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Blue moon of August 31, 2012, viewed from Slobozia, Romania. Image via Wikipedia.

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First blue moon since 2012 will be visible on Friday

The sweep of NASA Kepler mission’s search for small, habitable planets in the last six years. The first planet smaller than Earth, Kepler-20e, was discovered in December 2011 orbiting a Sun-like star slightly cooler and smaller than our sun every six days. But it is scorching hot and unable to maintain an atmosphere or a liquid water ocean. Kepler-22b was announced in the same month, as the first planet in the habitable zone of a sun-like star, but is more than twice the size of Earth and therefore unlikely to have a solid surface. Kepler-186f was discovered in April 2014 and is the first Earth-size planet found in the habitable zone of a small, cool M dwarf about half the size and mass of our sun. Kepler-452b is the first near-Earth-Size planet in the habitable zone of a star very similar to the sun.
Credits: NASA Ames/W. Stenzel

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NASA’s exciting announcement: They’ve discovered an Earth-like planet in the habitable zone

Image via NASA.

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Pluto had its moment – now Charon, Pluto’s Moon is in the spotlight

Members of the New Horizons science team react to seeing the spacecraft's last and sharpest image of Pluto before closest approach later in the day, Tuesday, July 14, 2015 at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland.
Credits: NASA/Bill Ingalls

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New Horizons Phones Back After Pluto Flyby

This is the best photo of Pluto we have. Thank you, NASA!

Astronomy

New Horizons and Pluto: Everything You Wanted to Know

A montage of images showing an artist's concept of NuSTAR (top); a color image of one of the galaxies targeted by NuSTAR (lower left); and artist's concept of a hidden black hole.
Credits: Top: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Lower-left: Hubble Legacy Archive, NASA, ESA. Bottom-right: NASA/ESA

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Millions of supermassive black holes are hiding under thick blankets of dust and gas

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Lucky shot: Photographer catches space station racing past the moon

View of Jupiter and Venus in the evening sky after sunset at around 11pm on 20 June 2015. On this night the crescent Moon lies just below Jupiter. To the right of Venus, using binoculars, may just be seen Praesepe, the famous "Beehive" star cluster, though this will be a difficult object in the twilight and at such a low altitude. The bright star to the left of Jupiter is known as Regulus, the principal star of the constellation Leo, though it is actually a multiple stellar system.

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Stargazers delight: Jupiter and Venus get up close and personal

Astronomy

Tomorrow, the world is getting one extra second – what are you gonna do with yours?

Astronomy

Alien pyramid on Ceres? More like bad media on Earth

A light echo in X-rays detected by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has provided a rare opportunity to precisely measure the distance to an object on the other side of the Milky Way galaxy. The rings exceed the field-of-view of Chandra’s detectors, resulting in a partial image of X-ray data.
Credits: NASA/CXC/U. Wisconsin/S. Heinz

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Strange “X-Ray Rainbow” could be used to calculate stellar distances

Artist impression of Saturn seen from Titan. Image: NASA JPL

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Lakes on Titan might have formed like sinkholes on Earth

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Astronomers discover massive ultra-dark galaxies – might be filled with dark matter

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World’s largest telescope to begin construction soon following $500 million funding

Image via The Planets.

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Pluto’s moons resonate in chaos

Realistic-color Galileo mosaic of Europa, highlighting the mysterious lines. Image via Wikipedia.

Alien life

NASA presents toolkit to search for life on Jupiter’s Moon Europa

It's like winning the lottery - twice. Astronomers have spotted a rare cluster of four quasars—some of the brightest objects in the universe, formed from active black holes. Photograph by Hennawy and Arrigoni Battaia, MPIA.

Astronomy

Scientists discover extremely rare quadruple quasar system

PSR J1930-1852. Image credit: J. K. Swiggum et al.

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High school students help astronomers discover spectacular pulsar

An image charge with symbolism: the search for life beyond our solar system requires unprecedented cooperation across scientific disciplines. NASA's NExSS collaboration includes those who study Earth as a life-bearing planet (lower right), those researching the diversity of solar system planets (left), and those on the new frontier, discovering worlds orbiting other stars in the galaxy (upper right).
Credits: NASA

Alien life

NASA officially starts program to look for alien life

Infrared images suggest that Spot 1 (top row), an area on Ceres, is made of ice. But the pair of bright gleams known as Spot 5 were invisible to an infrared camera (bottom right). Image credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/ASI/INAF

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Dwarf Planet Ceres reveals its colors, but keeps its secrets

Mars may have many non-polar glaciers.

Astronomy

Mars has giant belts of glaciers, Danish researchers claim

Alien life

NASA: we’ll find alien life in 10-20 years

Solar flare. Image via Wikipedia.

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Scientists find the sound of stars

Image via Xinhua.

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Chinese Lunar Rover Reveals Secrets from The Dark Side of the Moon

Artistic representation of a dwarf galaxy. Image via Stanford University.

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Gamma Ray Signal Might Help Scientists Zoom in on Dark Matter

This artist's conception shows the 30 Ari system, which includes four stars and a planet.
Image Credit: Karen Teramura, UH IfA

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Planet discovered in four-star solar system

The powerful gravity of a galaxy embedded in a massive cluster of galaxies in this Hubble Space Telescope image is producing multiple images of a single distant supernova far behind it. Both the galaxy and the galaxy cluster are acting like a giant cosmic lens, bending and magnifying light from the supernova behind them, an effect called gravitational lensing. Image via NASA.

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Exploding supernova observed in four different images

This spectacular view from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the rich galaxy cluster Abell 1689, which acted like a gravitational lens. Image credits: NASA.

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An old looking galaxy found in a young Universe

This is an artist's impression of a quasar with a supermassive black hole in the distant universe. Credit: Zhaoyu Li/NASA/JPL-Caltech/Misti Mountain Observatory

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Newly discovered ancient Black hole is monstrously big for its age

February 25, 2015

Dust storms on the Martian surface usually produce low-altitude plumes. Image via JPL/NASA.

Astronomy

Strange, Unexplainable Clouds Hover over Mars

February 16, 2015

Alien life

NASA Wants Mission to Search for Life on Jupiter’s Moon

February 3, 2015

Image: Ron Miller

Astronomy

Newly Discovered ‘Super-Saturn’ Has Colossal Ring System

January 27, 2015

Our galaxy might be a huge wormhole, new research indicates. Image credits: Davide and Paolo Salucci

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Our Galaxy Might Be a Huge Wormhole

January 22, 2015

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Scientists Observe Giant Burst of Radio Waves

January 19, 2015

This view from the wide-angle Hazard Avoidance Camera on the front of NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover shows the rover's drill in position for a mini-drill test to assess whether a rock target called "Mojave" is appropriate for full-depth drilling to collect a sample. It was taken on Jan. 13, 2015.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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Crystal-Rich Rock ‘Mojave’ is Next Mars Drill Target

January 16, 2015

Above: How heat is distributed on a spinning planet versus a rotationally locked one. Image via Popular Mechanics.

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New Study Suddenly Makes Billions of Exoplanets Habitable

January 16, 2015

Rosetta's extremely interesting analysis raises even more questions than it answers. Image via ESA.

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Water didn’t come from comets, Rosetta analysis shows

December 11, 2014

Artistic depiction of a pulsar and the emitted radiation. Image via National Radio Astronomy Observatory.

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Pulsars with black holes could hold the ‘holy grail’ of gravity

December 5, 2014

The Philae lander found organic molecules on the surface of a comet.

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Organic molecules found on comet

November 18, 2014

his artist's impression shows the dust and gas around the double star system GG Tauri-A. Credit: ESO/L.Calçada

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A ‘Ying Yang’ binary system that can sustain Planetary Formation

October 30, 2014

Artist impression of a dwarf star 'feeding' on donor star. Credit: David A. Hardy / astroart.org

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Nova seen Expanding right from the Beginning for the First Time

October 28, 2014 - Updated on July 25, 2023

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Mind-Blowing $1.4 billion Thirty Meter Telescope begins construction in Hawaii

October 14, 2014

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Astronomy Photographer of Year: 2014 winning entries

September 23, 2014

The Laniakea Supercluster shown its equatorial plane. Image: CEA/Saclay, France

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Astronomers map the Supercluster the Milky Way belongs to

September 4, 2014

Artistic representation of the ESA.

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ESA’s billion-star surveyor, Gaia, ready to begin its science mission

Alien life

101 Dalmatians ?! Probe counts and maps the geysers on Enceladus

Astronomy

When Galaxies Collide: Triple Black Hole System Discovered

Alien life

Scientist Interviews: Marie-Eve Naud [Astrobiology]

June 25, 2014 - Updated on June 26, 2014

Titan Ligeia Mare.

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Never before seen “magic island” pops up on Saturn’s Moon Titan

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Oldest known potentially habitable exoplanet discovered just 13 lightyears away

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