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• NASA's Kepler Detects Potential Evaporating Planet
  

  
  
  A planet with a tail? NASA's Kepler mission has found evidence for what may be a disintegrating planet.

  
  
  
  
  
• Cassini Spots Tiny Moon, Begins to Tilt Orbit
  

  
  
  NASA's Cassini spacecraft beams back closest images of Methone as it approaches Saturn's largest moon, Titan.

  
  
  
  
  
• Herschel Sees Intergalactic Bridge Aglow With Stars
  

  
  
  The Herschel Space Observatory has discovered a giant, galaxy-packed filament ablaze with billions of new stars.

  
  
  
  
  
• NASA Lends Galaxy Evolution Explorer to Caltech
  

  
  
  NASA is lending the Galaxy Evolution Explorer to the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, where the spacecraft will continue its exploration of the cosmos.

  
  
  
  
  
• NASA Survey Counts Potentially Hazardous Asteroids
  

  
  
  Observations from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have led to the best assessment yet of our solar system's population of potentially hazardous asteroids.