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We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
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SpaceDawn on Vesta
New image from NASA asteroid mission reveals a relic of the early solar system.
By Nadia Drake -
SpaceLighting the universe
Scientists rethink what the first stars were like and how they formed.
By Ron Cowen -
SpaceAtom & Cosmos
A Saturnian storm, an asteroid visit, a leaky Betelgeuse and more in this week's news.
By Science News -
SpaceAstronomers probe matter in early universe
Smeared light from the dawn of time confirms ideas about a mysterious dark energy permeating the cosmos.
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SpaceIapetus gets dusted
Saturn moon gets its yin-yang surface by plowing through a ring of dust.
By Nadia Drake -
SpaceMost distant quasar raises questions
Superbright object appeared surprisingly soon after the Big Bang, challenging some theories about how black holes arose.
By Nadia Drake -
SpaceAtom & Cosmos
When Jupiter aligns with Mars’ moon, plus a salty Saturnian moon and an eye-catching comet in this week’s news.
By Science News -
SpaceA fine how-do-you-do from an asteroid
Five days after being discovered, an interplanetary visitor passes 12,300 kilometers above Earth’s surface.
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SpaceSpacecraft goes from crash landing to mission accomplished
The wreckage of the Genesis probe yields a bonanza of discoveries about conditions in the early solar system.
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SpaceNASA spacecraft puts moon in new focus
Images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter show fine details of the lunar surface.
By Nadia Drake -
SpaceAtom & Cosmos
Moons may be common, plus transforming neutrinos, new comet images and more in this week’s news.
By Science News -
Planetary ScienceMessages from Mercury
The latest data from a NASA spacecraft give compositional clues and reveal craters that could hold frozen water
By Ron Cowen