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The most distant galaxy yet
It's the most distant, and therefore the earliest, yet discovered. It's seen as it was just 700 million years after the Big Bang.
October 23, 2013
View from space: Russian missile contrail
Two astronauts' photos of the contrail from a Russian missile launch
October 23, 2013
Doomsday in 2032 from asteroid 2013 TV135? Not likely
Asteroid 2013 TV135 is big. But it's not likely to hit us.
October 22, 2013
1,000 days of the sun in three minutes
Watch three years of solar activity in three minutes, in this NASA video.
October 21, 2013
See the penumbral eclipse of the Hunter’s Moon on October 18-19
You're more likely to see the eclipse from Europe or Africa than from North America. As seen from eastern North America, the eclipse will be ongoing at moonrise Friday evening.
October 17, 2013
Comet ISON appears intact
It looks like reports of Comet ISON’s demise were greatly exaggerated.
October 17, 2013
Giant fragment of Chelyabinsk meteorite lifted from Russian lake
On October 15, a giant fragment of the meteorite that hit Russia on February 15 was lifted from the bottom of Lake Chebarkul in the Russian Urals Mountains.
October 16, 2013
Signs of water detected in exoplanet’s debris
The remains of a water-rich rocky exoplanet have been discovered outside our solar system orbiting a white dwarf star 170 light years away.
October 14, 2013
Juno craft, headed for Jupiter, resumes full flight operations
After a temporary glitch that occurred after Juno's flyby of Earth on Wednesday - and after a short period in safe mode - the Jupiter-bound craft is fully functioning again.
October 12, 2013
Comet-chasing mission Rosetta: 100 days to wake-up
Rosetta will wake up soon from deep-space hibernation to reach the comet it has been cruising towards for a decade.
October 11, 2013
