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June 14, 2013, by James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief

Almost two decades ago, the big guns fell silent in the war between Armenians and Azeris over a mountainous corner of Azerbaijan called Nagorno-Karabakh. Today, the 1994 ceasefire trench lines …

Nasa Mars Reconnaisance Orbiter

Water-ice clouds activate Martian atmosphere

June 14, 2013, by VOANews

Scientists have long wondered why the surface temperatures on Mars rise and fall twice a day instead of once each as on Earth. The answer, according t ...

Kristian Vigenin and Shaul Kamisa-Raz

Bulgaria’s position on Bourgas investigation has not changed, Foreign Minister tells Israeli ambassador

June 10, 2013, by The Sofia Globe staff

Foreign Minister Kristian Vigenin has told the Israeli ambassador in Sofia, Shaul Kamisa-Raz, that Bulgaria’s position on the results of the investi ...

VLT image of exoplanet HD 95086b, the blue circle is the size of the orbit of Neptune in the Solar System. Photo credit: ESO/J. Rameau

Ultra-light planet found outside Solar System

June 6, 2013, by VOANews

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has discovered what appears to be the lightest planet ever to be directly observed outside of our Solar System ...


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    Asteroid 1998 QE2 to make close encounter
    May 31, 2013, by VOANews

    A 2.7-kilometer-wide asteroid will pass within 5.8 million kilometers of Earth on Friday, May 31, and while it poses no threat to Earth, it will provide a chance to collect ...

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    Telescopes spot colliding galaxies
    May 25, 2013, by VOANews

    Astronomers have gotten a rare glimpse of two distant and ancient galaxies merging. The galaxies, called HXMM01, are about 11 billion light years from Earth, meaning they offer a look ...