Planet-hunting space probe notches up four finds in first year
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Corot, a French-funded probe designed to detect worlds orbiting other stars, has found four such candidates in its first year of operation, its mission chiefs said here on Thursday.
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The US space agency NASA on Thursday launched the space probe Dawn on an eight-year mission to unlock the secrets of the solar system and how it was born.
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In the six months the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft has been orbiting Saturn, it has beamed to Earth images of startling beauty and detail, giving astronomers enough research for decades.
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Honolulu, HawaiiÂ -- The world's largest and most prolific team of planet hunters announced Monday the discovery of 28 new planets outside our solar system, increasing to 236 the total number of known exoplanets.University of California, Berkeley, post-doctoral fellow Jason T.
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NASA&#39;s Spirit and Opportunity have been exploring Mars about three times as long as originally scheduled. The more they look, the more evidence of past liquid water on Mars these robots discover.
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Scientists are delighted with the first results from the Aura satellite, launched in July to check the health of the Earth's atmosphere.
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Among a batch of new planets, found by the Hubble telescope on a small patch of sky in Sagittarius, are as many as five that orbit their home stars in less than a day.
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NASA's MESSENGER probe returns the first images ever seen of the surface of Mercury from just 124 miles away.
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NASA's infrared eyes are probing the beginnings of both stars and planets.  In two separate observations, the Spitzer Space Telescope has uncovered the warm glow from a possible stellar infant and an icy disk where planets may one-day form.
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After circling the red planet for more than eight months, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has taken images of three spacecraft that the agency had previously sent to the Martian surface.
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NASA&#39;s Mars Odyssey orbiter begins working overtime today after completing a prime mission that discovered vast supplies of frozen water, ran a safety check for future astronauts, and mapped surface textures and minerals all over Mars, among other feats.
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Telescopes aboard the Hinode satellite have been returning some of their first results.
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A car-sized NASA probe zoomed about  126 miles above the rocky, crater-scarred surface of Mercury on  Monday, becoming the first spacecraft since 1975 to fly past  the closest planet to the sun.
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The hunt for extraterrestrial life has a new tool: a system of "fingerprints" scientists will use to compare alien worlds with Earth as it has appeared over the eons.
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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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NASA said Tuesday it is recycling two used spacecraft to lead new robotic missions to study comets and planets around other stars. The encore performances of the Deep Impact and Stardust probes allow the space agency to further its solar system exploration for a fraction of the cost it would take to start a mission from scratch.
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Washington, DC- Using a network of small automated telescopes known as HAT, Smithsonian astronomers have discovered a planet unlike any other known world.