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Astonishing image of planet-forming disk from ALMA
It looks like an artist's illustration, but it's a real image and it lets us glimpse the process by which planets are born in orbit around their stars.
November 6, 2014
How G2 survived the black hole at our Milky Way’s heart
Astronomers watched in fascination as an object called G2 appeared to edge closer to our Milky Way's central black hole. But G2 survived!
November 4, 2014
Video: How to land on a comet
On November 12, the Rosetta spacecraft will attempt something "ridiculously difficult:" landing a probe on the surface of a speeding comet.
November 4, 2014
How a violent collision at Vesta’s pole formed equatorial grooves
Researchers used an ultra-high-speed cannon to simulate a collision on Vesta. Images taken at a million frames per second show how Vesta got its grooves.
November 4, 2014
Collect call from E.T. Do you accept the charges?
Odds are there’s intelligent life out there somewhere among the stars. Why haven’t we heard from an alien civilization? One viewpoint, in this article. What do YOU think?
November 4, 2014
Cassini captures sunglint from Titan’s seas
Here's a newly released color mosaic of Titan - taken in near-infrared part of the spectrum - showing the sun glinting off of Titan's north polar seas. Beautiful!
November 3, 2014
1 dead 1 injured after crash of Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo
Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo rocket plane - a craft intended to carry tourists on suborbital flights - exploded and crashed during a test flight Friday.
November 1, 2014
Extraordinary shot of moon’s far side and Earth, from Chang’e
China’s Chang'e 5 spacecraft rounded the lunar far side earlier this week, on the return leg of its journey to the moon. It's now safely back on Earth.
November 1, 2014
Star system like a wheel within a wheel
Scientists found dust and gas flowing from an outer disk around a star toward a possible second, smaller disk around a second star. Planets may be forming here!
October 31, 2014
Success in the search for quiet, distant quasars
If quasars weren't so luminous, we couldn't see them so far away in space and time. But how about modest quasars, also far away? Astronomers say they've found some.
October 29, 2014
