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The traveling science laboratory launched successfully on Saturday and is scheduled to touch down on the red planet in August 2012
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Scientists using the Keck telescope in Hawaii have found what may be a protoplanet, the youngest planet ever found
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The Very Large Array needs a new, more exciting name
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Science is the partner of art and the quest for truth
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Before Marie Curie, these women dedicated their lives to science and made significant advances
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In 185 A.D., someone in China looked up in the night sky and saw a new star
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The planet, TrES-2b, is a gas giant about the size of Jupiter. But that's where the similarities end
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If radio messages are out, try looking for asteroid mining, planetary pollutants, or alien artifacts here on Earth
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Disney characters aside, what would you choose to join this dark and dreary mythological circle? Styx, Erberus, Cerberus, Hypnos?
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As the space shuttle program ends, a salute to some of its most surprising studies
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A new study provides insight into how convection creates sunspots
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If someone tries to sell you the Brooklyn Bridge, you know it's a hoax. But what about a meteorite, moon or star?
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I have to say, when I think about the end of the Space Shuttle program, I'm really not that sorry to see it come to a close
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