicists are still asking: “What is it?”

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  8. Space

    Superbubble harbors cosmic rays

    Stellar nursery jump-starts rays’ journey to Earth.

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  9. Space

    Super Saturnian storm

    The Cassini spacecraft captured images of massive tempest in planet’s northern hemisphere.

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  10. Space

    Lakes may lurk beneath chaos on Europa

    Pockets of liquid water underlie fractured ice on the Jupiter moon’s surface, a new study concludes.

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  11. Astronomy

    Supernova may have kicked off solar system

    Force of explosion could explain chemical mysteries contained within asteroids.

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  12. Space

    How the moon got its magnetism

    Earth’s tug or asteroid impacts may have generated the ancient lunar magnetic field.

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