Messenger reveals Mercury's hidden side
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Nice snap of newly-revealed hemisphere NASA's Messenger has beamed back the first picture of Mercury's hitherto unseen side, snapped from a distance of about 17,000 miles after its first fly-by of the planet yesterday.â¦
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A University of Colorado study has embarked on demonstrating that new planets can be found with the help of an orbiting starshade. The method has been compared to building a giant pinhole camera in space.
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Data sent back by the Huygens space probe from the Saturnian moon Titan show a frozen, orange world shrouded in a methane-rich haze with dark ice rocks dotting a riverbed-like surface the consistency of wet sand, scientists said on Saturday.
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NASA&#39;s Cassini orbiter began transmitting data and images from Saturn&#39;s moon Titan on Tuesday, providing the closest look at the mysterious moon that humans have ever seen.
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The Messenger spacecraft dashed past Mercury on Monday, getting a glance at the solar systemâs innermost planet, which it will eventually orbit for detailed studies.
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Blog: Problems with technology could be random. Or, they could be because of Mercury in Retrograde
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NASA's Messenger spacecraft has beamed back some surprising new data from the planet Mercury. Highlights include a weird crater nicknamed &quot;the Spider,&quot; a planetary tail of hydrogen atoms, and measurements that show giant Caloris basin is even bigger than researchers thought.
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A new spectrometer lets scientists learn more about the planet's chemistry.
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The surface of one of the brightest stars in the night sky is imaged by scientists.
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Right around noon today, if all goes as planned, a spacecraft called Messenger will swoop past the planet Mercury and begin two days of unprecedented picture-taking and data-collecting.
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The European Space Agency prepares to send its Huygens probe hurtling through the smoggy atmosphere of Saturn's moon, Titan. What the probe will find on the other side is anybody's guess. By Amit Asaravala.
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Description: We take a trip out to Saturn&#39;s moon Titan. The Cassini space probe paid a close call to the moon this week, and sent back some pictures of the mist-covered planet that have scientists puzzled.
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Astronomers find water in the atmosphere of a giant planet outside our Solar System.
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Astronomers have found the first signature of complex organic molecules in the dust cloud around a distant star, suggesting that these building blocks of life may be a common feature of planetary systems.
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Beams back images of first approach NASA's Messenger yesterday successfully completed its first fly-by of Mercury, passing roughly 124 miles (200km) above the surface of the planet.â¦
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Saturn&#39;s mysterious moon Titan held onto its secrets despite a close reconnaissance by the Cassini spacecraft&#39;s cameras and instruments.
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MAUNA KEA, Hawaii -- The sharpest image ever taken of a dust disk around another star has revealed structures in the disk which are signs of unseen planets.     Dr...