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LIGO Lasers Could Help Reveal Aftermath of Black Hole CrashesA powerful scientific tool set to come online in 2015 could help scientists spot gravitational waves, ripples in space-time born from violent cosmic crashes light-years from Earth.
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Geocentrism Myth Promoted in New Documentary TrailerA new documentary trailer making its way around the Internet this week seems to make the case for a long-outdated theory about how the universe works.
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Our Universe May Exist in a Multiverse, Cosmic Inflation Discovery Suggests -
You Can Name a Mars Crater, but Astronomy Group Spoils the Fun -
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Spacesuit Leak That Nearly Drowned Astronaut Could Have Been Avoided -
Huge Peanut-Shaped Asteroid Buzzes Earth in NASA VideoNASA watched as a large, peanut-shaped asteroid flew past Earth in early February, and you can see the impressive images in a new video released by the space agency.
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Sun Unleashes Monster Solar Flare, Biggest of 2014The sun erupted with a major solar flare on Tuesday (Feb. 25), an X4.9 solar flare that is the biggest sun storms of the year. See how a familiar sunspot triggered the massive solar storm here.
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Valentine's Day Full Moon Rises Friday for Snowy SweetheartsA full moon is rising for lovers on Valentine's Day and it will be a Snow Moon. If weather permits, look up on Friday (Feb. 14) to see the full moon shining brightly in the winter sky.
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Ancient Star May Be Oldest in Known UniverseAstronomers may have found the oldest known star in the universe. The ancient star formed not long after the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago, according to Australian National University scientists.
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NASA Spacecraft Snaps More than 200,000 Photos of Mercury (Image)A probe orbiting Mercury has beamed more than 200,000 images to ground controllers on Earth, and it's still going strong.
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Peer Inside an Asteroid: Peanut-Shaped Space Rock's Insides Revealed (Photos)The innards of an asteroid in space have been measured for the first time. Astronomers using a European Southern Observatory telescope have made precise measurements of Asteroid Itokawa's density.
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Strange Saturn Vortex Swirls in Amazing NASA PhotoAn amazing new photo of Saturn's north pole puts the planet's odd hexagon-shaped jet stream and dazzling rings on display.
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First-Ever Weather Map of Failed Star Reveals Patchy Alien Clouds -
Stephen Hawking's New Black Hole Theory: Scientists Remain Unconvinced -
Cosmic Lagoon Shines in Spectacular Views from Very Large Telescope (Video) -
Japan to Test Space Junk Cleanup Tether Soon: ReportJapanese scientists are getting ready to launch a test of a space junk-cleaning tether, according to press reports.
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Alien Planet Around Solar Twin Found in Distant Star Cluster, a First (Video)Scientists using a powerful telescope in Chile have found an alien planet circling a star that is nearly identical to the sun in a star cluster 2,500 light-years from Earth.
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Europe's Mars Probe Celebrates 10 Years of Amazing Martian Views (Video)Mars Express — the first European Space Agency spacecraft built to investigate another planet — has been snapping color and 3D images of Mars for 10 years.
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Hubble Telescope Captures Spectacular Views of Spidery Tarantula Nebula (Photos) -
Scale of Universe Measured with 1-Percent AccuracyAn ultraprecise new galaxy map is shedding light on the properties of dark energy, the mysterious force thought to be responsible for the universe's accelerating expansion.
