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A network of two-tone mineral veins

Curiosity Rover Spots 'Ice Cream Sandwich' Mineral Rocks on Mars

Curiosity analyzed numerous rock samples from three different locations found in the lower regions of Mount Sharp.

Working on the LHC

LHC Will Start in a Few Days as Glitch is Fixed

CERN scientists have conducted new tests on the circuits located in the area where the problem appeared.

Blood Moon

Total Lunar Eclipse on Saturday: the Shortest Ever in 100 Years

This total lunar eclipse on Saturday is the third of four eclipses predicted to occur in six months' time.

Black holes having lunch

Colliding Black Holes Reveal Secrets of Gravitational Waves

When two orbiting but rotating black holes collide, they merge into a powerful, massive single body.

Galaxy clusters

Astronomers Find Baby Galaxy Clusters that Reveals Dark Matter at Work

Experts believe it took millions of years for stars and galaxies to acquire the energy to assemble into giant clusters.

Forgetful Opportunity

Amnesia on Mars: NASA Opportunity Rover's Memory is Failing Yet Again

NASA engineers have announced the Opportunity rover is again suffering from memory lapses after a software upgrade.

Tampon test

Glow in the Dark Tampons: More Effective in Tracking Sewage Pollution

A new study reveals a unique yet effective mehod in tracking down water contamination that causes sewage and waterways pollution in the UK.

Rhea's two faces

Cassini Reveals First Hyper Color Images of Saturn's Mysterious Moon Rhea

NASA/ESA's Cassini probe has captured its first ever, colored composite images of Rhea during a close flyby.

The NASA flying saucer

It's Real: NASA Tests New 'Flying Saucer' for Mars

The flying saucer-shaped vehicle measures 15 feet across and weighs 7,000 pounds.

Black Mercury

Mercury's Dark Surface: It's an 'Invisible Paint' of Comet Dust

Mercury's low reflectance can be attributed to some mysterious darkening agent.

Dead meat

[PHOTO] Why Did This Fur Seal Attack and Devour Five Blue Sharks?

A Cape fur seal was photographed killing and eating blue sharks off the coast of Cape Town in South Africa .

Surface burn marks

Mars Curiosity Rover's Landing Zone Scars have Mysteriously Darkened

NASA scientists are trying to figure out why Curiosity rover's landing blast zones darkened instead of fading away.

Three of Expedition 43's crew

Astronauts Begin One Year Mission in Space; NASA Studies Twins in Space and Earth

Kelly and Kornienko, however, will remain there for an entire year and will return to Earth via a Soyuz TMA-18M in March 2016.

Antarctica's ice shelves

Antarctica's Ice Shelves Thinning Faster at Alarming Rate

The thinning ice shelves rate in West Antarctica can result in ice shelves losing more than half of their volume in the next 200 years.

Galaxy clusters

Colliding Galaxies Reveal Secret Properties of Dark Matter

This leads to the idea that dark matter doesn't totally interact with visible particles surrounding it, which was the previous theory.

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