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Category: Science Wire
Orbit like a comet, rocky like an asteroid
They're calling it a Manx comet, after the cats with no tails. It may have formed in the inner solar system and been ejected outward.
Deborah Byrd
May 3, 2016
Astronomical events in 2016
A month by month listing of major moon phases, conjunctions, oppositions, meteor showers and other important dates, from astronomer Fred Espenak.
Fred Espenak
May 3, 2016
Inhospitable Danakil Depression hosts extreme life
It's below sea level, with near-boiling water bubbling up from underground, high salt concentrations and toxic vapor. Yet life survives here.
Eleanor Imster
May 2, 2016
Mars rover crosses most rugged terrain so far
The Curiosity rover has nearly crossed a stretch of the roughest terrain it's seen during its 44 months on Mars. Scientists are monitoring the wear and tear on the rover's wheels.
Eleanor Imster
April 28, 2016
Does this jellyfish look like a spaceship, or what?
Video of a spectacular jellyfish that floated past NOAA's ROV on April 24, 2016 in the Mariana Trench - the deepest oceanic trench on the planet.
Eleanor Imster
April 27, 2016
Dwarf planet Makemake has a moon
This Hubble Space Telescope image reveals the first moon ever discovered around little Makemake, in the outermost region of our solar system.
Deborah Byrd
April 26, 2016
Dinosaurs already in decline before asteroid apocalypse?
New research suggests that dinosaurs were in decline tens of millions of years before the meteorite impact that finished them off.
Eleanor Imster
April 26, 2016
What Venus Express learned by aerobraking
Results from the Venus Express spacecraft, obtained when - in the craft's final months - it surfed the dense atmosphere of Venus.
Deborah Byrd
April 26, 2016
Moon rocks reveal nearby supernova
Iron-60 found in moon rocks supports an earlier finding that - 2 million years ago - a supernova exploded only 300 light-years away.
Shireen Gonzaga
April 25, 2016
Bubble Nebula looks like giant cosmic soap bubble
A new Hubble image captures - in stunning clarity - the Bubble Nebula, a cloud of gas and dust illuminated by the brilliant star within it.
Editors of EarthSky
April 23, 2016
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