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Wednesday, May 16, 2012

  • Star trails picture: a winning image in the Third International Earth and Sky Photo Contest

    Year's Best Night-Sky Pictures

    Stunning Photos of Comets, Auroras, Milky Way, and More

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  • Corot 7b picture: part of a Halloween gallery of spooky space objects

    Hundreds of Superflares Spotted

    But the new data from a NASA spacecraft cast doubt on a popular theory for what triggers the planet-roasting bursts of energy.

  • Body jars picture: mountain burial in Cambodia

    "Body Jars," Cliff Coffins Revealed

    Perched on cliff ledges, centuries-old log coffins and "body jars" are the only known traces of an unknown Cambodian tribe.

  • Comet picture: a winning image in the Third International Earth and Sky Photo Contest

    Year's Best Night-Sky Pictures

    A holiday comet, Icelandic auroras, and the Milky Way feature among the winning shots from the International Earth and Sky Photo Contest.

  • An illustration of a newly discovered extinct species that was related to modern-day pandas.

    Prehistoric "Panda" Found in Spain

    A small fossil bear recently identified in Spain suggests China's giant panda has European roots, a new study says.

  • Supermoon picture: one of the week's best space pictures

    Space Pictures This Week

    A supermoon looms, a solar flare erupts, and night-shining clouds glow in this week's best space pictures.

  • An illustration of ''Quaoar,'' a Kuiper belt object.

    New Planet in Our Solar System?

    An unseen world might be disturbing the orbits of several objects in the outer solar system, new calculations hint.

  • A Tarahumara runner in an ultramarathon in Chihuahua, Mexico.

    Runner's High Hardwired

    The pleasurable sensation known as "runner's high" may have motivated human and canine ancestors to build endurance, a new study says.

  • A bow shock is seen in front of a distant star.

    Sun Is Slower Than Thought

    New NASA data hint that our star is moving too slow to form a bow shock, a structure long thought to protect us from cosmic rays.

  • Maya house picture: panoramic photograph of three painted men

    New Maya Mural Refutes 2012 Myth

    Unprecedented paintings and calculations have emerged from under the Guatemalan jungle—including evidence against the 2012 "doomsday myth."

  • Maya house art picture: A vegetation-covered Maya residence

    Pictures: Maya "Workshop" Found

    See the rare, newfound Maya artworks and calculations that show mysterious figures and contradict popularly held 2012 apocalypse theories.

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