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Woot! 4,001 exoplanets and counting
The Exoplanet Team, led by the Observatoire de Paris, announced this week that the list of known exoplanets - planets orbiting distant stars - has grown to 4,001!
March 13, 2019
Small asteroid to sweep closer than moon’s distance
The house-sized asteroid - designated 2019 EA2 - will pass safely by our planet on the night of March 21-22, 2019.
March 13, 2019
A sign of spring
A bluebird on a snowy day in Massachusetts is a sign that spring is coming.
March 13, 2019
Dinosaurs thrived before fatal asteroid impact
Scientists have debated whether the dinosaurs were already in decline before a massive asteroid impact finished them off 66 million years ago. New research shows they were thriving in their final days.
March 12, 2019
Astronomers probe a baby star’s mystery gas flows
They used the ALMA telescope to observe a slow outflow and a high speed jet from a newly forming star. These two streams appear misaligned and were apparently launched from different parts of the star-forming disk.
March 12, 2019
Why are some icebergs green?
A new idea might solve a decades-long scientific mystery about why some Antarctic icebergs are tinged emerald green rather than the normal blue.
March 12, 2019
Moon, Mars and me
Niko Powe waved a sparkler at the starry sky. He wrote, "Sirius, Orion, Hyades, Pleiades, the moon, Mars, and me."
March 12, 2019
How Hubble and Gaia weighed the Milky Way
Scientists used the measured velocities of 44 globular star clusters to measure the mass of our home galaxy, the Milky Way.
March 11, 2019
Thousands of tiny ice quakes shake Antarctica at night
Stay overnight on an Antarctic ice shelf, and you might feel the shaking from thousands of tiny quakes as the ice re-forms after melting during the day.
March 11, 2019
Moon passes Mars, Pleiades, Aldebaran March 10-12
On March 10, 11 and 12, 2019, let the moon be your guide to the red planet Mars and the constellation Taurus' two major signposts: Aldebaran and the Pleiades cluster.
March 10, 2019
