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Heavenly Palace modules makes historic space dock
China made a historic space first today with the dock of the Heavenly Palace modules, pieces of a permanent space station to be completed by 2020.
November 2, 2011
Star with spiral arms spotted by astronomers
SAO 206462 appears to be a relatively young star with spiral arms surrounding it, maybe it's a planetary system.
November 1, 2011
NASA in final preparations for large asteroid flyby November 8
NASA will be tracking 2005 YU55 with antennas of the Deep Space Network in California as the asteroid flies closer than the moon's distance on November 8, 2011.
October 30, 2011
October 30 successful Soyuz rocket launch is good news for ISS
The successful launch of the Soyuz rocket on October 30, 2011 means the International Space Station won't go unmanned, as some had feared.
October 30, 2011
Nebula NGC 281 dazzles in the infrared
Imagery from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) highlights erosion by a young star cluster in nebula NGC 281.
October 29, 2011
Hal Levison on Saturn’s weird moon Iapetus
"Iapetus is one of the weirdest things in the solar system, said Levision, "and as we study it more and more, it gets weirder and weirder."
October 28, 2011
Epic northern lights on October 24, even in southerly latitudes
Many people - even in some southern states of the U.S. - saw a great display of northern lights over North America on the night of October 24.
October 25, 2011
The space shuttles: Where are they now?
The space shuttle program was one of the most visible, successful and adored missions in NASA's history. Here's where the space shuttles will end up.
October 21, 2011
Planet-sized object has temp like Arizona summer day
The white dwarf WD 0806-661 has an orbiting brown dwarf companion - a planet-sized object - whose surface temperature is in a range comprehensible to us humans.
October 21, 2011
Study of dwarf galaxies deepens mystery of dark matter
Researchers look at two dwarf galaxies and find no dark matter clumped at the centers, contrary to what a standard model predicts.
October 19, 2011
