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Astronomers find an unusual new denizen of the solar system.
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- The winding Milky Way
- Source of jets found on Enceladus
- Martian dust imaged
- Puzzle of meteorite-asteroid link solved
- Cassini transmits data home from Enceladus
- The Great Planet Debate
- The Great Planet Debate
- Soil studies continue for Phoenix
- Soil studies continue for Phoenix
- Cassini swoops by Enceladus
- Hubble unveils image of NGC 2074
- A new spectrometer for planetary exploration
- Schoolteacher discovers ‘cosmic ghost’
- Start-up date for LHC announced
- NASA awards radiobiology research grants
- Globular clusters tell tale of star formation
- Water found on Mars
- Solar eclipse images
- NASA confirms liquid lake on Saturn moon
- NASA tests Moon-imaging spacecraft at Goddard
- Evidence of dark energy found
- Phoenix continues trying to collect soil
- Barred spiral galaxies are latecomers
- Phoenix’s new method for collecting icy samples
- New exoplanet found
- The secrets of the Northern Lights
- The secrets of the northern lights
- Phoenix’s next soil sample
- The quiet explosion
- The quiet explosion
- Magnetic fields stronger than expected
- Image shows ‘no organics’ zone around Pinwheel
- Phoenix works through the night
- The 2008 total solar eclipse
- Fourth dwarf planet named Makemake
- Team uses gravitational lenses to weigh 70 galaxies
- The star that got away
- Finding the weight of black holes
- A rendezvous with Phobos
- Brightest star in the galaxy has competition
- The Red Planet’s wet past
- Phoenix looks for ice-rich soil
- Novel astronomical instrumentation for the Gemini telescopes
- Rare star-making galaxy found
- Age of mystery star cluster unknown
- Phoenix continues sample-collection tests
- Phoenix’s falling heat shield
- Jupiter-sized exoplanet estimate
- Sunlight makes asteroids binary system
- Future space exploration
- Phoenix delivers soil-chemistry sample
- Rosetta awakes from hibernation
- Phoenix to bake ice-rich soil next week
- Einstein gives a thumbs-up
- New approach to very-high-resolution astronomical imaging
- First images of outer solar system made
- Herschel under test
- Hubble sees celestial fireworks
- New 2-year mission for Cassini
- Goddard’s new instrument approved
- Phoenix returns treasure trove for science
- Cluster listens to the sounds of Earth
- Phoenix puts soil in chemistry lab
- Gemini sees twin galaxies in embrace
- Final checks on lunar satellite
- Massive asteroid impact on Mars
- Huge lenses to observe cosmic dark energy
- Radio telescopes reveal unseen galactic cannibalism
- Ice on Mars
- Hawaii lavas yield fingerprint of planetary formation
- Earth’s laws still apply in distant universe
- Newly born twin stars show surprising differences
- Phoenix makes first trench in science reserve
- Hungry, hungry black holes
- Mission to Mars
- NASA tests lunar robots and spacesuits on earthly moonscape
- Radar generates high-resolution topographic map of the Moon
- A trio of super-Earths
- NASA finds new type of comet dust mineral
- Phoenix’s oven is full
- Students prepare for dust up
- GLAST successfully launches
- Pluto-like objects now called Plutoids
- Radio astronomers catch a glimpse of an astrophysical jet
- Phoenix tests a sprinkle technique
- Hubble images detail galactic “mergers and acquisitions”
- Black holes stop star formation
- Astronomers update our galaxy’s structure
- Infrared surveys reveal the Milky Way as never before
- Super-luminous supernovae
- Winding spiral arms reveal black hole mass
- Small planet, small star
- Famous supernovae still echo across the Milky Way
- Famous supernovae still echo across the Milky Way
- Mars lander gets instruments ready for operation
- Solving mysteries about the birth and growth of our galaxy
- Strange ring circles dead star
- Astronomer discovers record-breaking asteroid
- Listen to Phoenix descend
- New measurements reveal a slimmer Milky Way
- Huge star has thick belt
- Touchdown!
- Mars rover finds Yellowstone-like hot spring deposits
- New red spot appears on Jupiter
- Supernova witnessed at explosion
- Astronomers find missing matter
- Look quick to spy a bright comet
- Phoenix lander to touch down on Mars
- New camera sees first light
- Mars’ cold insides
- Dust dimming our universe
- Venus Express finds hydroxyl on Venus
- Physicists show how information escapes from black holes
- Weird stellar pair puzzles scientists
- Phoenix mission ready to land on Mars
- Astronomers find youngest supernova remnant in the Milky Way
- Microsoft’s WorldWide Telescope delivers the universe
- National Astronomy Day 2008
- Antennae Galaxies move closer
- Reshaping light using aspheric optics for direct imaging of exoplanets
- Iron ’snow’ helps maintain Mercury’s magnetic field
- Satellite captures cyclone damage
- Chasing the green flash
- A cosmic spider web is unraveled
- Sidney van den Bergh wins Catherine Wolfe Bruce Gold Medal
- Fly through the ionosphere in “4-D”
- Spacecraft to the Sun
- An efficient facility spectrometer for the European extremely large telescope
- Spot elusive Mercury
- Stellar ticking time bomb explodes on cue
- Saturn’s stormy weather
- Astronomy magazine announces annual $2,500 award
- Biologically inspired computation for intelligent autonomous exploration
- Black hole expelled from its parent galaxy
- Shawdows and dust
- Shadows and dust
- Will meteors from Halley’s comet surge?
- Small galaxies pack a pig punch
- Small galaxies pack a big punch
- Globular clusters still developing
- Polarized auroras
- Polarized aurora
- Ion beam figuring for precision optics
- Galaxies gone wild
- Preparing to launch
- Inside blazars
- GLOBE at Night 2008 results a solid step toward IYA 2009
- Losing our Arctic ice
- Advances in ray-tracing techniques for multiple-aperture telescopes
- Command of ISS changed
- Mission to the Moon
- Stellar birth in the galactic wilderness
- Black hole sheds light on galaxy
- Cassini receives extension
- Diving into Jupiter’s northern lights
- Milky Way’s black hole wakes up
- Planet-harboring star drifted from the Hyades
- Spacecraft fine tunes course for Mars landing
- A new nova in Cygnus
- Distant GRB imaged
- New image of Phobos
- Brown dwarf is coldest know stellar object
- Spitzer sees shining stellar sphere
- Brown dwarf is coldest known stellar object
- Close encounters of three black holes
- New planet found in Leo
- Finding Earth-like worlds
- Finding earthlike worlds
- Volcanos on Venus
- Cosmic engines surprise XMM-Newton
- Volcanoes on Venus
- Witnessing the formation of distant galaxies
- ATV Jules Verne docks
- Youngest forming planet discovered
- Source of solar wind
- The Moon’s stellar companion
- Gamma-ray burst detected
- Smallest black hole found
- Two new star systems found
- Ares test roll along
- Looking for life
- Lessons for the future on asteroid’s surface
- Enceladus more active than thought
- Endeavour crew homeward bound
- New organic molecule in space
- Space rocks from the beginning
- Action replay of powerful stellar explosion
- Jules Verne reaches parking orbit
- New place to seek life on Mars
- Searching for water on Titan
- Extra-terrestrial resource use is key to human expansion through the cosmos
- 2008 National Dark-Sky Week
- Methane detected on extrasolar planet
- Lightweight optical telescope structures built from plastic composites
- Water and planet formation
- Investigating the Red Planet’s volcanic past
- A space garden?
- Life soup
- A puzzling storm
- Cassini’s daring flyby of Enceladus
- New spacecraft for NASA
- One day down, 11 more to go
- A Peruvian mystery
- The Mercury you’ve never seen
- Endeavour on its way
- Neighbor may harbor earthlike neighbor
- Cassini to get up close and personal Enceladus
- Up close and personal with Enceladus
- The search for life on Mars
- Saturn’s moon sports dusty halo
- First binocular light images
- Mars and Venus are surprisingly similar
- Spring is aurora season
- New materials advance gamma-ray telescopes
- Avalanches on Mars
- Water found flowing on Mars?
- Preparing for Phoenix
- Water not flowing on Mars
- Moon truck concept
- Rugged terrain found near Moon’s south pole
- New theory of star formation
- A lifetime in optics: A video interview with Robert Edmund
- The search for dark matter
- Double-sided silicon strip detector for x-ray imaging
- New theory sheds light on space enigma
- Ulysses mission coming to a natural end
- Testing light suppression for the New Worlds Observer mission
- The light and dark of Venus
- Saturn rules the night
- U.S. successfully destroys satellite
- A star with an attitude
- A knock on the space door
- Welcome home, Atlantis!
- Galaxies found around galaxies
- Terrestrial bodies
- Follow the water
- Next generation missions
- Intelligent systems for the autonomous exploration of Titan and Enceladus
- Microshutter arrays will paint the picture of the early universe
- Real-time space radiation forecasting in place
- Gas from Saturn’s largest moon
- First near-Earth triple asteroid found
- Chasing exoplanets with the help of a chessboard and Pascal’s triangle
- Sun-like star flips its magnetic field
- New Hubble images reveal galaxy
- Enceladus’ geyser findings
- Light echoes reveal the distance to a star
- The search for exosolar planets
- Name that satellite!
- Lunar eclipse visible for North America
- Space shuttle Atlantis launches Thursday
- Space shuttle Atlantis launched Thursday
- Isolated galaxy or corporate merger?
- White dwarfs too close to the edge
- âStarshadesâ for exoplanet detection and characterization
- New light on dark energy
- The growing-up of a star
- Dust-devil tracks on Mars
- Darkness over Antarctica
- Venus meets Jupiter February 1
- Speeding star
- Nova surprise
- A theory of everything
- Mercury surprises from MESSENGER
- NASA scientists get first images of Earth flyby asteroid
- Old galaxies discovered
- Life-forming amino acids found
- Milky Way mystery possibly solved
- Extra-solar planet found
- More to neutron stars and black holes
- Venus meets Jupiter
- Hubble finds saucer-shaped galaxies
- Europe’s Mercury mission swings into action
- An image slicer spectrograph for the SNAP mission
- Cosmic mid-life crisis
- Astronomy beneficial to Arizona
- The new solar cycle starts with a bang
- New information on galaxies
- Planets: The next generation
- Black-hole light show
- Spinning-black-holes survey
- Galaxy with winding arms
- Celestial orchestra
- Caught in the cosmic-matter web
- WD5-Mars collision effectively ruled out
- Giant black holes roam Milky Way
- MESSENGER’s flies by Mercury today
- Cosmic cloud races toward Milky Way
- Sloan Digital Sky Survey extended to 2014
- Hubble finds double Einstein ring
- Centaurus A exposed
- Dark matter found in accretion disks
- MESSENGER at Mercury
- Earth: A borderline planet for life?
- When worlds collide
- Opening up the infrared sky
- Stars from the middle of nowhere
- NASA and Gemini probe mysterious explosion
- Image catches Pickering’s Triangle
- NASA releases Hubble repair plans
- Saturn’s hot spots
- Asteroid may hit Mars next month
- Building the world’s largest optical solar telescope
- Hyperspectral imaging at the speed of light
- Method identifies blazar candidates
- Polarimetry in the mid-infrared: new vistas for SOFIA, NASA’s airborne observatory
- High redshift x-ray galaxy clusters