Space
We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
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Chronicles of Lutetia
The surprising composition and terrain of an asteroid may provide a variety of lessons about the solar system.
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Critics take aim at fast neutrinos
Lack of energy trail suggests faster-than-light finding was miscalculated.
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HiRISE clocks hurricane-speed winds on Mars
Orbiting camera measures swirling gusts in dust devils.
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European Planetary Science Conference and AAS Division for Planetary Sciences
News from a joint conference held October 2-7 in Nantes, France.
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Saturn’s rings tell a comet’s tale
Ripples made by a celestial impact 600 years ago can still be seen today.
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Miniplanet sports megapeak
The solar system’s second tallest mountain hides out in a crater at the south pole of the asteroid Vesta.
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Cosmic acceleration discovery wins physics Nobel
Three astrophysicists are honored for revealing the universe's accelerating expansion.
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Antennas reveal Antennae
A giant radio telescope array in Chile’s Atacama Desert produces its first images.
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Longer cosmic ruler based on black holes
A new method promises to improve the precision of extreme astronomical distance measurements.
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Messenger from Mercury
NASA orbiter returns images of odd landforms on the solar system's innermost planet.
