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Exoplanet Is Being Vaporized by Its Parent ... Using funds from the US National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada, investigators have recently detected an extrasolar planet that appears to be evaporating... [read more >>] Opportunity Survives Fifth Martian Winter NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) scientists announce that the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Opportunity is currently producing increased amounts of energy from its solar panels, after the end of the fifth winter it spent... [read more >>] New X-Ray Telescope Will Be Able to Focus When NASA launches its Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) mission, this June, the international scientific community will gain access to the first space-based X-ray observatory that can be focused. Experts expec... [read more >>] Black Hole Observed Eating a Helium-Rich Star In a paper published in the May 2 online issue of the top scientific journal Nature, astronomers reveal the most concrete evidence to date that a supermassive black hole is consuming a nearby star that was unfortunate enoug... [read more >>] Weird Star Produces Flaring Radio Emissions Recent astronomical observations found a cosmic phenomenon that shatters previous records for the lowest stellar temperature at which radio waves can be produced. Researchers were able to find flaring radio emissions coming... [read more >>] Iconic Hubble Turns 22 in Earth's Orbit The Hubble Space Telescope has just turned 22 in low-Earth orbit. Launched back on April 24, 1990, at 8:35 EDT (1235 GMT), the observatory is one of the most iconic scientific instruments in the world, having captured the i... [read more >>] 9 Worlds Found in Neighboring Star System According to the conclusions of a new scientific study, it would appear that a nearby star that could very well pass as the Sun's twin has as many as 9 extrasolar planets in orbit around it. Thus far, astronomers have ... [read more >>] Earth May Have Spread Life to Nearby Stars According to a new theory, it could be that asteroid impacts that took place in our planet's distant past shot sprays of DNA material into deep space, which may have then made its way to worlds located around nearby st... [read more >>] Moon's Water Reserves Critical for Space Explorat... The Moon is now known to have large amounts of water ice hidden in permanently shadowed craters at its South Pole. As soon as this was discovered, through an experiment conducted in 2009, scientists have begun analyzing how... [read more >>] Protoplanetary Disks Synthesize Organic Molec... In a paper published in the March 30 issue of the top journal Science, experts proposed that the organic molecules which enabled the development of life here on Earth were first formed in the protoplanetary disk around the ... [read more >>]

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