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Asteroid showers linked to mass extinctions, says study
Scientists find links between comet and asteroid showers and recurring mass extinctions of life on Earth, including the demise of the dinosaurs.
October 21, 2015
Daily views of Earth on new NASA website
Each sequence of images shows the Earth as it rotates, revealing the whole globe over the course of a day from a million miles away. It's cool!
October 21, 2015
Hottest, heaviest touching double star
Astronomers say the two stars might be heading for catastrophe. They will likely either merge to create a single giant star or form a double black hole.
October 21, 2015
Car lights, starlight
Have you ever driven along a mountain road in Colorado? How about at night?
October 21, 2015
A possible – not likely – alien megastructure
KIC 8462852 is an oddly dimming star - 1,500 light-years away. It might or might not be surrounded by vast megastructures in space, built by aliens.
October 20, 2015
NASA unveils Pluto Time mosaics
Mosaics of Pluto and Charon, created from your photos sent to NASA during this summer's #PlutoTime campaign.
October 20, 2015
Most Earths yet to be born?
Most of the potentially habitable Earth-like planets in the universe have yet to be born, according to a new theoretical study.
October 20, 2015
Brain activity pattern as unique as fingerprint
Your brain scans are quintessentially you, says a new Yale study.
October 19, 2015
New Cassini images of Enceladus
Images from last week's flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus, one of three planned for this month ... the final close flybys of Enceladus with the Cassini spacecraft.
October 19, 2015
