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How Upcoming 'Transit' May Help Hunt Search For Alien Worlds

Posted 06.01.2012

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By: Clara Moskowitz Published: 06/01/2012 06:38 AM EDT on SPACE.com A rare opportunity to see the planet Venus cross in front of the face of the ...

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Space Scientists Gear Up For Rare Celestial Event

Posted 05.30.2012

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By: Clara Moskowitz Published: 05/29/2012 02:03 PM EDT on SPACE.com Scientists are gearing up for the upcoming transit of Venus, an extremely ra...

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Why Some Women Risk Cancer To Be Tan

Slate | Posted 05.23.2012

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A CDC report out this month found that nearly one in three white women aged 18 to 25 had used a tanning booth in the previous year. White women aged 1...

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14 Fascinating Facts About Solar Eclipses

Posted 05.18.2012

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How savvy are you about solar eclipses? You already know that eclipses like the one that will be visible in the U.S. on Sunday occur when the moon...

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ECLIPSE HOW-TO: When, Where, How To View 'Ring Of Fire'

Posted 05.20.2012

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If you catch a glimpse of this fiery phenomenon, be sure to tweet us your photos at @HuffPostScience, hashtag #solareclipse, or you can email us at sc...

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NEXT MONTH: Rare Celestial Event May Kickstart Search For Alien Planets

Posted 05.16.2012

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By: Mike Wall Published: 05/16/2012 01:04 PM EDT on SPACE.com Observations of next month's historic Venus transit may eventually help astronomer...

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Rare Celestial Event Has Skywatchers Heading North

Posted 05.15.2012

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By: Mike Wall Published: 05/15/2012 07:42 AM EDT on SPACE.com A NASA sun-watching spacecraft will have an unbeatable view of June's historic Ven...

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Giant Sunspot Fires Off Spectacular Solar Flare

Posted 05.11.2012

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By: Tariq Malik Published: 05/11/2012 11:35 AM EDT on SPACE.com A huge sunspot that dwarfs the Earth is unleashing a series of powerful solar fl...

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'Shocking' Study Challenges Long-Held Belief About Sun

Posted 05.11.2012

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By: Charles Q. Choi Published: 05/10/2012 02:36 PM EDT on SPACE.com The sun is zipping through interstellar space more slowly than once thought,...

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Rare Planetary Event To Be Viewed With Collossal 'Mirror'

Posted 05.08.2012

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By: SPACE.com Staff Published: 05/07/2012 05:40 PM EDT on SPACE.com Scientists are planning to use NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to observe next...

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Sun-Like Star May Break Astronomical Record

Posted 04.27.2012

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By: Denise Chow Published: 04/26/2012 05:29 PM EDT on SPACE.com A star already known to host five alien planets may actually be home to a whopping...

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TONIGHT: Skywatchers' Last Chance To See Jupiter For Long Time

Posted 04.22.2012

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By: Joe Rao Published: 04/20/2012 06:22 PM EDT on SPACE.com Jupiter will end its brilliant year-long show on Sunday evening (April 22) by making...

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Cosmic Mystery Deepens As 'Dark Matter' Study Yields Big Surprise

Posted 04.19.2012

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By: Charles Q. Choi Published: 04/19/2012 10:00 AM EDT on SPACE.com A new study has found no trace of the mysterious substance known as dark matte...

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Sun Journalist Arrested In Police Bribery Probe

AP | CASSANDRA VINOGRAD | Posted 04.20.2012

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LONDON — Britain's media ethics inquiry said Thursday it will hear testimony from News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch and his son James next week...

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Earth Woefully Unprepared For Massive Solar Storms, Scientists Warn

Posted 04.19.2012

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By: Mike Wall Published: 04/18/2012 01:07 PM EDT on SPACE.com Humanity needs to be much better prepared for massive solar storms, which can wrea...

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WATCH: Huge Solar Flare Triggers Explosion Of Plasma

Posted 04.17.2012

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By: Tariq Malik Published: 04/16/2012 05:08 PM EDT on SPACE.com The sun erupted in an amazing solar flare today (April 16), unleashing an intense ...

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How To See Mercury In Morning Sky This Month

Posted 04.05.2012

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By: Geoff Gaherty Published: 04/04/2012 04:06 PM EDT on SPACE.com This month the evening skies are ablaze with planets: Venus, Mars, and Saturn ...

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NASA Mission To The Sun Due To Launch In 2018

The Los Angeles Times | Amina Khan | Posted 03.12.2012

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The chest-high rack of electronics Justin Kasper is assembling in a Massachusetts office park will fit in a shoe box before he's done. It won't be ...

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TONIGHT: Solar Storm May Bring Awesome Aurora

Posted 03.08.2012

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By: Denise Chow Published: 03/07/2012 06:16 PM EST on SPACE.com A massive solar storm may spark an intense northern lights display for skywatche...

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WATCH: Sun Delivers Solar Flare One-Two Punch

Posted 03.08.2012

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By: Tariq Malik Published: 03/07/2012 07:31 AM EST on SPACE.com The sun unleashed a cosmic double whammy Tuesday (March 6), erupting with two ma...

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Huge Solar Flare May Mean Sun Is 'Waking Up'

Posted 03.06.2012

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By: Denise Chow Published: 03/06/2012 07:28 AM EST on SPACE.com An active region on the sun that unleashed a powerful solar flare Sunday (March ...

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Tonight's Mars 'Show' To Be Year's Best, Astronomers Say

Posted 03.03.2012

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By: Mike Wall Published: 03/02/2012 09:52 AM EST on SPACE.com UPDATE: See our latest skywatching tips to see Mars at opposition here: Mars Visi...

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Solar Storm Study Spotlights Risk Of Catastrophe

Posted 03.01.2012

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An aurora borealis may be beautiful, but can there be too much of a good thing? A new study published in the journal Space Weather analyzed the freque...

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Leap Year Lesson: What Is a Year, Anyway?

Donna Henes | Posted 04.28.2012

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Creating an accurate and practical calendar is an astonishingly complicated challenge, which has plagued our calendrical tendencies since people first attempted to create some logical and consistent order for themselves from a universe that can be so chaotic and confusing in its complexity.

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Vast Solar 'Tornadoes' Spied In Dazzling NASA Video

Posted 02.19.2012

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By: Tariq Malik Published: 02/17/2012 06:12 PM EST on SPACE.com A NASA spacecraft has captured an amazing video of solar twisters blowing across...

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