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We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.

  1. Space

    Twinkle, twinkle, little dot

    A faint object was once thought to be the first extrasolar planet to be photographed. Then it wasn’t. But now it may go down in the history books after all.

    By Ron Cowen
  2. Tech

    The people’s pulsar

    Thousands of volunteers help discover a neutron star by donating the processing power in their idle home computers.

    By Rachel Ehrenberg
  3. Space

    Warning for solar flares

    Microwave bursts may serve as warning shots.

    By Sid Perkins
  4. Space

    All wet, or high and dry?

    The moon’s interior contains far less water than Earth’s, new studies of rocks collected by Apollo astronauts suggest.

    By Alexandra Witze
  5. Space

    Dark matter eldorado

    Astronomers have discovered that a nearby galaxy has the highest density of dark matter of any galaxy known.

    By Ron Cowen
  6. Earth

    Trailing dust devils

    Whirlwinds leave dark paths behind by sucking sand grains clean.

    By Sid Perkins
  7. Space

    Two is the magic number

    New experiments confirm a fundamental postulate of quantum mechanics.

    By Laura Sanders
  8. Astronomy

    Heftiest stars discovered

    At more than 200 times sun’s mass, this giant sets a new record.

    By Ron Cowen
  9. Planetary Science

    Hole from on high

    Researchers discover a fresh meteorite impact crater using Google Earth.

    By Sid Perkins
  10. Space

    Taming time travel

    New work is solving paradoxes by making the impossible impossible.

    By Laura Sanders
  11. Space

    Snapshots of the past

    The Rosetta spacecraft returns images of asteroid 21 Lutetia.

    By Gwyneth Dickey
  12. Planetary Science

    Up close and personal with an asteroid

    The Rosetta orbiter makes its second swing past a relic of the early solar system.

    By Gwyneth Dickey