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More than one way to explode a star

New observations confirm two leading theories of type 1a supernova production

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Sun’s shock wave goes missing

Spacecraft observations redraw astronomers’ ideas about the local stellar environment

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Stellar superflares' trigger challenged

A 'hot Jupiter' may not be needed for huge eruptions on sunlike stars

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An interview with alien hunter Jill Tarter

Director of Center for SETI Research retires to focus on finding funds to continue the hunt for extraterrestrial life

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Deleted Scenes: Alien hunter redirects her search to Earth-based funding

SETI scientist Jill Tarter retires from research to focus on raising funds to continue search for extraterrestrial life

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Milky Way will be hit head-on

Andromeda galaxy will smash directly into ours

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Crowd sourcing comes to astronomy

Online snaps of comet used to determine its orbit

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Curiosity to look for habitable environs

Mars mission will probe Red Planet’s past, present

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On the Scene: BLOG: Mission control before the party

Days before Curiosity's planned Martian landing, Nadia Drake checks out JPL's space central

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On the Scene: A lifetime of curiosity: An interview with JPL director Charles...

Nadia Drake speaks with the lab head days before the Mars Science Laboratory’s scheduled landing

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Wheels down, Mars rover takes in the view

Curiosity lands safely, begins transmitting images

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Giant cluster phenomenally fertile

Stars form fast thanks to snoozing black hole

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On the Scene: Weird pulsars debut at Beijing astronomy meeting

Newfound oddities challenge researchers’ imaginations

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Black hole’s annual feast begins

Astronomers offer explanations for source of light around object with an unusual yearly behavior

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Exoplanet pair orbits two stars

Outer orb sits in habitable zone of binary star system

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News in Brief: Highlights from the IAU Meeting

A collection of reports from the 28th General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union, Beijing

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Another potentially habitable world emerges

Planet orbits a common dwarf star, suggesting more may be out there

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Voyager chasing solar system's edge

On 35th anniversary of spacecraft’s launch, scientists ponder when it will move beyond the sun’s reach

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Team glimpses black hole’s secrets

Observations in M87 suggest promise of budding telescope network

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Curiosity goes to the flow

Mars rover appears to have landed in a dry streambed

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