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Light from huge explosion 12 billion years ago reaches Earth
Intense light from an enormous star explosion more than 12 billion years ago — shortly after the Big Bang — recently reached Earth and was visible in the sky.
June 5, 2014
Rosetta spacecraft watches target comet come alive
Later this year, the Rosetta spacecraft will orbit and land on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Here's an update, in this new NASA video.
June 4, 2014
NASA has re-scheduled its ‘flying saucer’ test flight
On Tuesday, NASA was going to drop a flying-saucer-shaped vehicle from a helium balloon high above Earth's surface, in preparation for future Mars missions. But the test has been delayed, due to weather.
June 3, 2014
Asteroids that buzz Earth
Cool infographic showing asteroids that will come closest to Earth in the next 200 years.
June 3, 2014
See three planets tonight
Jupiter, Mars, Saturn can all be seen easily on these June evenings.
June 3, 2014
Watch online Tuesday as asteroid passes at moon’s distance
Asteroid 2014 KH39 will pass just outside the moon's distance on Tuesday, June 3, at around 3 p.m. CDT (20 UTC). Watch live via the Virtual Telescope Project.
June 3, 2014
Two planets destined to die as their star expands
You know how our sun will someday swell to a red giant, swallowing the planets Mercury and Venus? These two distant exoplanets will suffer a similar fate.
June 2, 2014
Kepler-10 star system has a mega-Earth!
Astronomers believed a rocky world with 17 times Earth's mass couldn't form. But now they have discovered one.
June 2, 2014
Diamond planets more common than astronomers thought?
Study suggests that extraterrestrial worlds can be extremely diverse in their chemical compositions, including many that are drastically different from our earthly experience.
May 28, 2014
Habitable environment on Martian volcano?
A volcano erupting under an immense glacier would have created large lakes of liquid water on Mars in the relatively recent past. And where there’s water, there's the possibility of life.
May 28, 2014
