Hurricanes, Transporters and Grand Openings: Busy Week for Retired Space Shuttles

By Nancy Atkinson - November 05, 2012 02:08 PM UTC | Space Exploration

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SpaceX's 10-Story Re-useable Grasshopper Rocket Takes a Bigger Hop

By Nancy Atkinson - November 04, 2012 11:16 PM UTC | Space Exploration

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You Need Just the Right Amount of Killer Asteroids to Promote Complex Life

By Fraser Cain - November 02, 2012 09:06 PM UTC | Astrobiology

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Rare Supernova Pair are Most Distant Ever

By Nancy Atkinson - November 02, 2012 03:46 PM UTC | Extragalactic

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Huge New ESA Tracking Station is Ready for Duty

By jwinder - November 02, 2012 02:27 PM UTC | Missions

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The Curiosity Rover's Ultimate Self-Portrait

By Nancy Atkinson - November 02, 2012 02:06 AM UTC | Planetary Science

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Timelapse of Hurricane Sandy, Satellite Views October 23-31, 2012

By Nancy Atkinson - November 02, 2012 12:20 AM UTC | Planetary Science

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Could Plasma Jet Thrusters Kickstart Interplanetary Travel?

By Nancy Atkinson - November 01, 2012 08:04 PM UTC | Space Exploration

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Fermi Measures Light from All the Stars That Have Ever Existed

By Nancy Atkinson - November 01, 2012 07:28 PM UTC | Cosmology

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Curiosity Rover Takes an Incredible Self-Portrait

By Nancy Atkinson - October 31, 2012 07:48 PM UTC | Planetary Science

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Vesta Looks Forever Young

By Nancy Atkinson - October 31, 2012 07:27 PM UTC | Planetary Science

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Minute Physics: Why E=mc² is Incomplete

By Nancy Atkinson - October 31, 2012 07:09 PM UTC | Physics

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Notes from an Amateur Telescope Maker's Journal, Part 2

By aqua - October 31, 2012 06:24 PM UTC | Telescopes

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Zoom Zoom! Progress Ship Goes from Launch to Docking in 6 Hours

By Nancy Atkinson - October 31, 2012 04:30 PM UTC | Space Exploration

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Beautiful Star Cluster Looks Surprisingly Youthful

By Nancy Atkinson - October 31, 2012 02:46 PM UTC | Stars

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Curiosity Rover Makes First X-Ray Analysis of Martian Soil

By Nancy Atkinson - October 31, 2012 03:59 AM UTC | Planetary Science

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From Eternity to Here: The Amazing Origin of our Species (in 90 Seconds)

By jmajor - October 31, 2012 03:51 AM UTC | Astrobiology

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Astrophoto: Spooky Fingers Reach Out into Space

By Nancy Atkinson - October 30, 2012 04:16 PM UTC | Observing

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Space-O-Lanterns: 7 Minutes of Terror/Dragon Edition

By Nancy Atkinson - October 30, 2012 02:01 PM UTC | Site News

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Satellites Provide 3-D Views and More of Hurricane Sandy

By Nancy Atkinson - October 30, 2012 04:00 AM UTC | Planetary Science

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Virtual Star Party - Oct. 28, 2012: Hurricane Sandy Edition

By Fraser Cain - October 30, 2012 12:07 AM UTC | Observing

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Video: Hurricane Sandy Seen by Space Station Astronauts

By Nancy Atkinson - October 29, 2012 05:52 PM UTC | Planetary Science

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Astronomers Uncover a Crime of Galactic Proportions

By Nancy Atkinson - October 29, 2012 05:23 PM UTC | Milky Way

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Could the Next Planetary Rover Come from Canada?

By Evan Gough - October 29, 2012 02:22 PM UTC | Planetary Science

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Astrophoto: Just in Time for Halloween: Orion's Bloody Massacre

By Nancy Atkinson - October 29, 2012 01:26 PM UTC | Observing

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Incredible Video of Sandy's Swirling Progression

By jmajor - October 29, 2012 03:15 AM UTC | Planetary Science

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Timelapse: Dragon's Departure from the ISS

By Nancy Atkinson - October 29, 2012 02:38 AM UTC | Space Exploration

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SpaceX's Dragon Splashes Down Safely

By Nancy Atkinson - October 29, 2012 02:26 AM UTC | Space Exploration

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Weekly SkyWatcher's Forecast: October 29 - November 4, 2012

By tammy-plotner - October 28, 2012 07:13 PM UTC | Observing

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Hurricane Sandy Barreling to Eastern Seaboard Menacing Millions

By ken-kremer - October 28, 2012 06:35 PM UTC | Planetary Science

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NASA Satellite Sees Ghostly Remains of Vanishing Arctic Sea Ice

By jmajor - October 28, 2012 06:05 PM UTC | Planetary Science

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Astrophoto: Polaris and Circumpolar Rotation in 30 Minutes

By Nancy Atkinson - October 26, 2012 12:37 PM UTC | Observing

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Deflecting Incoming Asteroids with Paintballs

By Nancy Atkinson - October 26, 2012 11:48 AM UTC | Planetary Science

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On Again, Off Again Exoplanet Fomalhaut b is Back from the Dead

By Nancy Atkinson - October 26, 2012 03:14 AM UTC | Exoplanets

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Stirred, Not Shaken. Black Hole Antics Puff Up Whopper of a Galaxy

By john-williams - October 26, 2012 12:06 AM UTC | Extragalactic

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Giant "Invisible" Vortex Still Remains on Saturn Following Huge Storm

By Nancy Atkinson - October 25, 2012 10:21 PM UTC | Planetary Science

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Satellite Views: Will Hurricane Sandy Turn into 'Frankenstorm'?

By Nancy Atkinson - October 25, 2012 09:00 PM UTC | Planetary Science

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New Updates for our Mobile App: Phases of the Moon

By Fraser Cain - October 25, 2012 08:01 PM UTC | Site News

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Exploded Rocket Fragments Could Endanger ISS and Future Missions

By jmajor - October 25, 2012 03:25 PM UTC | Space Exploration

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Soyuz Docks to Space Station with New Crew and 32 Fish

By Nancy Atkinson - October 25, 2012 02:08 PM UTC | Space Exploration

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Here's Your Chance to Scream in Space

By Nancy Atkinson - October 25, 2012 01:41 PM UTC | Space Exploration

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Astronomers Find Ultimate Oxymoron: A Small Supermassive Black Hole

By Nancy Atkinson - October 24, 2012 09:17 PM UTC | Black Holes

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Dark Matter Halos May Contain Stars

By Nancy Atkinson - October 24, 2012 06:32 PM UTC | Cosmology

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Zoom Through 84 Million Stars in Gigantic New 9-Gigapixel Image

By Nancy Atkinson - October 24, 2012 12:32 PM UTC | Milky Way

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Incredible Astrophoto Mosaic: Via Láctea in Alentejo

By Nancy Atkinson - October 24, 2012 01:08 AM UTC | Milky Way

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Carnival of Space #272

By Nancy Atkinson - October 24, 2012 12:25 AM UTC | Site News

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Ancient Quasar Shines Brightly, But All the Galaxy's Stars Are Missing

By Nancy Atkinson - October 23, 2012 10:10 PM UTC | Extragalactic

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Disco Sun: X-Class Flare Creates Strobe-Light Effect

By Nancy Atkinson - October 23, 2012 04:20 PM UTC | Solar Astronomy

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Cheops - A Little Satellite with Big Ideas

By jwinder - October 23, 2012 12:07 PM UTC | Missions

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Soyuz Launches New Crew to Space Station

By Nancy Atkinson - October 23, 2012 11:51 AM UTC | Space Exploration

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