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Kepler mission may be over

Multiple failures cripple planet-hunting telescope

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Gone perhaps, but Kepler won't soon be forgotten

Astronomers look forward to building on planet-hunting telescope's discoveries

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FOR KIDS: Black hole mysteries

Scientists are just getting to know the black holes that help anchor our cosmos

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News in Brief: Cradled galaxies betray violent past

Hubble snaps ‘the Penguin’ and its egg-shaped companion

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Milky Way's black hole pulling in gas cloud

The destruction is only beginning

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Randomness: Belief in multiverse requires exceptional vision

If you can’t see it, it doesn’t exist. That’s an old philosophy, one that many scientists swallowed whole. But as Ziva David of NCIS would say, it’s total salami. After all, you can’t see ba...

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News in Brief: Pictures of young star show unusual outbursts

Ejections from stellar newborn move faster, differently than astronomers thought

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To determine stars' physical traits, Kepler sees the light

Brightness measurements can help gauge size, stage of evolution

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Radio telescope images reveal nebula's heart of carbon

ALMA takes detailed look at elements surrounding dying star

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At last, Voyager 1 slips into interstellar space

Solar blast data provides definitive evidence that spacecraft has cruised beyond the sun’s clutch

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News in Brief: Eclipsing the sun, from Mars

NASA rover catches silhouette of Martian moon

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