• Moon Dirt Mystery Piled Up Over Billions of Years

    Updated: 2010-05-31 16:31:34
    Cosmic material that has settled on the moon over billions of years could shed light on where a peculiar type of nitrogen in our solar system came from.

  • Mars and Bright Star to Make Colorful Pair in June

    Updated: 2010-05-31 16:31:34
    Mars and a bright star are teaming up in June.

  • NASA's Orion Lifeboat Makes Waves for Boeing's Commercial Spaceship Plan

    Updated: 2010-05-31 16:31:34
    Boeing is willing to build a crew capsule for NASA on a commercial fixed-price basis but is troubled by the agency's plans to continue funding development of the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle to serve as a space station lifeboat.

  • NASA Revives Voyager 2 Probe at Solar System's Edge

    Updated: 2010-05-31 16:31:34
    NASA engineers have revived the far-flung Voyager 2 probe on the fringe of the solar system after correcting a single incorrect computer bit in the spacecraft's memory that inexplicably went awry.

  • NASA Ousts Constellation Program Manager

    Updated: 2010-05-31 16:31:34
    Jeff Hanley, the top manager of NASA's Constellation program, has stepped down to become associate director for strategic capabilities at JSC.

  • Unidentified Object That Buzzed Earth is Space Junk, Not Asteroid, NASA Says

    Updated: 2010-05-31 16:31:34
    A mystery object called 2010 KQ that buzzed the Earth in May is actually a piece of space junk, and not an asteroid, NASA says.

  • Pale Blue Crescent: Earth Photographed from Deep Space

    Updated: 2010-05-31 16:31:34
    Two Japanese spacecraft have taken fantastic snapshots of Earth from deep space that reveal our planet in different hues amid a sea of stars.

  • FORUM: What Is It? The 2010 KQ Space Object Oddity

    Updated: 2010-05-31 16:31:34
    Interesting articles in our Community forum.

  • Bright galaxies like to stick together

    Updated: 2010-05-28 00:00:00
    The Herschel Space Observatory has been able to see thousands of galaxies and identify their locations, showing for the first time that they are packed closely together in the center of large galaxy clusters.

  • NASA spacecraft penetrates mysteries of martian ice cap

    Updated: 2010-05-28 00:00:00
    Layers of ice record a history of accumulation, erosion, and wind transport. From that, scientists can determine a history of climate that's more detailed than anybody expected.

  • Stellar shrapnel seen in aftermath of explosion

    Updated: 2010-05-27 00:00:00
    A new observation from the Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals evidence for a bullet-shaped object being blown out of a debris field left over from an exploded star.

  • NASA's Swift survey finds "smoking gun" of black hole activation

    Updated: 2010-05-27 00:00:00
    Galaxy mergers appear to feed black holes, causing them to give off as much as 10 billion times the Sun's energy.

  • Origin of Milky Way Clouds Revealed

    Updated: 2010-05-26 19:03:27
    Mysterious clouds of gas hovering above the plane of the Milky Way may be the fractured remnants of superbubbles blown by stellar winds and exploding stars. “There’s a fundamental, interesting connection between gas far away from the Milky Way and the amount of star formation below it in the galactic plane,” F. Jay Lockman of the [...]

  • New star-forming regions in Milky Way discovered

    Updated: 2010-05-26 00:00:00
    Scientists found concentrations of these regions at the end of the galaxy's central bar and in its spiral arms.

  • Astronomers discover clue to origin of Milky Way gas clouds

    Updated: 2010-05-26 00:00:00
    Astronomers conclude that these clouds have been blown away from the galaxy's plane by supernova explosions and the fierce winds from young stars in areas of intense star formation.

  • Supermassive black holes may frequently roam galaxy centers

    Updated: 2010-05-25 00:00:00
    The most likely cause for M87's supermassive black hole to be off center is a previous merger between two older, less massive ones.

  • Phoenix Mars Lander is silent as new image shows damage

    Updated: 2010-05-25 00:00:00
    The solar-powered lander completed its 3-month mission and kept working until sunlight waned 2 months later.

  • Nearby black hole is feeble and unpredictable

    Updated: 2010-05-25 00:00:00
    Andromeda's black hole is fainter in X-ray light than astronomers might expect given the reservoir of gas around it.

  • STEREO, SOHO spacecraft catch comet diving into the Sun

    Updated: 2010-05-25 00:00:00
    Sun-grazing comets, composed of dust, rock and ice, are seldom tracked close to the Sun because their brightness is overwhelmed by the solar disk.

  • Planetary Bullies Make Astronomers Rethink the Habitable Zone

    Updated: 2010-05-24 23:22:17
    Exoplanet orbits that seem just right for life could be bent out of shape by pushy neighbors. New simulations of extrasolar planetary systems may mean the definition of “habitable” planets needs to be completely overhauled. When astronomers talk about the “habitable zone,” they mean the shell around a star where the temperatures are right for liquid [...]

  • Weird orbits of neighbors can make 'habitable' planets not so habitable

    Updated: 2010-05-24 00:00:00
    A Jupiter-like planet's eccentric orbit could effect the orbit of an earthlike planet, possibly causing the smaller planet to cycle between habitable and uninhabitable conditions.

  • Out of whack planetary system offers clues to disturbed past

    Updated: 2010-05-24 00:00:00
    Scientists can no longer assume planets orbit their parent star in a single plane.

  • Helium pair has regular violent flare-ups

    Updated: 2010-05-24 00:00:00
    The stars are helium-rich white dwarfs, the compact remnants that are the end state of stars like our Sun.

  • WISE telescope has heart and soul

    Updated: 2010-05-24 00:00:00
    The new image demonstrates the power of the space telescope to capture vast regions such as the Heart and Soul nebulae.

  • Comets and Asteroids New Scientist

    Updated: 2010-04-08 12:04:31
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  • Space news and outer space articles from New Scientist New Scientist Space New Scientist

    Updated: 2010-04-08 12:04:25
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  • Astrobiology New Scientist

    Updated: 2010-04-08 12:04:06
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  • Browse the New Scientist Archive 2010 New Scientist

    Updated: 2010-04-08 12:03:56
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  • Space news and outer space articles from New Scientist New Scientist Space New Scientist

    Updated: 2010-04-08 12:03:53
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  • Saturn and its Moons New Scientist

    Updated: 2010-04-08 12:03:42
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    Updated: 2010-04-08 12:03:19
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    Updated: 2010-04-08 12:02:56
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  • Celestron celebrates 50 years in business

    Updated: 2010-01-06 00:00:00
    On September 17, 2009, editors will dedicate the magazine's observatory at Rancho Hidalgo, near Animas, New Mexico.

  • Astronomy magazine celebrates its new observatory

    Updated: 2009-09-14 00:00:00
    On September 17, 2009, editors will dedicate the magazine's observatory at Rancho Hidalgo, near Animas, New Mexico.

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