Frigid water cloud may be source of water delivered to dry planets by comets
Snapshot
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Dark matter mystery deepens
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Infrared survey reveals fewer near-Earth asteroids than previously thought
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Transiting exoplanet survey satellite
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Crab pulsar dazzles astronomers with its gamma-ray beams
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Center for Astrophysics project gets first look through new ALMA telescope
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From Star Wars to science fact: Tatooine-like planet discovered
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Smithsonian’s Dibner Library acquires astronomy volume published in 1570
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Our galaxy might hold thousands of ticking “time bombs”
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Swift satellite alerts astronomers to cosmic accident in constellation Draco
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“Falling to Earth: An Apollo 15 Astronaut’s Journey to the Moon” by Al Worden with Francis French
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Darkest known exoplanet, a Jupiter-sized gas giant, discovered
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Gale Crater to be landing site for NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory
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Exoplanet aurora: An out-of-this-world sight
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Stellar eclipse gives glimpse of exoplanet: New data reveals a ‘super-Earth’ next door, astronomically speaking
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Astronomers find two white-dwarf stars locked in death spiral
