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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