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TONIGHT: Watch Moon, Mars Do Celestial Dance

Posted 05.28.2012

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By: Joe Rao Published: 05/27/2012 07:13 AM EDT on SPACE.com Monday evening will bring us a first quarter moon, offering U.S. skywatchers a chance ...

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NASA Probe Has Close Encounter With Saturn's Icy Moons

Posted 05.05.2012

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By: SPACE.com Staff Published: 05/04/2012 03:12 PM EDT on SPACE.com NASA's Cassini spacecraft zoomed by two Saturn moons this week to take what ...

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TONIGHT: Saturn, Moon And Star Powwow In Night Sky

Posted 05.03.2012

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By: Geoff Gaherty Published: 05/02/2012 04:11 PM EDT on SPACE.com Look toward the southeast on Thursday night (May 3) about an hour after sunset...

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PHOTO: Saturn And Its Moons In Glorious Hi-Def

Posted 05.04.2012

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The international Cassini spacecraft mission is a match made in heaven: it pairs advanced imaging technology with Saturn, arguably our most photogenic...

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LOOK: Coolest Images From Hubble Telescope After 22 Years In Space

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.01.2012

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The Hubble Space Telescope launched on April 24, 1990, ushering in a new era in space exploration. From its low-earth orbit, the telescope can take...

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THIS WEEKEND: Best Time To See Saturn

Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Planetary Science, Stars, Planets, Video, Saturn, Astronomy, Saturn in Opposition, Solar System, Moon, Saturn's Moons, Telescope, Stargazing, Science News

By: Geoff Gaherty Published: 04/11/2012 05:04 PM EDT on SPACE.com When amateur astronomers reflect on the most memorable sights of their lifetim...

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PHOTOS: Saturn's Moons Icily Bleak In Close-Ups From Cassini

Posted 03.30.2012

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By: Clara Moskowitz Published: 03/30/2012 06:45 AM EDT on SPACE.com NASA's workhorse Saturn orbiter Cassini has just beamed back stunning new v...

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Saturn's Icy Moon Rhea Seen In Breathtaking Close-Ups, Courtesy NASA Spacecraft

AP | Posted 03.13.2012

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PASADENA, Calif. -- The pockmarked surface of Saturn's second-largest moon has come into sharper focus in new images released by NASA. The space agen...

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Saturn Moon Found To Have Oxygen Atmosphere

Posted 03.05.2012

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By: SPACE.com Staff Published: 03/05/2012 07:15 AM EST on SPACE.com This story was updated at 10 p.m. ET. A NASA spacecraft circling Saturn has...

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TALK NERDY TO ME: Our Favorite Astrophysicist Geeks Out

HuffingtonPost.com | Cara Santa Maria | Posted 04.28.2012

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PHOTOS: Saturn Does Cosmic Dance With Its Moons

Posted 02.09.2012

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Is Saturn our most photogenic planet? Have a look at this magnificent shot featuring Saturn's famous rings and Enceladus, one of the planet's 62 moons...

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Saturn on Steroids: Ringed Alien World Glimpsed Outside Solar System

| Charles Q. Choi | Posted 01.13.2012

Read More: Exoplanet, Video, Astrophysics, Astronomy, Saturn, Ringed Planet, Solar System, Planet, Scorpius-Centaurus, Science News

AUSTIN, Texas – An enigmatic object detected five years ago in space may be a ringed alien world comparable to Saturn, the first such world discove...

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Flying Titan's Skies

Huffington Post | Chris C. Anderson | Posted 01.05.2012

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AVIATR (Aerial Vehicle for In-situ and Airborne Titan Reconnaissance) is a proposed exploration mission that could fly the skies of Saturn's moon Tita...

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A Moon With Its Own Moon?

| Posted 12.17.2011

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By John Matson (Click here for original article.) Could a planet have a moon that itself had a smaller moon? A former subsatellite would help e...

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This Image Of Saturn Is REAL

The Huffington Post | Dean Praetorius | Posted 11.09.2011

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This is a photo of Saturn, not an artist's futuristic sci-fi rendition. NASA's Cassini spacecraft, which continues to orbit Saturn, captured this p...

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PHOTOS: Massive Storm Moves Across Saturn, Eight Times The Size Of Earth

The Huffington Post | Dean Praetorius | Posted 09.07.2011

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This storm on Saturn is bigger than you can possibly imagine. According to NASA, it's actually eight times the surface area of Earth. It is the big...

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How to Catch a Comet

SETI Institute | Posted 05.31.2011

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Few comets are ever featured on the front page of the New York Times, but Shoemaker-Levy 9 was when it collided with Jupiter in 1994. It went out with a bang -- end of story. Or so we thought.

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Life at the SETI Institute: Ignacio Mosqueira -- Worlds in the Making

SETI Institute | Posted 05.25.2011

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By Gail Jacobs Dr. Ignacio Mosqueira is an astrophysicist at the Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe, SETI Institute. He works wi...

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Life at the SETI Institute: Paul Estrada -- From Dust to Planets

SETI Institute | Posted 05.25.2011

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By Gail Jacobs If planets are a dime a dozen, moons are less than a penny each. There are at least 139 moons just within our own solar system. Most o...

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PHOTOS: The Brand Graveyard - 17 Household Names That Fell Victim To The Recession

Posted 05.25.2011

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Here lies a leading big box electronics retailer, an iconic photography mainstay and a host of once ubiquitous consumer brands. In the interest o...

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Driving Mitsubishi's i-MiEV electric; Fun in an EV?

Steve Parker | Posted 05.25.2011

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"It's not easy bein' green..." Car companies worldwide should have paid heed to those simple words many years ago.

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The Top 10 Cars Most Likely To Be Stolen

HuffPost/AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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AP -- The blinged-out Cadillac Escalade SUV, a favorite of A-listers like Tiger Woods, is once again the vehicle voted most likely to be stolen, accor...

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Life at the SETI Institute: From Galileo to Cassini -- 400 Years of Saturn's Rings

SETI Institute | Posted 05.25.2011

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This week, it will be easy to repeat Galileo's famous experiment. Shortly after sunset, look toward the west and you will see three planets in a line. If you are very lucky, you might make out Saturn's rings.

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Blizzard On Saturn Is So Massive It's Visible From Earth

Posted 05.25.2011

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Thanks to NASA's Cassini spacecraft, which is currently orbiting Saturn, scientists have a front row seat to the massive blizzard raging on the plane...

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Dear Lindsay, Please Don't Join the 27 Club

Virginia Bell | Posted 11.17.2011

The 27 Club (also known as the Forever Club) is reserved for those people (specifically famous rock musicians) who died around the age of 27 often under mysterious circumstances.

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