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Astronauts and cosmonauts call for global cooperation on asteroid threat
“Asteroid impacts have dramatically altered the course of life on Earth and a rogue asteroid will certainly strike Earth, posing a global threat to human life and society.” - Astronaut Tom Jones
October 28, 2013
A glimpse of the violent past of Milky Way’s giant black hole
A new study shows that the Milky Way's supermassive black hole had at least two major outbursts in the last few centuries.
October 25, 2013
Aboriginal hunting practice increases animal populations
Burning approach mixing practical philosophy and knowledge leads to near doubling of lizards and improves habitat.
October 25, 2013
Our Milky Way galaxy wobbles
Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, makes small wobbling movements. Possible causes include the passage of a smaller galaxy through our own.
October 24, 2013
The most distant galaxy yet
It's the most distant, and therefore the earliest, yet discovered. It's seen as it was just 700 million years after the Big Bang.
October 23, 2013
View from space: Russian missile contrail
Two astronauts' photos of the contrail from a Russian missile launch
October 23, 2013
Link between Neanderthals and humans is still missing
The search for a common ancestor that connects modern humans with the Neanderthals who lived in Europe thousands of years ago isn’t over yet, researchers say.
October 22, 2013
How climate change affects microbial life below the seafloor
Sediments from the deep sea give insight into the dynamics of the deep biosphere.
October 22, 2013
View from space: Life reclaims Mount St. Helens
Two satellite images show how life has returned to Mount St. Helens since the volcanic eruption of 1980.
October 21, 2013
1,000 days of the sun in three minutes
Watch three years of solar activity in three minutes, in this NASA video.
October 21, 2013
