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Asteroids that buzz Earth
Cool infographic showing asteroids that will come closest to Earth in the next 200 years.
June 3, 2014
See three planets tonight
Jupiter, Mars, Saturn can all be seen easily on these June evenings.
June 3, 2014
Watch online Tuesday as asteroid passes at moon’s distance
Asteroid 2014 KH39 will pass just outside the moon's distance on Tuesday, June 3, at around 3 p.m. CDT (20 UTC). Watch live via the Virtual Telescope Project.
June 3, 2014
Two planets destined to die as their star expands
You know how our sun will someday swell to a red giant, swallowing the planets Mercury and Venus? These two distant exoplanets will suffer a similar fate.
June 2, 2014
Kepler-10 star system has a mega-Earth!
Astronomers believed a rocky world with 17 times Earth's mass couldn't form. But now they have discovered one.
June 2, 2014
Identify 500 birds with new Birdsnap app
Take a picture of a bird and identify it. This free new iPhone app is an electronic field guide featuring 500 of the most common North American bird species.
May 30, 2014
Flying airplanes with mind control
Researchers demonstrate that brain-controlled flight is possible.
May 29, 2014
Diamond planets more common than astronomers thought?
Study suggests that extraterrestrial worlds can be extremely diverse in their chemical compositions, including many that are drastically different from our earthly experience.
May 28, 2014
An ancient battle: A 900-pound croc takes on a 58-foot snake
An ancient, 16-foot, 900-pound crocodile may have been overmatched by a monster snake that swam in the same rivers 60 million years ago.
May 28, 2014
Crowd-funded project aims to build world’s first simulated organism
It will be the world’s most detailed virtual life form — an accurate, open-source, digital version of a worm called C. elegans.
May 28, 2014
