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Explore astronomy, from the latest trip to the International Space Station to alien planets outside our solar system.

  • Japan's Tohoku earthquake 'heard' from space

    Tue, Mar 12, 2013 12:15 PM by Becky Oskin, OurAmazingPlanet

    The quake was also powerful enough to slightly alter Earth's gravity field under Japan.

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  • Russian satellite hit by debris from Chinese space junk

    Tue, Mar 12, 2013 11:52 AM by Mike Wall, SPACE.com

    NASA estimates that a low-Earth orbit cloud contains 500,000 objects bigger than a marble and 22,000 larger than a softball.

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  • NASA to unveil new Mars discoveries today

    Tue, Mar 12, 2013 10:36 AM by Tariq Malik, SPACE.com

    NASA will present the results of the analysis of the Martian 'rock powder' collected by the Curiosity rover.

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  • How to see the moon and Comet Pan-STARRS tonight

    Tue, Mar 12, 2013 10:00 AM by Joe Rao, SPACE.com

    Comet Pan-STARRS and the moon should be visible for about half an hour before they disappear into the haze located near the horizon.

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  • 6 surprising facts about world's most powerful radio telescope

    Mon, Mar 11, 2013 11:18 AM by Clara Moskowitz, SPACE.com

    The $1.3 billion telescope array promises to reveal many new secrets of the cosmos.

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  • How to watch another asteroid flyby this weekend

    Fri, Mar 08, 2013 1:57 PM by Clara Moskowitz, SPACE.com

    The recent flurry of asteroid activity comes as discussion grows about a deflection system for near-Earth objects.

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  • Black hole in Milky Way prepares to gobble up space cloud

    Fri, Mar 08, 2013 11:52 AM by Clara Moskowitz, SPACE.com

    The cosmic spectacle should offer scientists a chance to test some of their theories about how black holes pull in mass.

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  • Milky Way's 'Methuselah' star looks older than the universe

    Thu, Mar 07, 2013 4:50 PM by Mike Wall, Space.com

    Research had estimated that the star is up to 16 billion years old, but that's a problem since the Big Bang occurred about 13.8 billion years ago.

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  • Scientists tweak distance to nearest galaxy

    Thu, Mar 07, 2013 12:13 PM by Clara Moskowitz, SPACE.com

    The finding was nearly a decade in the making, and required repeated precise measurements of rare pairs of binary stars.

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  • Year of the comets: 2013 may see brightest celestial show in years

    Thu, Mar 07, 2013 10:50 AM by Miriam Kramer, SPACE.com

    Comets ISON and Pan-STARRS should put on a show for stargazers in the Northern Hemisphere.

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  • NASA puts Mars rover Curiosity on standby after solar flare

    Thu, Mar 07, 2013 10:27 AM by Mike Wall, SPACE.com

    The rover team views the shutdown as merely a precaution, as Curiosity was designed to withstand such solar outbursts.

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  • NASA unpacks 'trunk' of SpaceX cargo hold

    Thu, Mar 07, 2013 10:03 AM by Miriam Kramer, SPACE.com

    The mission is SpaceX's second of 12 commercial cargo deliveries for NASA under a $1.6 billion agreement.

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  • Rare photos capture 2 comets together

    Wed, Mar 06, 2013 11:20 AM by Nina Sen, SPACE.com

    Stargazers have captured stunning photos of Comet Pan-STARRS and Lemmon together in the night sky.

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  • Big asteroid to zoom by Earth this weekend

    Wed, Mar 06, 2013 10:40 AM by Mike Wall, SPACE.com

    There is no danger that 2013 ET will hit Earth.

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  • NASA spacecraft makes 1st complete map of planet Mercury

    Wed, Mar 06, 2013 9:50 AM by Clara Moskowitz, Space.com

    The probe has been in orbit around Mercury since March 2011, and the spacecraft has finished mapping the planet's surface.

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