About 1,000 asteroids big enough to cause catastrophic damage if they hit Earth are orbiting relatively…
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Supercooled cosmic camera probing the mysteries of star formation
The heart of the SCUBA-2 astronomy camera, unveiled Tuesday at the top of Mauna Kea summit…
Super-Earth is only 600 light years away
The Kepler space telescope has confirmed its first planet in a habitable zone outside our solar…
Planet found orbiting habitable zone of sun-like star
The most Earth-like planet ever discovered is circling a star 600 light years away, a key…
Astronomers discover biggest black holes ever
Scientists have discovered the two biggest black holes ever observed, each with a mass billions of…
Christmas gamma-ray burst a possible comet crash
A burst of gamma-ray radiation from a distant galaxy, detected by an orbiting U.S. telescope last…
Canadian sensor holds key to NASA’s hunt for life on Mars
NASA's $2.5-billion spacecraft carrying a minivan-sized rover named Curiosity rocketed into space early Saturday, the start…
Rover sniffs out possibility of life on Mars
A nuclear-powered rover as big as a compact car is set to begin a ninemonth journey…
Space probe now shows signs of life
Engineers fought desperately Wednesday to save Russia's Phobos-Grunt spacecraft after the Martian probe sent "a first…
China completes second space docking
China complets its second space docking, state media reports, as it moves closer towards fulfilling its…