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Opportunity Discovers Clays Favorable to Martian Biology and Sets Sail for Motherlode of New Clues

May 25, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Now nearly a decade into her planned 3 month only expedition to Mars, NASA’s longest living rover Opportunity, struck gold and has just discovered the strongest evidence to date for an environment favorable to ancient Martian biology – and she has [...]

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With Russian Meteor Fresh In Everyone’s Memory, ESA Opens An Asteroid Monitoring Center

May 23, 2013

It’s been about three months since that infamous meteor broke up over Chelyabinsk, Russia. In that time, there’s been a lot of conversation about how we can better protect ourselves against these space rocks with a potentially fatal (from humanity’s perspective) gravitational attraction to Earth. This week, the European Space Agency officially inaugurated a “NEO Coordination [...]

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A Mega-Merger of Massive Galaxies Caught in the Act

May 22, 2013

Even though the spacecraft has exhausted its supply of liquid helium coolant necessary to observe the infrared energy of the distant Universe, data collected by ESA’s Herschel space observatory are still helping unravel cosmic mysteries — such as how early elliptical galaxies grew so large so quickly, filling up with stars and then, rather suddenly, [...]

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Curiosity Drills 2nd Hole into Ancient Mars Rocks Searching for the Ingredients of Life

May 21, 2013

NASA’s Curiosity rover has just successfully bored inside ancient rocks on Mars for only the 2nd time since her nail biting landing in August 2012 inside Gale Crater as she searches for the ingredients of life. On Sunday, May 20, the rover drilled about 2.6 inches (6.6 centimeters) deep into a target named “Cumberland” to [...]

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Gerbils, mice perish as Russian spacecraft returns to Earth

May 20, 2013

A menagarie of animals launched to space last month has arrived back on Earth — with a few casualties for the voyage. Remove this ad

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