First Planetary Flyby Occurred 50 Years Ago
Mariner 2 zoomed to within 21,564 miles of Venus on Dec. 14, 1962. Read more
Chinese Probe Buzzes Asteroid Toutatis
The Chinese Chang'e 2 probe has completed flyby of asteroid Toutatis, a five-kilometer-long space rock that recently had a "close" encounter with Earth. Read more
Will NASA Boldly Go to Europa?
Researchers are developing a mission that would assess the habitability of the icy satellite. Read more
Kamikaze Probes to Smash into Lunar Mountain
The two NASA GRAIL robotic moon satellites will make the suicidal and dramatic plunge into a lunar mountain on Monday. Read more
Andromeda's Bling: Tiny Greedy Quasar Found
That's right, the nearby spiral galaxy Andromeda is strutting some quasar bling -- the first microquasar discovered beyond our own galaxy. Read more
Hubble Detects Furthest Oldest Galaxy... Again?!
It seems like every other day astronomers have discovered the "oldest most distant galaxy" -- but this new record breaker is really very old, and extremely distant. Read more
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