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Ice cores confirm colossal solar storms
Evidence that Earth was hit by two solar storms - 10 times larger than those observed recently - 1,000 years ago. If they occurred today, they'd have devastating effects on power supplies, satellites and communications.
October 27, 2015
SOHO’s thousands of doomed comets
SOHO - Solar and Heliospheric Observatory - is the greatest comet-discoverer of all time. It has found 3,000 comets ... but our sun has destroyed nearly all of them.
October 27, 2015
Kerberos images complete Pluto family portrait
Images of Pluto's tiny moon Kerberos recently downlinked from New Horizons spacecraft. We now have images of all five Pluto moons.
October 25, 2015
Milky Way photo with 46 billion pixels
It's the largest astronomical image of all time, used by astronomers in the search for distant exoplanets and multiple star systems.
October 25, 2015
New Hubble views of earliest galaxies
The largest sample yet of the faintest and earliest known galaxies in the universe, revealed by Hubble. Some formed just 600 million years after the Big Bang.
October 25, 2015
Astronomers find dead star destroying a planet
"This is something no human has seen before," said astronomer Andrew Vanderburg "We're watching a solar system being destroyed."
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
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
