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More evidence piles up that the moon harbors lots of ice

Chandrayaan 1, the first moon mission launched by the Indian Space Research Organization, did not last long— in August 2009, controllers lost contact with the probe 10 months into its two-year mission .
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Mars's Environment Shown to Be Hostile, but Not Untenable for Earthly Microbes
A test of bacterial survivability points to possible avenues for microbial survival on Mars, assuming life--and specifically Earth-like life--ever developed there
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Wild Ride: Comet Sample May Help Constrain the Early Evolution of the Solar System
A particle from Comet Wild 2, returned to Earth by the Stardust spacecraft, appears to have led a long and migratory life
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Space shuttle Endeavour glides to Earth, several tons lighter
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The Moon That Would Be a Planet
Titan, Saturn's largest natural satellite, scarcely deserves to be a called a mere moon. It has an atmosphere thicker than Earths and a surface that is almost as varied

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More evidence piles up that the moon harbors lots of ice

Mars's Environment Shown to Be Hostile, but Not Untenable for Earthly Microbes

Space shuttle Endeavour glides to Earth, several tons lighter

Space shuttle astronauts install two large space station components

Wild Ride: Comet Sample May Help Constrain the Early Evolution of the Solar System

Looking for Life in the Multiverse

Stimulating Science: Following the Recovery Money

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory launches successfully

Phased Out: Obama's NASA Budget Would Cancel Constellation Moon Program, Privatize Manned Launches

Scientific American Magazine

March 2010 Issue

Breaking the Climate Debate Logjam

Climate Change: A Controlled Experiment

Readers Respond on "A Path to Sustainable Energy by 2030"

End-of-Days Danger

Invasion of the Drones: Unmanned Aircraft Take Off in Polar Exploration

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