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Meteor over New Zealand described as ball of fire
Many in New Zealand saw a bright object streak across the night sky on April 2, 2012. It looks like a meteor, but that has not been confirmed.
April 2, 2012
New evidence that comets deposited building blocks of life on primordial Earth
Comets bombarding Earth billions of years ago carried and deposited the key ingredients for life to spring up on our planet, according to new research.
March 30, 2012
Microbes on or within Saturn’s moon Enceladus?
"It sounds crazy but it could be snowing microbes on the surface of this little world," a space scientist said of Saturn's moon Enceladus.
March 30, 2012
Minimoons may be usual orbiting Earth
Astronomers used a supercomputer to simulate the passage asteroids past Earth, resulting in the insight that Earth frequently has "minimoons."
March 30, 2012
Huge tornadoes discovered on the sun
The solar atmosphere can generate huge tornadoes discovered on the sun that are several times as wide as the Earth. Here's the first movie of one.
March 28, 2012
Help find Hubble images’ hidden treasures
You can win an iPod or iPad for the rare privilege of seeing something wonderful that no one has noticed before, in Hubble Space Telescope images.
March 28, 2012
Edge of the electromagnetic spectrum brings mysteries
Probing the universe at the edge of the electromagnetic spectrum, NASA's Fermi Gamma-Ray Telescope has just completed an all-sky map.
March 26, 2012
ISS crew took shelter to avoid passing space junk
In the third incident of its kind in more than a decade, the six-member crew of ISS took shelter Saturday when space junk whizzed past.
March 25, 2012
Runaway planets moving at relativistic speeds are possible
If a double star system - one with planets - encountered the giant black hole at the center of our Milky Way, the result might be a runaway planets.
March 25, 2012
Water lakes on Europa may potentially exist
Scientists have discovered evidence of underground water lakes on Europa as big as the Great Lakes on Earthe. The icy moon might support life.
March 23, 2012
