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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A NASA spacecraft named Lucy rocketed into the sky with diamonds Saturday morning on a 12-year quest to explore eight asteroids.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Attention asteroid aficionados: NASA is set to launch a series of spacecraft to visit and even bash some of the solar system’s most enticing space

NASA is on an asteroid roll as it gets set to launch a series of spacecraft to visit and even bash some of the solar system's most enticing rocks

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The final frontier has rarely seemed closer than this — at least virtually.

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The final frontier has rarely seemed closer than this — at least virtually.

Hadrien Gurnel, software engineer EPFLs Laboratory for Experimental Museology (eM+) explores with a virtual reality helmet the most detailed 3D map of the universe with the virtual reality software VIRUP,

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The final frontier has rarely seemed closer than this — at least virtually.

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The final frontier has rarely seemed closer than this — at least virtually.

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The final frontier has rarely seemed closer than this — at least virtually.

 E-Mail Credit: Gabriel Pérez Díaz, SMM (IAC). In recent years there has been an exhaustive study of red dwarf stars to find exoplanets in orbit around them. These stars have effective surface temperatures between 2400 and 3700 K (over 2000 degrees cooler than the Sun), and masses between 0.08 and 0.45 solar masses. In this context, a team of researchers led by Borja Toledo Padrón, a Severo Ochoa-La Caixa doctoral student at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), specializing in t...