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- Scientists find signs of water beyond solar system
- Matter Flashed at Ultra Speed
- Mars Probe Finds Deep Hole on Red Planet
- Massive Transiting Planet with 31-hour Year Found Around Distant Star
- Chronicle of a Death Foretold
- A Brown Dwarf Joins the Jet-Set
- Hubble observatory discovers ring of dark matter
- Astronomers study a star born soon after the Big Bang
- Astronomers make the first map of an extrasolar planet
- Exotic extrasolar planet is the hottest yet discovered
- Stellar explosion brightest supernova ever seen
- Radar experiment from Earth says Mercury has molten core
- Mars rover finds evidence of ancient volcanic explosion
- Spitzer digs up hidden stars
- Astronomers discover a super-massive planet
- Sharp views show ground ice on Mars is patchy, variable
- Black holes may fill the universe with seeds of life
- Scientists discover vast intergalactic cloud of plasma
- Cosmologically speaking, diamonds may actually be forever
- Climate catastrophes in the Solar System
- Astronomers Find First Earth-like Planet in Habitable Zone
- Hubble sees extreme star birth in the Carina Nebula
- Astronomers map out planetary danger zone
- Cosmic weight loss: The lowest mass white dwarf
- Brown dwarfs: A new class
- Mystery of galaxy's spiral arms possibly explained
- Beauty of barred spiral galaxy shown by Hubble
- Orbiter images suggest possible caves on Mars
- A dead star seen snacking on shredded asteroid
- Planets found thriving around stellar twins
- The Purple Rose of Virgo
- Mars' south pole ice found to be deep and wide
- A midnight plume on Io
- Star Family Seen Through Dusty Fog
- New panorama reveals more than a thousand black holes
- Gamma-ray birth cries suggest magnetic engines
- XMM-Newton reveals a magnetic surprise
- An experiment that hints we are wrong on climate change
- The Great Cometary Show
- Large Telescopes Team Up to Help Astronomers Discover a Trio of Quasars
- Does water STILL flow on Mars?
- Earth-Like Planet Discovered Orbiting Nearby Star
- Dazzling image captures violent birth of stars
- Earth's moon destined to disintegrate
- The sun may have a dimmer switch
- Theoretical physicists develop test for string theory
- Andromeda Involved In Ancient Galactic Collision
- Hubble Space Telecope's Main Camera Offline, Some Science Lost
- Surface of Mars Devoid of Life
- Cosmic Superstrings Might Sing in Gravity Waves
- New 'Hobbit' Galaxies Discovered Around Milky Way
- Giant Planets' Supersonic Winds Keep Them Toasty Year-Round
- Burned-Out, Old Stars Can Kick Start Solar Activity
- 'Pillars of Creation' in Space Toppled by Stellar Blast
- Key to Planet Formation Found in Space Lint
- Portrait of a dramatic stellar crib
- X-ray evidence supports possible new class of supernova
- Astronomers discover an enormous halo of red giant stars around Andromeda
- Astronomers detect black hole in tiny 'dwarf' galaxy
- Gas giants jump into planet formation early
- Researchers using Arecibo Telescope discover never-before-seen pulsar blasts in Crab Nebula
- Superstrings could add gravitational cacophony to universe's chorus
- Quasar light variability linked to black hole mass
- New stars shed light on the past
- Astronomers find triple interactions of supermassive black holes to be common in early universe
- Andromeda Galaxy takes up much more space
- Dark matter mapped in 3-D detail
- Pluto's revenge: 'Word of the Year' award
- Scientist: NASA found life on Mars -- and killed it
- New Forecast: Severe Space Storm Headed to Earth
- China's white dolphin called extinct after 20 million years
- The Rise of a Giant
- Images suggest mud flows on Mars
- Do Galaxies Follow Darwinian Evolution?
- Spacecraft catches black hole munching on a star
- Asymmetric Ashes
- Ancient tsunami devastated Mediterranean
- Integral spacecraft catches a new erupting black hole
- Supercomputer studies Milky Way's halo of dark matter
- Study finds that a single impact killed the dinosaurs
- The Topsy-Turvy Galaxy
- Twin star explosions fascinate astronomers
- Spinning black hole pushes the speed limit
- Team discovers exotic relatives of protons, neutrons
- Cut from Different Cloth
- Dark energy traced back to cosmic infancy
- Chandra discovers relativistic pinball machine
- Astronomers confirm asteroid 'KW4' is not a threat to Earth
- Twenty new stars in the neighborhood
- Catch a Star!
- Cassini stares into the eye of monster storm on Saturn
- Spitzer and Hubble create colorful masterpiece
- Gravity helps reveal a brilliant jewel of the early universe
- Early Earth's haze may have spurred life
- Monster stellar flare dwarfs all others seen
- Greenland ice sheet on a downward slide
- Spitzer peels back layers of star's explosion
- The Star, the Dwarf and the Planet
- Spitzer sees day and night on exotic world
- Flies in a spider's web: Galaxy caught in the making
- NASA finds Saturn's moons may be creating new rings
- Rings show evidence of a modern-day collision
- Cassini image shows Saturn draped in a string of pearls
- Jupiter's Little Red Spot growing stronger
- Hubble confirms nearest known extrasolar planet
- Chandra reviews black hole musical: Epic but off-key
- Swift performs headcount of local black holes
- Mars rover spotted at crater by sharp-eyed orbiter
- Scientists nudge closer to the edge of a black hole
- Determining the nature of black hole jets
- Increasing the Odds of the Sweep
- Stellar Vampires Unmasked
- Hubble finds extrasolar planets far across galaxy
- Planets prefer safe neighborhoods
- Hubble finds dark cloud in the atmosphere of Uranus
- Stellar birth control in the early universe
- What an Opportunity! Mars rover reaches new milestone
- Watching How Planets Form
- Fast-spinning star on verge of breaking apart
- Massive stars made in ‘doughnut’ factory
- Pluto probe snaps picture of Jupiter
- Archaeopteryx May Have Had Four Wings, Not Two
- Astronomers find supernova first spotted in A.D. 185
- Hundreds of young galaxies found in early universe
- Jupiter-size planet found by telescope network
- Despite Fears, Black-Hole Factory Will Not Destroy Earth
- To Be or Not to Be: Is It All About Spinning?
- Mars Face Makeover
- Distorted Solar System Discovered
- Scientists discover new ring of Saturn and more
- Hubble Spots 500 Galaxies in Early Universe
- Exploding star 'breaks the rules'
- The hunt for other Earths
- Mission sunward: better forecasting for solar storms
- Experts rethinking how stars explode
- Giant, ultralight planet baffles scientists
- Astronomers Give Dwarf Planet Xena Official Name: 'Eris'
- First Bright Galaxies Formed Very Rapidly
- Pluto is Now Just a Number: 134340
- A "Genetic Study" of the Galaxy
- Newfound Object Further Blurs Planet Definition
- Supernova caught in its exploding act
- New dinosaur type unearthed in Brazil
- Pluto vote 'hijacked' in revolt
- Hubble images some of galaxy's dimmest stars
- Mystery of Quintuplet stars in Milky Way solved
- Earth's Moon Could Become a Planet
- Pluto May Get Demoted After All
- Far Away Galaxy Under The Microscope
- Australia collided together
- Probe captures gas bursts from Mars's ice cap
- New definition would add 3 'planets' to Solar System
- Heavy hydrogen find alters galaxy theory
- Physicist James Van Allen dies at 91
- Universe might be bigger, older than expected
- A Sub-Stellar Jonah
- Star system could hold habitable planet
- By Jupiter, scientists find 'Red Spot Jr.'
- Peroxide snow on Mars may make planet inhospitable
- New type of volcano pops up
- Cosmic blob biggest thing in universe
- Did 'Nessie' roam Down Under?
- Cassini's radar mapper finds possible lakes on Titan
- Planet-forming disks might put the brakes on stars
- New view of quasar emerges
- Mystery of explosive star solved
- Black hole findings yield new mysteries
- Hubble camera comes back to life
- Hubble reveals two dust disks around nearby star
- The Hooked Galaxy
- Did ancient Amazonians build a 'Stonehenge'?
- Magnetism nudges matter into black holes
- Pluto’s new moons named Hydra and Nix
- Huge underwater volcano discovered off Sicily
- Southern San Andreas fault waiting to explode
- Study Says Earth's Temp at 400-Year High
- Earth surrounded by giant fizzy bubbles
- Dusty mystery surrounds exploding stars
- Neptune linked to potential asteroid swarm
- Milky Way's sister galaxy shines in new portrait
- Researchers explain gas planet satellite systems
- Scientists respond to Gore's warnings of climate catastrophe
- Aging Hubble blind in one eye
- Large meteorite hits northern Norway
- Record meteorite hit Norway
- Definition of 'Planet' Expected in September
- Maturity of Farthest Galaxy Cluster Surprises Astronomers
- Star's Planets Might Have Mountains of Diamonds
- Yerkes Observatory to become luxury spa
- Early Life May Have Endured 'Snowball Earth'
- Fossil mounds may be oldest life on Earth
- A Star Explodes and Devours Its Planets
- Do 'Planemos' Have Progeny?
- Ancient rock art may depict exploding star
- Jovian storms prepare for showdown
- Asteroid turns out to be a rubble pile
- Antarctic crater linked to ancient die-off
- Saturn's Moon Did Cosmic Flop
- Deserts Expanding With Jet Stream Shift
- Video captures deep-sea volcanic eruptions
- Hubble captures a 'five-star' rated gravitational lens
- A new ruler available to measure the universe
- From dark to bright and red to white on Iapetus
- Mountain Moved 62 Miles in 30 Minutes
- Voyager II detects solar system's edge
- Earth-solar cycle spurs greenhouse gases
- Backyard Approach Finds Extrasolar Planet
- The End of Small Galaxies
- Asteroid risk to Earth lowered, scientists say
- Dwarfs gave way to giants
- Faraway planetary system may be habitable
- Trio of Neptunes and their Belt
- Sun's Currents of Fire Slow to Record Low
- Largest Cosmic Map Confirms How Little We Know
- Light's most exotic trick yet: So fast it goes ... backwards?
- New scenario explains origin of Neptune's oddball moon
- The record of Rhea
- Neptune Might Have Captured Triton
- Big Meteorite Creates Big Mysteries
- Twin Explosions In Gigantic Dusty Potato Crisp
- Killer gamma-ray bursts? Forget about it!
- Crumbling comet may spark future meteors
- Ancient die-off blamed on climate, not humans
- China reports discovery of ancient city
- Mexican monolith could change history
- Physics in Universe's Youth
- The Comet With a Broken Heart
- The chameleon supernova
- "Seas" of Titan are sand
- First view of monstrous stars being born
- Closest-spaced giant black hole pair found
- Hubble's spectacular view of a comet's breakup
- Digging into the secrets of fossil galaxy clusters
- Galaxies don mask of stars in new Spitzer image
- Old black holes rumble with roar of particle jets
- Hidden structure of neutron star seen in starquake
- Galaxies are born inside dark matter clumps
- Fragmenting Comet Won't Hit Earth
- Saturn's moon Titan has dunes
- Giant rock growing in Mount St. Helens' crater
- Big new asteroid has slim chance of hitting Earth
- Royal tomb found hidden in Maya pyramid
- Scientists worry about solar superstorm
- Hubble captures the shattering of a comet
- Big planets' groovy moves made them tilt
- Mars Was Wet, Warm 4 Billion Years Ago
- Black holes are actually 'green'
- Fossil suggests snakes evolved on land
- Apollo lunar rocks suggest meteorite shower
- Crescent Titan with rings
- The Great Easter Egg Hunt: The Void's Incredible Richness
- Survey finds galaxy cluster building-block process
- Search for dark galaxies
- Exploding 'star within a star'
- Giant Bubble Bullies Our Space
- Star Explodes Inside Atmosphere of Another
- Uranus has a rare blue ring
- Cosmic Spider is Good Mother
- Cassini changes earlier belief about Saturn A-ring
- Chandra finds evidence for quasar ignition
- Sun's exotic neighbor
- Pair of black holes locked in death dance
- Mercury's formation impact splattered Earth
- Solar wind whips up auroral storms on Jupiter and Saturn
- Hubble's stunning view of nearby dust clouds
- Swift observes an unusual bang in the far universe
- Prometheus' pull on particles in Saturn F-ring
- Massive amounts of water released by comet hit
- Planetary Disk Spotted Around Supernova Remnant
- Pyramid presents religious quandary for suburban Mexicans
- Alcohol cloud is 463 billion kilometres long
- Unraveling a cosmic mystery
- Key Found to Birth of Super-Galaxies
- Caribbean coral suffers record die-off
- Study stirs debate over dinosaurs’ fate
- Archaeologist links palace to legendary Ajax
- Mars meteorite similar to bacteria-etched Earth rocks
- New oxygen recipe on icy moons
- Cannibal stars like their food hot
- Mini-Comets Approaching Earth
- Is Dark Matter Made up of Sterile Neutrinos?
- Dead Star Cores Surrounded in Superhot Gas
- Comets May Be the Source of Earth's Water
- Quasar Ignition in the Distant Universe
- Rotation Of Earth Plunges Entire North American Continent Into Darkness
- The Sun's New Exotic Neighbour
- Great galactic buddies
- Dinosaur May Have Had Longest Neck Ever
- Scenes from Homer found in Cyprus 'warrior tomb'
- Afterglow sheds light on Big Bang inflation
- Double helix nebula found in center of the Milky Way
- New planet: Icy super-Earth dominates distant system
- Astronomers get a chance to size up a brown dwarf
- River of stars streams across the northern sky
- A Continent Splits Apart
- The Cosmic Dance of Distant Galaxies
- Greetings, Earthlings! -- from Google Mars
- Rat-squirrel back after 11-million-year absence
- Cassini finds evidence for water on Enceladus
- Scientists piece together the most distant explosion
- Unprecedented forecast issued for next sunspot cycle
- The air up there at Titan
- To the relief of Iapetus
- Space mission finds significant Antarctic ice loss
- Jupiter's New Red Spot
- A shocking surprise in Stephan's Quintet
- Does Titan's methane originate from underground?
- Telescopes 'worthless' by 2050
- 'Deep impact' of pulsar plunging into gas ring
- Scientists uncover lost civilization
- Milky Way, Andromeda had similar origins
- Hubble's largest galaxy portrait showcases Pinwheel
- Cepheids and their 'Cocoons'
- A blast to chase
- New Milky Way map reveals millions of unseen objects
- Rhea's wisps in color
- Scientists Detect New Kind of Cosmic Explosion
- Solving a cosmic ray mystery
- Amateurs spot 10th planet
- There's More to the North Star Than Meets the Eye
- A Blast To Chase
- Hot alien world is the closest directly detected
- Pluto might have rings
- Pluto's new moons likely born with Charon
- Deep X-ray surveys reveal black hole population
- Pulsar is on its way out
- The invisible galaxies that could not hide
- Greenland ice loss doubles in past decade
- Astronomers find new kind of cosmic object
- System found where planets may orbit backward
- Cassini looks at dim duo
- A closer look at Saturn's moon Telesto
- Sounds near middle 'C' rock stars to death
- Mars rover reaches 'Home Plate'
- Telescope spots two mega solar systems
- Intact tomb found in Valley of the Kings
- Oldest Known Tyrannosaur Found
- There's More to the North Star Than Meets the Eye
- Scientist predicts 'mini Ice Age'
- Asteroids near Jupiter are really comets
- Water ice detected on comet's surface
- Hot Halo Surrounds Distant Galaxy
- Rough and Tumble Hyperion
- Claritas Fossae on Mars
- New 'planet' bigger than Pluto
- Most stars in the Milky Way are single, study shows
- The Smell of Moondust
- Prime time to view Saturn
- Alaska volcano continues to belch ash
- Adirondacks a skygazer's paradise
- Two 'exiled' stars are leaving Milky Way forever
- Remembering Challenger
- Retracing the Challenger tragedy: Chapter 1: A chill at the Cape
- 7 myths about the Challenger shuttle disaster
- NASA remembers fallen astronauts
- Fossil hunters make rare find in basement
- New technique finds Earth-like planet
- Icy Epimetheus
- It's Far, It's Small, It's Cool: It's an Icy Exoplanet!
- Twin Mars rovers still exploring after two years
- The mark of a dying star
- Spying Titan's weather
- Moons in perspective
- Huge "Superbubble" of Gas Blowing Out of Milky Way
- Pulsar Spinning at an Incredible 716 Revolutions per Second
- Icy Martian Glaciers
- World's Largest Telescope
- Saturnian Storms About to Merge
- Asteroid Broke Up 8.2 Million Years Ago
- Juventae Chasma on Mars
- Kuiper Belt-Like Disks Around Two Nearby Stars
- Fossil Galaxy in the Early Universe
- Augustine Volcano Erupts Yet Again
- New Horizons on way to Pluto carrying the ashes of Clyde Tombaugh
- Spinning Pulsar Smashes Record
- Worlds With Multiple Suns Abundant
- Space 'Slinky' Confirms Theory with a Twist
- Kuiper belt moons are starting to seem typical
- Cartwheel Galaxy makes waves in new NASA image
- Galaxy survey yields new findings on star formation
- Space probes detect enormous magnetic reconnection event
- The Next Orion Nebula
- Dark Matter Galaxy?
- Stardust capsule lands in Utah
- Alaska volcano keeps erupting
- New Doubts Are Cast on Einstein's Cosmological Constant
- New Milky Way neighbor
- Vega Mystery Solved; Red Dwarf Mystery Grows
- Hubble's view of Orion reveals thousands of stars
- Spitzer finds possible comet dust around dead star
- Planet finders discover new world with fast device
- Study notes role of hit-and-run collisions in formations
- Spitzer captures our galaxy's bustling center
- Monster black holes grow after galactic mergers
- NASA's Chandra finds black holes stirring up galaxies
- There's more to the North Star than meets the eye
- Scientists probe black hole's inner sanctum
- Scientists find 'point of no return' for black hole
- Seeing high in Saturn's sky
- Adrift at Saturn
- Milky Way's warp caused by interloping galaxies
- Hubble eyes North Star companions
- It's a long ride into a black hole
- Computer users wanted in star dust hunt
- Star reveals more evidence for new kind of black hole
- Looking down the mouth of an interstellar cavern
- Rare opportunity seized to measure Pluto's large moon
- Integral identifies supernova rate for Milky Way
- Wanted: Amateur stargazers to help solve mystery
- Pluto colder than it should be
- A Creator's Possible Calling Card
- Cassini's maps of several Saturn moons released
- Star near Southern Cross is ringing like a bell
- Galaxy's Neighboring Spiral Arm Is Closer Than Thought
- Imaging the dark side of Venus
- An Explosion on the Moon