The video game, Lacuna Passage, is using real life martian landscape, as imaged by the HiRISE camera.
A recent simulation predicts that NASA's New Horizons probe
could slam into a rocky killing field encircling the "binary planet"
Pluto-Charon, during its 2015 flyby.
In Chile, a brand new radio telescope is coming to life --
Discovery News' Nicole Gugliucci was there to see the inauguration of
the impressive Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array.
A trio of quasars, only the second of its kind ever discovered, has been found 9 billion light years away.
Astronomy can be a cosmic detective story, and our enduring
fascination with the solar system's mysterious hinterland of small icy
objects in the Kuiper belt is no exception.
A newly discovered star system, made up of a pair of tiny
brown dwarfs, is just 6.5 light-years away - this makes it the closest
to be found since 1916, and the third closest star system to the sun!
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