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A new planet which is similar to Earth has been discovered by astronomers. The exoplanet, named Gliese 581 d, could allow water to be liquid on the planet's surface.
Astronomers braced for a near collision as an asteroid came within 48,000 miles from Earth. The meteor was similar to one in 1908 which exploded over Siberia and flattened 800 square miles of forest.
Comet Lulin is dropping about 800 gallons of water per second. Astronomers can watch the illumination display as it passes within 38 million miles from Earth.
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered hot temperatures on an exoplanet that is 190 nearly light-years from Earth. Astronomers used the telescope to measure heat from the planet using infrared technologyduring their space exploration.
Earth's moon will be closer to our planet on Friday night. The moon will definitely put on a bright show as it will situate more than 31,000 miles closer to earth.
Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe analyzed a new strange light from the heavens more than 400 years ago. Scientists now say they can unveil just what he saw. The light came from a supernova explosion.
A team of astronomers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab has detected hints of liquid water on one of Saturn's moons. The researchers used images from the space agency's Cassini probe that reveal the possibility of water on Enceladus.
Planets Jupiter and Venus will begin to light up the sky on Thanksgiving night. The two planets will move closer to one another this week. They will be the brightest objects in the sky.
Two young astronomers have captured for the first time the earliest death throes of a supernova, verifying a decades-old theory about how these giant stars commit stellar suicide.
The two new planets are orbiting a small star in a solar system thousands of light years away.
The discovery marks the first quintuple planetary system ever found and it suggests that systems packed with planets might be much more abundant in the spatial universe than previously believed.
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