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Astronomers Discover New Class of Pulsating Star
Astronomers Dissect a Supermassive Black Hole
Multiple Asteroid Belts Found Orbiting Nearby Star
Astronomers Find the Calmest Place On Earth
Matter Discovered Traveling at Near Light Speed
New Wide-Angle Telescope to Capture Night Sky
Astronomer Discovers the Most Distant Stars Ever Observed From Earth
Giant Ribbon Discovered At Edge of Solar System
Irish Astronomers Investigate Sky Explosion
Blue Ring Around Uranus
Astronomers Awaiting 1a Supernova
New Map From Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope
Comet Unexpectedly Brightens a Millionfold
Adaptive Thirty Meter Telescope Sees Progress
NASA Spacecraft Set to Shine Spotlight on Mercury
The Quietest Sun
Arecibo Observatory Loses Funding
Astronomers Locate Solar System Very Similar To Our Own
Computer Model Points To the Missing Matter
Kuiper Belt Collision Found; Possible Comet Source
Largest Black Hole Measured
Sneak Peek at Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope
Upgraded Hubble To Be 90 Times As Powerful
New Clues for Antikythera Mechanism
First Image of a Planet Orbiting a Sun-Like Star
Galaxies Twice As Bright As Previously Thought
New Study Shows Solar System Is Uncommon
Object Defies Categorization As Planet or Star
Survey of Super Massive Black Holes Completed
Astronomers Explode Virtual Supernova
Jupiter Gets New Red Spot
Solar Systems Like Ours Are Likely To Be Rare
Supernova May Explain How Planets are Formed
Rare Lone Neutron Star Found Nearby
Supercomputer Models Sun's Corona Dynamics
The Astronomical Event Search Engine
Giant Cloud of Methanol Found in Space
Monster Black Hole Busts Theory
Sun Research Yields Unexpected Results
Dwarf Galaxies Discovered
"Dark Flow" Outside Observable Universe
Hubble Finds Unidentified Object In Space
Looking for Life in Light
Gravitational Waves May Have Been Detected In 1987
Most Extreme Gamma-Ray Blast Yet Detected
Mystery of the Missing Sunspots, Solved?
Possible Extra-Galactic Planet Detected
Hubble Survey Finds Half of the Missing Matter
Spitzer's 5-Gigapixel Milky Way
Voyager 2 Detects Peculiar Solar System Edge
1.4 Billion Pixel Camera To Watch For Asteroids
Ancient Star Found, Estimated at 13.2 Billion Years Old
Galaxy Zoo Produces a Rare Specimen
Possible Active Glacier Found On Mars
Scientist Calls Mars a Terraforming Target
Stars Could Shine In Many Universes
Study Concludes "Planet" Was Just Stellar Spots
The Sun Has First Spotless Month Since 1913
Very Large Telescope Captures New 27-Megapixel Deep Field
Planets Without Stars or Mini-Solar Systems?
Projecting Data on a Sphere
Brian May, Rock Legend, Publishes His Thesis
Hubble Space Telescope's Sixteenth Anniversary
Ultra-Sensitive Camera To Measure Exoplanet Sizes
Virtual Telescope Zooms In On Milky Way Black Hole
Definition of Planet to be Announced in September
Billions of Planets In Milky Way?
Google Earth Gets Star-Gazing Add On
Largest Object in the Universe Discovered
The Universe Damaged By Observation?
Do We Live In a Giant Cosmic Bubble?
Black Holes May Not Grow Beyond Certain Limit
Shortlist of Possible ET Addresses
Hubble Camera Lost "For Good"
Galactic Traffic Patterns
Colliding Galaxies Reveal Colossal Black Holes
"Perfect" Mirrors Cast For LSST
200,000 Elliptical Galaxies Point the Same Way
6.7 Meter Telescope To Capture 30 Terabytes Per Night
A New Angle on Martian Methane
A Puffed-Up Extrasolar Planet
A Symmetrical Cosmic Red Square
A Telescope In a Cubic Kilometer of Ice
Anomalous Pulsar In Binary System Stymies Theorists
Astronomy Hacks
Black Hole Information Loss Paradox Solution Proposed
Canada Comet Lengthened the Ice Age
Cassini Could Find Signs of Life on Enceladus
Changes in Earth's Orbit Linked to Extinctions
Could There Be Life On Titan?
Deep Impact Probe to Look for Earth-sized Planets
Details Emerging On Tunguska Impact Crater
Eta Carinae, Soon To Be a Local Supernova
First Oort Cloud Object May Have Been Discovered
Found In Space (On Flickr)
Galactic Origin For 62M-Year Extinction Cycle?
Gravity Tractor Could Deflect Asteroids
Hole in Asteroid Belt Reveals Extinction Asteroid
Hubble Reinforces Planet Formation Theory
Jupiter's Little White Spot Turns Red
Looking For Earth-Like Exoplanets
Lunar Lens Takes A Step Forward
Mars Polar Cap Mystery Solved
Mars Rover Ready for Risky Descent into Crater
Mars Rover's Epic Trek For the Crater Endeavor
Mission Could Seek Out Spock's Home Planet
Moon May Have Once Had Water
NASA Announces Water Found On Mars
Naphthalene Found In Outer Space
New Class of Pulsars Discovered
New Moon Found In Saturn's G-Ring
No Naked Black Holes
No Shadow From the Big Bang?
Nuclear Decay May Vary With Earth-Sun Distance
Possible Clue On Saturn's Hexagon?
Saturn's Rings May Be Very Old
Scientists Solve Mystery of Star Formation Near Black Holes
Sharpest Images With "Lucky" Telescope
Solar Cycle 24 Has Started
Solar Wind Rips Up Martian Atmosphere
Star Cooler Than Venus Found
Stellar Seismologists Record "Music" From Stars
Surprising Further Evidence for a Wet Mars
The Accidental Astrophysicists
The Milky Way's Black Hole Is Not So Quiescent
The Solar Oxygen Crisis
Workings of Ancient Calculating Device Deciphered
Huge Storms Converge on Jupiter
Hubble Discovers Dark Spot on Uranus
New Large Rocky Planet Found
Geologists Angry About New 'Pluton' Definition
Entry-Level Astronomy?
Black Holes and Cosmic Snapshots
Pojmanski Comet in View
Planet Discovered Using Telephoto Camera Lenses
Moon's Bulge Explained
A Star That Bursts, Blinks and Disappears
Astronomers Again Baffled by Solar Observations
Earthlike Planet Orbiting Nearby Star
How a Pulsar Gets Its Spin
Lame Duck Challenge Ends With Free Codeweavers Software For All
Missing Potential Earth-Busting Asteroid Found
NASA Confirms Solar Storm Near 2012
Probable Meteorite Impact in Latvia
Scientists find coldest spot in solar system, evid
Voyager 1 Passes 100 AU from the Sun
The Tenth Planet Shrinks Under Hubble's Gaze
Galaxy Survey Confounds Dark Matter Theory
Search For the Tomb of Copernicus Reaches an End
34-foot Telescope Opens in Spain's Canary Islands
Our Moon Could Become a Planet
Astronomers Find Huge Hole in Universe
Mars Orbiter Finds Evidence For Ancient Rivers, Lakes
Telescope network to crunch an exabyte of data a d
Shadowed Lunar Craters May Be Coldest Spot In the Solar System
Three Neptune-sized Planets Found Nearby
Earth Could Collide With Other Planets
NASA Cancels Missions After All
Computer Forensics to Help Solve Pioneer Mystery
VOYAGER 1 Signal Received by AMSAT-DL Group
When Black Holes Collide
New Asteroid Becomes Earth's Biggest Threat
IAU Names Fifth Dwarf Planet Haumea