Space

  1. Planets

    Curiosity’s watery find

    Mars rover finds rocks that show where water once flowed.

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  2. Space

    Super star-maker

    A distant galaxy cluster churns out stars at a whopping rate.

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  3. Space

    The first moon walker

    Forty-five years ago, an American astronaut climbed down the ladder of his lunar landing module — the Eagle — and became the first human to touch the moon’s surface.

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  4. Tech

    Curiosity lands on Mars!

    NASA successfully delivered a $2.5 billion robotic vehicle to Mars, one that will explore for signs that the planet might once have hosted life

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  5. Space

    An invisible cosmic bridge

    Astronomers find strange stuff in the space between two clusters of galaxies.

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  6. Space

    Life beyond Earth

    Are we alone? Scientists search for an extraterrestrial answer.

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  7. Space

    Galactic mashup

    Save the date: The Milky Way will merge with its nearest large neighbor in about 4 billion years.

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  8. Space

    Black hole’s big gulp

    Astronomers say a bright flare in space shows where a black hole tore apart a star.

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  9. Physics

    Dark matter search turns up empty

    Star study suggests our cosmic neighborhood may be lacking invisible matter.

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  10. Space

    Martian devil

    Giant whirlwind photographed as it snakes its way across a plain in northern Mars

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  11. Space

    ‘Ruler’ to measure space

    Study of energy waves formed during the Big Bang supports Einstein’s prediction that a strange, invisible force is pushing the universe apart.

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  12. Planets

    Worlds beyond the solar system

    Planet hunters have found hundreds of exoplanets, but none just like Earth.

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