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Zombie star eats an asteroid
What's left in a solar system whose central sun has become a white dwarf? This study shows what our own solar system might become, billions of years from now.
November 16, 2015
Supersonic winds hurtle around exoplanet
The winds move at 2 kilometers per second. That's about 7 times faster than the speed of sound and 20 times faster than any winds ever recorded on Earth.
November 16, 2015
Asteroid buzzed Earth this weekend, hours after discovery
Discovered on Saturday, closest just hours later, this small asteroid came closer to Earth than weather and television satellites orbit.
November 15, 2015
Mystery object WTF has come home
It was the first time astronomers knew just when and where a piece of space debris would reenter Earth's atmosphere. It was last night, over the Indian Ocean.
November 14, 2015
Mars’ moon Phobos slowly falling apart
The mysterious grooves on Phobos are likely early signs of structural failure. Scientists expect the moon to be pulled apart in 30 to 50 million years.
November 13, 2015
Cassini spots monstrous ice cloud on Titan
As winter sets in at the south pole of Saturn's moon Titan, a massive ice cloud has been forming. It's the "button" in this image from the Cassini spacecraft.
November 13, 2015
Comet Encke pelts Mercury with meteors
This comet is the same one causing the amazing display of Taurid fireballs on Earth this year. And so our solar system begins to seem a little more familiar.
November 11, 2015
Pluto might have ice volcanoes
Two of Pluto's mountains could be cryovolcanoes - ice volcanoes - that might have spewed an ammonia-ice slurry in the recent geological past.
November 10, 2015
Pluto’s moons spinning wildly
"These are four of the strangest moons in the solar system," said New Horizons mission's Mark Showalter. "We still don't know what to make of it."
November 10, 2015
NASA is recruiting astronauts
Want to be an astronaut? NASA is seeking explorers for future space missions. Here's what it takes and how to apply.
November 9, 2015
