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Pluto team live on Facebook January 19
The New Horizons team will be discussing the historic Pluto encounter and the spacecraft's next target in the Kuiper Belt - live on Facebook - beginning at at 4 p.m. EST (21:00 UTC).
January 18, 2017
Hubble spies exocomets’ plunge into star
Interstellar forecast for a nearby star: Raining comets! The Hubble Space Telescope has discovered doomed, wayward comets plunging into the star HD 172555.
January 17, 2017
Vesta, brightest asteroid, brightest for 2017
If you've never spotted an asteroid, now would be a good time to try. Vesta's 2017 opposition is around now. Guy Ottewell provides charts and explains more.
January 16, 2017
Seeking Alpha Centauri’s unseen planets
A new agreement between the European Southern Observatory and Breakthrough Initiatives will let ESO's Very Large Telescope seek planets in the star system next door.
January 14, 2017
Watch 2017’s 2nd spacewalk Friday
ISS astronauts will work on a complex upgrade to the station’s power system during the January 13, 2017 spacewalk. Spacewalk begins around 7 a.m. EST (1200 UTC) and is expected to last about 6 hours.
January 13, 2017
Hubble peers along Voyagers’ future paths
The Hubble Space Telescope is gazing along the future trajectories of the 2 Voyager spacecraft - launched in 1977 - now heading into uncharted interstellar space.
January 8, 2017
Mars spacecraft spies Earth and moon
A powerful telescope orbiting Mars gives us a new view of Earth and its moon, showing continent-size detail on Earth and the relative size of the moon.
January 7, 2017
NASA announces 2 new asteroid missions
NASA's new Lucy mission will tour 6 Trojan asteroids in Jupiter's orbit. The other mission will go to 16 Psyche, a metal asteroid.
January 7, 2017
Black hole bonanza in deep x-ray image
A new ultra-deep X-ray image from Chandra X-ray Observatory has given astronomers their best look yet at the growth of black holes over billions of years, starting soon after the Big Bang.
January 7, 2017
Star predicted to explode in 2022
If and when 2 stars in this binary system merge - as predicted - they'll increase in brightness 10 thousandfold, temporarily becoming a bright star in Earth's sky.
January 6, 2017
