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Last week NASA announced the discovery of an Earth-like planet in a 290-day orbit, placing it firmly in the habitable zone of its Sun. I was...

Last week an asteroid known as 2005 YU55 zoomed past the Earth at a distance closer than the Moon. Imagine if astronomers knew about a simi...

Last month a team of physicists from the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland announced that they had sent a burst of ...

If you are an astronomer who doesn't work at a university, the chances are good that you work at one of the many federally funded resear...

Last week, just in time for the annual Perseid meteor shower , NASA scientists announced new evidence that the building blocks of life may h...

When the shuttle Atlantis touched down in Florida last week, it marked the end of an era for space exploration. Thousands of NASA engineers...

Earlier this month, reports emerged from the Solar Physics Division meeting of the American Astronomical Society that the Sun may be headed ...

Last week at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Boston, scientists working with NASA's Kepler mission announced the confi...

NASA's space shuttle program will soon be coming to an end, after 30 years and 135 missions to low-Earth orbit. The "final" la...

Just as in Hollywood, the age of a star is not always obvious if you look only at the surface. During certain phases in a star's life, i...

In his global warming memoir "Storms of my Grandchildren" , NASA scientist James Hansen describes his role over the last decade tr...

Last week I attended the annual winter meeting of the American Astronomical Society. After hearing such a broad range of scientific presenta...