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A Busy Year Begins for New Horizons
With Pluto encounter operations now just a year away, the New Horizons team has brought the spacecraft out of hibernation for the first of several activities planned for 2014.
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Recently Reactivated NASA Spacecraft Spots Its First New Asteroid
NASA's Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) spacecraft has spotted a never-before-seen asteroid - its first such discovery since coming out of hibernation last year.
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New kind of planet or failed star? Astrophysicists discover category-defying celestial object
An object discovered by astrophysicists at the University of Toronto nearly 500 light years away from the sun may challenge traditional understandings about how planets and stars form.
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NASA's Kepler Provides Insights on Enigmatic Planets
More than three-quarters of the planet candidates discovered by NASA's Kepler spacecraft have sizes ranging from that of Earth to that of Neptune, which is nearly four times as big as Earth. Such pl ... more
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