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Earth from the moon’s far side
Students participating in the MoonKAM project used NASA's GRAIL spacecraft to capture this wonderful image of Earth as seen from the moon's far side.
April 14, 2012
Fomalhaut: Ongoing comet massacre around bright star
Each day, the equivalent of either two 10 kilometer-sized comets - or 2,000 1 kilometer-sized comets - might be crushed into dust particles around Fomalhaut.
April 11, 2012
NASA extends Spitzer, Kepler and Planck missions
NASA extends three space-based astrophysics missions. All three probe deep mysteries of the cosmos and try to answer fundamental questions.
April 8, 2012
Galaxies caught in act of capturing star ingredients
The discovery is an important step to understanding how galaxies grow and sustain themselves over timescales as long as the age of the universe.
April 5, 2012
Pulsars could help future astronauts navigate the universe
Astronomers explain how pulsars - interstellar beacons - could help future astronauts find their way across the universe.
April 3, 2012
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
