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Comet ISON is teasing the solar system as it dances with the sun and it's giving astronomers mixed signals.
For months, all eyes in the sky have pointed at the comet that's zooming toward a blisteringly close encounter with the…
The surface of the sun has been surprisingly calm of late - with fewer sunspots than anytime in the last century - prompting…
Astronomers call it the monster. It was the biggest and brightest cosmic explosion ever witnessed. Had it been closer, Earth…
A visiting comet could disintegrate when it runs a scorching gauntlet past the sun, treating star-gazers to a flashy spectacle…
The European Space Agency says one of its research satellites re-entered the Earth's atmosphere on an orbit that passed…
The European Space Agency says its GOCE research satellite will crash to Earth on Sunday night or during the day on Monday…
The Curse of Mars also applies to Asian countries, writes Gwynne Dyer. About two-thirds of the attempted missions to Mars…
India has launched its first spacecraft bound for Mars, a complex mission that it hopes will demonstrate and advance technologies…
The Milky Way galaxy is teeming with Earth-like planets that are not too hot and not too cold for liquid water to exist…
The remnants of a lost water world of rocks and oceans have been discovered by astronomers - who said they had found the…
Some prominent American astronomers are boycotting a meeting on exoplanets because Nasa has banned Chinese scientists from…
Japan successfully launched a new rocket Saturday that it hopes will be a cheaper and more efficient way of sending satellites…
"Mum, Dad, I'm moving to Mars." It's an awkward conversation most of us can't ever conceive having - but one that Aucklander…
NASA's Voyager 1 probe has left the solar system, boldly going where no machine has gone before.
Plastered across posters and T-shirts, inspiring a play, and named by a popular blog site as word of the year, "munted"…
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