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Solar Systems Like Ours Are Likely To Be Rare
Comet Unexpectedly Brightens a Millionfold
Adaptive Thirty Meter Telescope Sees Progress
Entry-Level Astronomy?
Rare Lone Neutron Star Found Nearby
Arecibo Observatory Loses Funding
Scientist Calls Mars a Terraforming Target
Trio of Super-Earths Discovered
200,000 Elliptical Galaxies Point the Same Way
A Telescope as Big as the Earth
Brian May, Rock Legend, Publishes His Thesis
Google Earth Gets Star-Gazing Add On
New Study Shows Solar System Is Uncommon
Object Defies Categorization As Planet or Star
Sharpest Images With "Lucky" Telescope
World's Largest Telescope Up and Running
A Symmetrical Cosmic Red Square
Astronomer Discovers the Most Distant Stars Ever Observed From Earth
Computer Model Points To the Missing Matter
Galactic Traffic Patterns
Galaxy Zoo Produces a Rare Specimen
Hubble Survey Finds Half of the Missing Matter
Huge Balloon Lofts New Telescope
Intergalactic Missing Mass Missing Again
Matter Discovered Traveling at Near Light Speed
Spitzer's 5-Gigapixel Milky Way
Stars Could Shine In Many Universes
Study Concludes "Planet" Was Just Stellar Spots
Supernova Birth Observed From Orbiting Telescope
The Astronomical Event Search Engine
The Sun Has First Spotless Month Since 1913
Ancient Star Found, Estimated at 13.2 Billion Years Old
Astronomers Claim Discovery of Earth-like Planet
Astronomers Witness Whopper Galaxy Collision
Australian Astronomers Make Interstellar Hologram
Bill Gates and Microsoft Fund Telescope
Deep Impact Probe to Look for Earth-sized Planets
ESA Selects Next Generation Space Missions
Earth's Moon is a Rarity
Liquid Lakes On Saturn's Moon Confirmed
Moon May Have Once Had Water
NASA Confirms Solar Storm Near 2012
NASA Wants Fast Moonbuggies and Solid Lunar Lander
Opportunity Takes a Dip Into Victoria Crater
Phoenix Mars Lander To Begin Rasping Ice Shavings
Robotic Telescope Installed on Antarctica Plateau
Saturn's Moons Harboring Water?
Steven Hawking Considering Move To Canada
The Device NASA Is Leaving Behind
The Universe Damaged By Observation?
Voyager 2 Set to Reach Termination Shock
Why the LHC Won't Destroy the World
Youngest Planet Discovered
Virtual Telescope Zooms In On Milky Way Black Hole
"All Quiet Alert" Issued For the Sun
"Perfect" Mirrors Cast For LSST
Anomalous Pulsar In Binary System Stymies Theorists
Astronomers Announce 5-Planet System
Astronomers Discover New Class of Pulsating Star
Black Hole Information Loss Paradox Solution Proposed
Brightest Comet In Decades Now Visible
Computer Forensics to Help Solve Pioneer Mystery
Dark Matter Stars in the Early Universe?
Details Emerging On Tunguska Impact Crater
Doughnut-Shaped Universe Back In the Race
Earth May Once Have Had Multiple Moons
Earthlike Planet Orbiting Nearby Star
Einstein's Theory Passes Strict New Test
Eta Carinae, Soon To Be a Local Supernova
Final Repair Mission To Extend Hubble's Life
First Images From 50-km Enceladus Flyby
First Images of Solar System's Invisible Frontier
First Oort Cloud Object May Have Been Discovered
Gravity Tractor Could Deflect Asteroids
How NASA Prepares To Rescue Hubble, In Photos
How NASA Will Bomb the Moon To Find Water
Hubble Camera Lost "For Good"
Huge Lenses To Observe Dark Energy
IAU Classifies Pluto & Eris As "Plutoids"
Intermediate-Mass Black Hole Found In Omega Centauri
Latest Earth-Crossing Asteroid Passes by Tonight
Liquid Mirror Telescopes Set For Magnetic Upgrade
Making War On Light Pollution
Mars Lander's Robot Arm Shuts Down To Save Itself
Mars Probe Brings the "Weather Rock" New Respect
Milky Way's Black Hole a Gamma Source?
NASA Announces Water Found On Mars
New Horizons Releases Results
New Mexico Might Declare Pluto a Planet
New Radar Maps of Moon
Nuclear Decay May Vary With Earth-Sun Distance
Nukes Not the Best Way To Stop Asteroids, Says Apollo Astronaut
Odysseus's Return From the Trojan War Dated
Of Late, Fewer Sunspots Than Usual
Possible Clue On Saturn's Hexagon?
Rare Meteor Event to Inform on Dangerous Comets
Russia To Study Martian Moons Once Again
Sneak Peek at Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope
Star Cooler Than Venus Found
Star Swallows Companion, Burps Out Planet-Forming Cloud
Surprising Further Evidence for a Wet Mars
The Accidental Astrophysicists
The Impossibility of Colonizing the Galaxy
The Milky Way's Black Hole Is Not So Quiescent
The Secret of the Sun's Heated Atmosphere
Tunguska Blast Was a Small Asteroid
Tunguska Impact Crater Found?
Upgraded Hubble To Be 90 Times As Powerful
W3C Gets Excessive DTD Traffic
Water Ice On Mars
Workings of Ancient Calculating Device Deciphered
Aftermath of Distant Planetary Collision?
Antarctic Microbes Could Live on Mars
Astronomers Find Stars 7 Billion Light Years Away
Astronomers Locate Solar System Very Similar To Our Own
Cassini 'Tastes' Organic Material at Enceladus
Could We Find a Door To A Parallel Universe?
Far Future Will See No Evidence of Universe's Origin
Full Lunar Eclipse for the Americas on Wednesday
How a Pulsar Gets Its Spin
Hubble Space Telescope Detects Ring of Dark Matter
Japanese Probe Returns First HD Video of the Moon
Kuiper Belt Collision Found; Possible Comet Source
Mars Rover Ready for Risky Descent into Crater
Massive Star Burps, Then Explodes
Meteorite Causes Illness in Peru
Missing Potential Earth-Busting Asteroid Found
Mission Could Seek Out Spock's Home Planet
New Universes Will be Born from Ours
Powerful Supernova May Be Related To Death Spasms of First Stars
Scientists Find Solar System Like Ours
Two Totally Unique Star Systems Discovered
Monster Black Hole Busts Theory
New Map From Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope
Mars Orbiter Finds Evidence For Ancient Rivers, Lakes
Galaxies Twice As Bright As Previously Thought
Astronomers Find Huge Hole in Universe
Canada Comet Lengthened the Ice Age
Galaxy Sans Dark Matter
Hole in Asteroid Belt Reveals Extinction Asteroid
Mars Had an Ancient Impact Like Earth
Riding an Ion Drive to the Asteroid Belt
Scientists Fly to 2008's Most Dazzling Meteor Shower
The Next Fifty Years In Space
Tsunami Spotted on the Surface of the Sun
Astronomers Explode Virtual Supernova
Any Suggestions For a Meaningful Geeky Wedding Band?
Astronomers Find Oldest Known Asteroids
Black Hole Particle Jets Explained
Cassini Finds Source of Icy Jets On Enceladus
Cassini's Primary Mission Ends, Two-Year Extension Begins
Comet-Chasing Spacecraft Encounters Rare Asteroid
Could There Be Life On Titan?
Evidence Of Glaciers On Mars Suggests Recent Climate Activity
Genetic Building Blocks Found In Meteorite
Huge Hydrogen Cloud Will Hit Milky Way
Moon Rocks Still In Demand After Almost 40 Years
Newly Discovered Young Galaxy Creates 4,000 Stars Per Year
Scientists Solve Mystery of Star Formation Near Black Holes
Tracking Near-Earth Meteors With a 1.1 Petabyte Database
Arecibo Observatory Facing Massive Budget Cuts
Astronomers Again Baffled by Solar Observations
Lunar Eclipse Next Tuesday Morning
Lunar Lens Takes A Step Forward
Orion Nebula Gets New Milepost Marker, Now Closer
The Solar Oxygen Crisis

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