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Astronomy and Science News
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A virus designed to swipe passwords from online gamers has inexplicably popped up in some laptop computers aboard the international space station.
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Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: The Rocket Racing League's bigger, more powerful prototype plane gets its first flight tests.
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The discovery of the largest cluster of galaxies ever seen in the distant universe confirms the existence of dark energy.
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Glaciation and subsequent snow and ice melt likely carved out Martian gullies.
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A new corps of scientists and technologies are vital for future moon research.
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Phoenix lander begins extended mission as it digs deeper trench.
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NASA's recently launched GLAST space telescope is up and running, and going by a new name.
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TV's 'Mythbusters' tackle the hoax claims linked to Apollo moon landings.
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The Mars rover Opportunity begins its ascent out of Victoria crater.
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TV's 'Battlestar Galactica' is proof that the ratings system is dead.
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Senators urge president to preserve option to fly shuttle past 2010.
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The NSF is looking to tiny satellites for big science in space.
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Astronomers may have discovered the smallest possible size for a galaxy, hinting at the nature of dark matter.
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A computer virus has been found in space station laptops.
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A violent merger between galaxy clusters has split dark matter from ordinary matter
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A stuck metal pin prompted delay for shuttle Atlantis' launch pad move.
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The lander digs deeper as its third month on Mars comes to an end.
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A team of astronomers is assembling the most massive galaxies in the universe.
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A thin layer of water frost is visible on the ground around NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander in this image taken by the Surface Stereo Imager at 6 a.m. on Sol...
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NASA's Opportunity rover is slowly but surely hauling itself out of a vast Martian crater after nearly a year plumbing the interior for secrets of the Red Planet's ancient past.
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Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: Does anyone still believe that Mars will look as big as the full moon this week? If so, this one's for you.
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NASA's new gamma-ray telescope is up and running in orbit, and going by a brand new name: the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.
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For its next trick, NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander will dig a trench in the Martian surface three times deeper than any it has dug so far, as it completes its original three month-mission and embarks upon its extended mission.
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One of the host of challenges facing NASA as the agency plans to rekindle robotic and human exploration of the moon is the development of a corps of investigators and technologies suitable for long-term missions akin to the research stations that dot Antarctica.
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The orbiting observatory has found the most massive cluster of galaxies.
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