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Planck Telescope is Officially Dead

- October 23, 2013

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ESA Prepares to Shut Off the Planck Observatory

- October 21, 2013

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Neptune Inner Moon Naiad Rediscovered in Hubble Images

- October 10, 2013

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Astronomers Find “Twist” in Cosmic Microwave Background

- October 2, 2013

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Clouds Mapped on Jupiter-Like Exoplanet

- October 1, 2013

NASA’s NuSTAR Finds Its First 10 Supermassive Black Holes

Astronomers this week announced that NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (...

Spitzer Telescope Now a Decade Old

Sunday marks the ten-year anniversary of the launch of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. NASA today commemorated the milestone b...

Kepler Space Telescope Broken, NASA Gives Up on Restoration

Sometimes the best physicists, engineers, and mathematicians in the world can't save a failing satellite. NASA announced today...

Super-Strong Magnetic Field Found Around Magnetar

Astronomers this week revealed that one of the strongest magnetic fields ever observed has been spotted around a neutron s...

Smallest Planet Yet Spotted Around Sun-Like Star

Astronomers this week announced they have directly imaged the smallest planet yet found around a sun-like star. The plane...

Maria Mitchell Google Doodle Honors First Female Professional Astronomer

Today, Google is honoring Maria Mitchell with a really cool Doodle that shows the first American professional female astronomer using a telescope to look to the sky - presumably in...

Most “Centaurs” Are Comets, Say Astronomers

For years, the small objects orbiting the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune have remained a mystery to astronomers. Dubbed "centaurs," researchers were unsure what exactly the objec...

‘Snow Line’ Spotted in Young Solar System

Astronomers this week revealed that the first-ever "snow line" of a solar system has been spotted. Scientists believe tha...

New Neptune Moon Found by Hubble Space Telescope

NASA this week revealed that a new moon has been spotted orbiting the furthest planet from the sun, Neptune. The moon, the 1...

Astronomers Spot Massive Star In-Utero

Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory's Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) this week revealed tha...

Hubble Telescope Spots a Blue Planet

Astronomers have been finding and cataloging exoplanets for yea...

Astronomers Find Extra-Galactic Radio Bursts

Astronomers this week announced that the first confirmed radio bursts from outside our Milky Way galaxy have been detected...

Distant Galaxy Caught ‘Feeding’ on Gas Clouds

Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Teles...

NASA Shuts Down Galaxy Explorer Telescope

Just over ten years after its launch, NASA this afternoon decommissioned its Galaxy Evolution Explorer spacecraft. The satelli...

NASA Launches IRIS to Study Sun’s Atmosphere

After being delayed for one day over a power outage at Vandenberg Air Force Base, NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph...

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