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Three new residents arrive at International Space Station
The Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft docked at the space station's rooftop Poisk module after a two-day orbital chase. 10/25/2012 09:33 am
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Gigantic invisible cocoons of dark matter may suck up rogue stars
These findings suggest the halos of dark matter surrounding galaxies are not completely dark after all, but contain a small number of stars, investigators added. 10/24/2012 02:56 pm
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Humongous Milky Way photo captures 84 million stars
The staggering 9-gigapixel picture was created with data gathered by the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA), an instrument at the European Southern Observatory's Paranal Observatory in northern Chile. 10/24/2012 01:51 pm
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On the sun: Massive solar flare unleashed (+video)
An X-class flare erupted on the sun on Monday, according to scientists. These flares, sometimes interfering with radio signals here on Earth, are likely to continue as the sun approaches the peak of its magnetic activity in 2013. 10/23/2012 10:43 pm
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Toy hippo, fish join new astronauts in flight to space station
A Soyuz spacecraft blasted off from Kazakhstan Tuesday morning with an American and two Russians also on board. 10/23/2012 09:44 am
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Research reveals Beluga whale that could mimic human voices (+audio)
It may sound like a whale of a tale, but it's true. Beginning in 1984, scientists in San Diego studied the sounds of a captive male Beluga whale that was able to mimic human voices. 10/22/2012 08:16 pm
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Lorca 5.1 earthquake: Blame Spain's farmers and their deep wells?
Spain's worst earthquake in 50 years may have been triggered by farmers drilling deep wells to water their crops, says a new study. With the rise in 'fracking,' man-made earthquakes are a focus of seismic study. 10/22/2012 09:04 am
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‘Beetlejuice’ sparks? Meteor shower brings 'shooting stars' and 'earthgrazers'
The increasing intensity of the annual Orionid meteor shower will be on full display Saturday night and Sunday morning as most of the US faces a cold, clear, moonless night – the perfect celestial screen. 10/20/2012 12:48 pm
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Orionid meteor shower: Watch for fireballs during weekend peak
One of the more spectacular meteor showers of the year peaks overnight Saturday, with perhaps 60 visible meteors an hour. Fireballs – any meteor brighter than Venus – are likely as Orionids plunge into the atmosphere at 148,000 miles per hour. 10/19/2012 02:58 pm
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Mars rover begins munching dirt, finds weird bright stuff (+video)
The soil has been successfully delivered to the rover's Chemistry and Mineralogy instrument, or CheMin, mission scientists announced Oct. 18. 10/19/2012 09:28 am
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Extreme global warming caused devastating die-off
As much as 95 percent of the Earth's species disappeared 250 million years ago as a result of dramatic temperature changes likely influenced by fierce volcanic eruptions. 10/18/2012 10:54 pm
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For Mars rover Curiosity, at last, it's dinnertime. On the menu: dirt.
It's period of painstaking preparations over, the Mars rover Curiosity has at long last ingested a sample of soil for analysis by its on-board chemistry lab. That's what it came 352 million miles for. 10/18/2012 07:33 pm
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Moon formed from humongous Earth collision, new theories attempt to explain
The new research potentially plugs a big hole in the giant impact theory, long the leading explanation for the moon's formation. 10/18/2012 01:01 pm
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Dolphins able to sleep with half their brains, stay awake for two weeks straight
New findings suggest how dolphins can keep on the constant lookout for sharks, investigators added. 10/18/2012 12:46 pm
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Space shuttle Endeavour's L.A. journey subject of beautiful time-lapse video
The amazing time-lapse view of Endeavour's L.A. street journey, which ran from Friday to late Sunday, was created by a team of photographers organized by Matthew Givot 10/18/2012 11:38 am
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Earth-size Alpha Centauri B planet detected by telltale star wobble
HARPS, as the instrument is called, successfully detected a rocky planet around one of Earth’s closest neighboring stars when other tools missed it. 10/18/2012 10:53 am
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Tiny ancient critter hitched rides on insect wings
This discovery, based on fossils trapped in amber, suggest the descendants of these microscopic beasts might still hitchhike flights today to spread around the globe, scientists added. 10/18/2012 09:47 am
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Earth-size planet found just next door, in Alpha Centauri system
The planet is not habitable, it is too close to Alpha Centauri B. But rocky planets tend to have siblings, researchers note, raising hopes others could be found in the system just 4.4 light-years distant. 10/17/2012 06:10 pm
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Scientists confident moon born of colossal Earth collision that vaporized Zinc
Researchers examined rocks collected by astronauts during NASA's Apollo lunar landing missions, as well as a meteorite that originated on the moon to make the find. 10/17/2012 02:41 pm
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Humongous, 60-million-light-year-long strand of dark matter mapped in 3-D
Since dark matter cannot be seen directly, these filaments are difficult to observe. 10/17/2012 12:52 pm
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