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Awesome look at place where stars collide
This beautiful stellar jewel-box – a tightly packed cluster of stars - is one of the few places in our galaxy where astronomers think stars can actually collide.
June 18, 2015
A robotic dog’s mortality
When Sony stopped manufacturing replacement parts for its Aibo pet robot, owners scrambled to save the robot-dogs that had become part of their families.
June 18, 2015
New Horizons has a cool teaser trailer!
New video captures the excitement of the upcoming July 14 spacecraft encounter with Pluto. The real thing will be better and is just ahead.
June 17, 2015
Tropical Depression Bill a flood threat
Bill made landfall late Tuesday morning as a tropical storm. Now weakened, it will produce heavy rain in parts of the south-central U.S. on Wednesday.
June 17, 2015
Supermassive black hole is serial exploder
Astronomers see cavities - like giant bubbles - in hot gas around galaxy cluster NGC 5813, caused by multiple eruptions over millions of years of a black hole.
June 16, 2015
Mount Everest shifted 3 centimeters by Nepal earthquake
Located on the China-Nepal border, Mount Everest - highest mountain on Earth - sits where two of Earth's great land plates meet. Thus it's always moving ...
June 16, 2015
Don’t miss jaw-dropping Venus/Jupiter encounter
Venus and Jupiter are converging for a must-see close encounter at the end of June. It could be the best backyard sky show of 2015.
June 15, 2015
Cosmic ray observatory to explore hotspot
Utah scientists propose an expansion for their cosmic ray observatory, to speed up studies of a mysterious source of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays.
June 15, 2015
Real Jurassic Park needs more than dinos
Yes, cloning long-extinct dinosaurs is impossible. But even if dinosaur genomes were available, the animals couldn’t simply be plopped anywhere.
June 15, 2015
Philae comet lander is awake!
Seven months after it lost contact with Earth, the Rosetta mission's Philae lander hibernating on comet 67P has woken up and tweeted, "Hello Earth!"
June 15, 2015
