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Venus, a Planetary Portrait of Inner Beauty

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Artist concept of lightning on Venus.

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NASA Preparing to Launch Its Newest X-ray Eyes

NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, is being prepared for the final journey to its launch pad on Kwajalein Atoll in the central Pacific Ocean. The mission will study everything from massive black holes to our own sun. It is...

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Venus transit to be witnessed by North and Central America on June 5

People in most of Hawaii, Alaska, Australia, the western Pacific, and eastern Asia will be able to see the planet Venus cross in front of the Sun, which will last 6 hours 40 minutes on 5th June.

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Now, perfume that smells like 'new car'

Ford Spain has launched a new perfume that smells like a new car.

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NASA Scientist Figures Way to Weigh Space Rock

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These series of radar images of asteroid 1999 RQ36 were obtained by NASA's Deep Space Network antenna in Goldstone,...

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Herschel Sees Intergalactic Bridge Aglow With Stars

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The Herschel Space Observatory has discovered a giant, galaxy-packed filament ablaze with billions of new stars. The...

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NASA Lends Galaxy Evolution Explorer to Caltech

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The Galaxy Next Door
At approximately 2.5 million light-years away, the Andromeda galaxy is our...

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NASA Survey Counts Potentially Hazardous Asteroids

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New results from NASA's NEOWISE survey find that more potentially hazardous asteroids, or PHAs, are closely aligned...

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