• New Photo of Earth Taken From the Moon

    Updated: 2010-06-30 19:30:54
    An eye-catching new view of Earth has been caught on camera by an American spacecraft circling the moon.

  • New Tips to See Ancient Star Clusters With Telescopes

    Updated: 2010-06-30 19:30:54
    Early summer is a good time to search for ancient star clusters, known as globular clusters, in the night sky.

  • The Truth Behind Eclipses (Vampires Not Included)

    Updated: 2010-06-30 19:30:54
    The word "eclipse" means much more than the vampire and werewolf thriller set to hit theaters on Wednesday.

  • Stars Become Two-Faced When They Explode

    Updated: 2010-06-30 19:30:54
    Depending on the angle that astronomers view a supernova, it will look somewhat different, like two faces of the same coin.

  • First Direct Photo of Alien Planet Finally Confirmed

    Updated: 2010-06-30 19:30:54
    An alien planet that is only eight times the mass of Jupiter has been confirmed orbiting a sun-like star - over 300 times farther from the star than Earth is from the sun.

  • Space Shuttle Launch Seen From Jet Fighter

    Updated: 2010-06-30 19:30:54
    A stunning recent photo shows NASA space shuttle Atlantis launching on its final voyage as U.S. Air Force pilots watch from their airborne F-15E Strike Eagle jet fighter.

  • Southern Pinwheel Galaxy Shines In New Photo

    Updated: 2010-06-30 19:30:54
    A new photo taken by a NASA space telescope has revealed the brilliant southern pinwheel galaxy in a new light, though it�s a cosmic half-pint when compared to our own Milky Way.

  • Zapping Titan-like atmosphere with ultraviolet light creates life precursors

    Updated: 2010-06-30 00:00:00
    The results will help indicate what the next space missions should look for and what instruments should be developed to help in the search for conditions conducive to life.

  • Rocky mounds and a plateau on Mars

    Updated: 2010-06-29 00:00:00
    Mars Express was heading for the Magellan Crater when it found a windblown mesa and mysterious stony hills nearby.

  • Astronomers making good time: Correcting for rotational instabilities of pulsars, the most precise clocks in the universe

    Updated: 2010-06-28 00:00:00
    This new understanding of pulsar spin-down could improve the chances to use the fastest spinning pulsars in order to make the first direct detection of ripples, known as gravitational waves, in the fabric of space-time.

  • Unraveling the mystery of Hanny's Voorwerp: astronomers peer into the depths of IC 2497

    Updated: 2010-06-28 00:00:00
    Scientists find both vigorous star formation and active galactic nucleus radio activity in the same system and on similar scales.

  • Giant, Tilted Exoplanets Like It Hot

    Updated: 2010-06-25 19:30:41
    Giant planets with wonky orbits mostly circle blistering-hot stars, two new studies find. This pattern could explain why some “hot Jupiters” — planets from a third to 12 times the mass of Jupiter that sit scorchingly close to their stars — orbit the way their star spins, while others tilt so far that they orbit [...]

  • Galaxy encounter fires up quasar

    Updated: 2010-06-25 00:00:00
    Scientists observe a giant nebula of ionized gas associated with the quasar as well as signs of interaction with a nearby galaxy.

  • New clues suggest wet era on early Mars was global

    Updated: 2010-06-25 00:00:00
    Scientists report that some large craters penetrating younger, overlying rocks in the northern lowlands expose similar mineral clues to ancient wet conditions as in the southern highlands.

  • Was Venus once a habitable planet?

    Updated: 2010-06-24 00:00:00
    Thanks to the European Space Agency's Venus Express orbiter, planetary scientists are seeing similarities between Earth and Venus.

  • The Very Large Telescope detects first superstorm on exoplanet

    Updated: 2010-06-23 00:00:00
    The observations also allow another exciting "first" — measuring the orbital speed of the exoplanet itself.

  • Super-complex organic molecules found in interstellar space

    Updated: 2010-06-22 00:00:00
    The discovery of anthracene could help resolve a decades-old astrophysical mystery concerning the production of organic molecules in space.

  • Fossil evidence casts doubt on Younger Dryas impact theory

    Updated: 2010-06-21 00:00:00
    Whereas proponents of the theory have offered "carbonaceous spherules" and nanodiamonds, both of which they claimed were formed by intense heat as evidence of the impact, a new study concludes that those supposed clues are nothing more than fossilized balls of fungus, charcoal, and fecal pellets.

  • Scientists get a look at the birth of the Milky Way

    Updated: 2010-06-21 00:00:00
    The giant gas cloud from which the Milky Way formed had to evolve from an overall smooth structure into a clumpy object in less than a few hundred million years.

  • 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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  • Space news and outer space articles from New Scientist New Scientist Space New Scientist

    Updated: 2010-04-08 12:03:19
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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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