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We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
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New maps of the cosmic dark
Probing galactic distortions reveals web of invisible matter.
By Nadia Drake - Space
Saturn moons spied from the side
Cassini captures Titan and Dione against the sixth planet’s rings.
By Nadia Drake - Astronomy
Toasty planets circle stellar heart
Roasted remains orbit former red giant.
By Nadia Drake - 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.
By Nadia Drake - 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.
By Nadia Drake - Space
Distant world looks ripe for life
Extrasolar planet hunt spots its most Earthlike orb yet.
By Nadia Drake - Space
Christmas gamma-ray burst still puzzles
Nearly a year after receiving a spectacular celestial gift, astrophysicists are still asking: “What is it?”
By Nadia Drake - Space
Superbubble harbors cosmic rays
Stellar nursery jump-starts rays’ journey to Earth.
By Nadia Drake - Space
Super Saturnian storm
The Cassini spacecraft captured images of massive tempest in planet’s northern hemisphere.
By Nadia Drake - 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.
By Nadia Drake - Astronomy
Supernova may have kicked off solar system
Force of explosion could explain chemical mysteries contained within asteroids.
By Nadia Drake - Space
How the moon got its magnetism
Earth’s tug or asteroid impacts may have generated the ancient lunar magnetic field.
By Nadia Drake