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Discovery Begins Journey Back To Earth |
| Discovery departed from her orbiting companion, the International Space Station, at 0324 EDT (0724 GMT) on Saturday [Aug. 6], wrapping up over nine busy days of docked time - New Scientist |
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NASA's Spitzer Finds Hidden, Hungry Black Holes |
| Most of the biggest black holes in the universe have been eating cosmic meals behind closed doors – until now
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A Solar Twin In Serpens? |
| A dim yellow star in the constellation Serpens may be nearly identical to the Sun, say astronomers in South Carolina and Hawaii. The star could, therefore, host a life-bearing
planet like Earth - Astronomy |
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Cassini Flies By Saturn's Tortured Moon Mimas |
| On its recent close flyby of Mimas, the Cassini spacecraft found the Saturnian moon looking battered and bruised, with a surface that may be the most heavily cratered in the Saturn system - NASA/JPL |
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Titan May Be As Dry As A Bone |
| Saturn's moon Titan is as dry as a bone over most of its surface, suggest new infrared images from Earth
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New Cassini Images Show "Northern Lights" Of Saturn |
| New images of Saturn obtained by a University of Colorado at Boulder-led team on June 21 using an instrument on the Cassini spacecraft show auroral emissions at its poles similar to Earth's Northern Lights - University of Colorado at Boulder |
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Moon Soils Store Earth's Early Breath |
| The Moon's soil preserves gases from the ancient Earth's atmosphere, say scientists who have studied results from the Apollo missions - Nature |
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Methane On Mars: The Plot Thickens |
| Methane on Mars may be produced at rates 3000 times higher than previously thought and partially destroyed by dust storms, controversial new research suggests - New Scientist |
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Mars Express Radar Collects First Surface Data |
| MARSIS, the sounding radar on board ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft, is collecting the first data about the surface and the ionosphere of Mars - ESA |
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NASA Spacecraft Completes Successful Earth Swingby |
| NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft, headed toward the first study of Mercury from orbit, swung by Earth today [Aug. 2] for a gravity assist that propelled it deeper into the inner solar system
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