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Dawn Gets Closer To Ceres, Reveals 4-Mile High Mountain

By Peter R - Aug 26, 2015 12:44 PM EDT

Dawn is 915 miles away from Ceres and is expected to inch closer later this year.

Super Earths Just 21 Lights Years Away: NASA

By Peter R - Aug 01, 2015 07:43 PM EDT

Three planets that can be described as super-Earths and one big outer planet form a system similar to our own solar system.

Auroras Make 'Failed Stars' Brown Dwarfs More Planet Like

By Peter R - Jul 30, 2015 06:29 PM EDT

Researchers who studied a brown dwarf about 20 light years away, observed auroras in its magnetosphere.

NASA's New Horizons Pluto Data Will Take 16 Months To Reach Earth

By Peter R - Jul 15, 2015 08:49 AM EDT

The spacecraft has spent 21 hours collecting data, mostly about Pluto. Communications with Earth were temporarily suspended during data collection.

Rare System With Five Stars Has Astronomers Excited

By Peter R - Jul 09, 2015 03:48 PM EDT

The star system is rare and is said to be 250 light-years away.

Shark Selfies To Help Take Stock Of Numbers

By Peter R - Jul 08, 2015 05:14 PM EDT

Researchers intend to camera trap sharks, rays and skates to understand how many there are in Earth's oceans. This database is expected to give conservation a boost.

New Horizons Back 'Online' After Glitch

By Peter R - Jul 06, 2015 01:36 PM EDT

The spacecraft went incommunicado on Saturday, just about a week before its July 14 Pluto flyby.

Is NASA Keeping Us In Dark About Aliens?

By Peter R - Jun 30, 2015 04:43 PM EDT

A Youtube video claims that cameras aboard ISS captured UFOs leaving Earth but NASA is being tightlipped about it.

Jupiter And Venus To Line Up For Stellar Spectacle On Tuesday

By Peter R - Jun 30, 2015 09:00 AM EDT

The planets will be within half degree of line of sight in the night sky though they are millions of miles apart.

Leap Second To Make Tuesday Year's Longest Day

By Peter R - Jun 29, 2015 12:16 PM EDT

The leap second will be added to compensate for Earth's slowing rotation

Distant Planet Shows How Earth Could Meet Its End

By Peter R - Jun 26, 2015 07:21 AM EDT

Hubble Telescope helped astrophysicists discover a planet that is losing its atmosphere to evaporation, as the planet is too close to its star.

Earth In Its Sixth Phase Of Mass Extinction, Courtesy to Humans

By Peter R - Jun 20, 2015 07:19 PM EDT

A new study warns that only rapid intervention by reversing climate change and preventing extinction of species, can save life as we know.

Polar Winds On Titan Make It Earth-Like

By Peter R - Jun 20, 2015 02:29 PM EDT

Nearly a decade after the phenomenon of polar winds was observed, researchers have explained it is caused by interaction of sunlight with Titan's atmosphere.

Mass Measurement Of Behemoth Black Hole Reveals New Science

By Peter R - Jun 18, 2015 04:32 PM EDT

The black hole powering NGC 1097 is 140 million times the mass of sun. Researchers used distribution and movement two molecules to estimate the mass of the black hole.

First Ever 4K Time Lapse of Planet Earth Created With Just 100 GB of International Space Station Images

By Peter R - Jun 18, 2015 02:50 PM EDT

The time-lapse has recieved more than 100,000 views in just a day of being published.

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