• How Astronomy Lit Up the Solar System

    Updated: 2010-07-30 23:30:10
    Astronomy has come a long way in the 401 years since Galileo turned his first primitive telescope to the sky, so it's no surprise we see a very different solar system than the field's earliest pioneers.

  • Whole New Mercury Promised by NASA Spacecraft

    Updated: 2010-07-30 23:30:10
    A NASA spacecraft that has been studying Mercury, the innermost planet in our solar system, is about eight months away from achieving its main objective of entering the planet's orbit. But, after a series of flybys, the steadfast probe has already unlocked valuable information about the planet closest to our sun.

  • Mars Rover Opportunity Finally Sees Martian Dust Devil

    Updated: 2010-07-30 23:30:10
    After six-and-a-half years roaming the surface of Mars, a NASA rover has spotted its first dust devil on the red planet.

  • New Space Telescope Mirrors Get Frosty Treatment

    Updated: 2010-07-30 23:30:10
    NASA is putting the mirrors for its ambitious new James Webb Space Telescope through the ultimate cold test.

  • Giant Sand Dunes on Titan Shaped by Backward Winds

    Updated: 2010-07-30 23:30:10
    Gusty winds that blow in reverse of prevailing weather on Saturn's largest moon Titan appear to shape some of the moon's odd equatorial sand dunes, a new study finds.

  • NASA's Moon Program Slowdown Within the Law, Report Finds

    Updated: 2010-07-30 23:30:10
    NASA did not violate federal law or congressional guidance by taking actions that would prematurely kill the Constellation program, a new report says.

  • One Saturn Moon Blows Oxygen to Another

    Updated: 2010-07-30 23:30:10
    A comprehensive model of Saturn's magnetosphere and moons has revealed that the ringed planet's largest moon Titan gets its oxygen from the icy geysers on another. Icy geysers on Saturn's moon Enceladus send icy vapor into space, which breaks down and migrates to Titan's atmosphere.

  • Huge Star Burns Fast and Furious in Photo

    Updated: 2010-07-30 23:30:10
    A bright hot star with more than 70 times the mass of our sun will live fast and die young.

  • Rare Find: Failed Star Circling Sun-Like Star

    Updated: 2010-07-30 23:30:10
    A very young failed star, known as a brown dwarf, was discovered in a close orbit around a nearby, young sun-like star - in closer proximity to each other than most young brown dwarf and planetary companions that have been previously found by direct imaging, according to a new study.

  • Hunt for Life's Building Blocks in Space Gets NASA Boost

    Updated: 2010-07-30 23:30:10
    NASA did not violate federal law or congressional guidance by taking actions that would prematurely kill the Constellation program, a new report says.

  • IceCube spies unexplained pattern of cosmic rays

    Updated: 2010-07-30 00:00:00
    One possible explanation for the irregular pattern is the remains of an exploded supernova, such as the nearby supernova remnant Vela, whose location corresponds to one of the cosmic-ray hotspots.

  • Short Sharp Science Did planet hunter leak data about other Earths

    Updated: 2010-07-29 11:22:31
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  • Astronomers find planets in unusually intimate dance around dying star

    Updated: 2010-07-29 00:00:00
    Scientists have uncovered two pairs of planets so close to each other that they interact gravitationally.

  • Brilliant star in a colorful neighborhood

    Updated: 2010-07-28 00:00:00
    WR 22, a member of a double star system in the Carina Nebula, is shedding its atmosphere at a rate many millions times faster than our Sun.

  • James Webb Space Telescope completes cryogenic mirror test

    Updated: 2010-07-27 00:00:00
    The test gauges how the mirrors change temperature and shape over a range of operational temperatures in space.

  • Massive results for scientists homing in on Higgs boson

    Updated: 2010-07-27 00:00:00
    Scientists have significantly narrowed down the possible mass range of the elusive Higgs boson particle, predicted to exist by the standard model of particle physics.

  • Hyperfast star was booted from Milky Way

    Updated: 2010-07-26 00:00:00
    This is the first direct observation linking a high-flying star to a galactic center origin.

  • NASA's Odyssey spacecraft camera yields most accurate Mars map ever

    Updated: 2010-07-26 00:00:00
    The map was constructed using almost 21,000 images from the Thermal Emission Imaging System, a multiband infrared camera.

  • NASA telescope finds elusive buckyballs in space for first time

    Updated: 2010-07-23 00:00:00
    Buckyballs are the largest molecules known to exist in space.

  • Subaru telescope detects clues for understanding the origin of mysterious dark gamma-ray bursts

    Updated: 2010-07-23 00:00:00
    The results open the possibility that dark gamma-ray bursts may spring from high-metallicty environments.

  • Cassini sees moon building giant snowballs in Saturn ring

    Updated: 2010-07-22 00:00:00
    Prometheus' gravitational pull sloshes ring material around, creating wake channels that trigger the formation of objects as large as 12 miles in diameter.

  • Black hole jerked around twice

    Updated: 2010-07-22 00:00:00
    Either a merging of the two central black holes from the colliding galaxies or more gas falling onto the black hole caused the spin axis to jerk around to its present direction.

  • 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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  • Browse all Topic Guides New Scientist

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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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