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Most distant massive galaxy cluster
Astronomers have detected a massive, churning galaxy cluster - with potentially thousands of individual galaxies - in the early universe.
January 11, 2016
SpaceX to try again for sea landing
SpaceX has been trying, but not succeeding, to land its Falcon 9 rocket upright at sea. Then, last month it succeeded on land. Soon, another sea-going attempt!
January 10, 2016
What to expect from El Niño
The third-recorded super El Niño is underway. Top climate expert Kevin Trenberth reports.
January 10, 2016
Gorgeous timelapse of California skies
Southern California night skies ... looking from inside massive sea caves and across miles of inland desert. Wonder Endlessly timelapse by Jack Fusco.
January 9, 2016
EarthSky News with Deborah Byrd
All the news you can fit into outer space LIVE on Slooh.com Mondays and Thursdays at 10:30 a.m. ET (1530 UTC). Or watch right here!
January 7, 2016
A black hole’s double belch
At 26 million light-years from Earth, NGC 5195 has one of the nearest supermassive black holes to Earth that's currently undergoing such violent outbursts.
January 7, 2016
Kepler is back! 100 new planets
Astronomers meeting in Florida this week announced the 2015 results in the planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft's second-chance mission, dubbed K2.
January 7, 2016
Astronomers find dozens of runaway stars
As water piles up before a ship, so material stacks up ahead of high-mass stars moving fast through space. These cosmic bows shocks revealed the runaway stars.
January 6, 2016
Ancient life in globular star clusters?
Astronomers have said globular clusters might not foster planets, and only one such planet is known. Here are new arguments on why they might exist, after all.
January 6, 2016
