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Mars In Your Window
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 - Anuradha Menon
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope snapped this picture of Mars within a day of its closest approach to Earth. A large regional...

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Stars take 'Wild Rides' Around the Milky Way

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009 - 10:42:24 - Anuradha Menon

Astronomers announced today that stars of a recently discovered type, dubbed ultracool subdwarfs, take some pretty wild rides as they orbit around...

Earth's Clearest Skies Revealed

Sunday, June 7th, 2009 - 19:38:56 - Ehud Rattner

Possibly the clearest skies on Earth have been found - but to exploit them, astronomers will have to set up a telescope in one of the planet's...

New Sensors to Test Inflationary Universe Theory
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009 - Janice Karin
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has teamed up with Princeton University, the University of...

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Planet-Hunting Method Finally Succeeds

Friday, May 29th, 2009 - 16:11:05 - Anuradha Menon

A long-proposed tool for hunting planets has netted its first catch -- a Jupiter-like planet orbiting one of the smallest stars known. The technique...

Astronauts Let Hubble Go

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009 - 16:39:40 - Anuradha Menon

Practicing a kind of catch-and-release astronomy, the astronauts of the space shuttle Atlantis oh-so-gently let the Hubble Space Telescope slip back...

Europeans Launch Space Telescope Duo

Friday, May 15th, 2009 - 10:05:07 - Anuradha Menon

Two European telescopes aimed at pushing astronomy's frontier closer to the big bang were successfully launched on their space odyssey on Thursday...

Why Isn't Pluto a Planet Any More
Sunday, May 3rd, 2009 - Sarah Gingichashvili
Pluto is the second-largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System (after Eris) and the tenth-largest body observed directly...