ANOTHER asteroid will make a "close approach" this week and is being watched by space enthusiasts. Asteroid 2007 FF1 is expected to make a close and safe encounter with our planet on April 1, accord… [+11664 chars]
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Very few people who think about watches think very much about clocks. But clocks were here long before watches (a lot longer if you count things like sundials and water clocks, and I do), and they wi… [+6810 chars]
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The Universe isn't a chaotic free-for-all. Most of the stars are bound up in galaxies, which are separated by vast, almost unimaginable distances. The space between the galaxies intergalactic space … [+4140 chars]
The "chaos" regions on Jupiter's moon Europa might hold keys to the possible existence of life in the ocean under the moon's icy crust. A fresh look at an older theory lends more weight to the idea … [+4018 chars]
(CNN)The Hubble Space Telescope has glimpsed the most distant single star it's ever observed, glimmering 28 billion light-years away. And the star could be between 50 to 500 times more massive than o… [+4696 chars]
A sample of moon dust collected by Neil Armstrong during the Apollo 11 mission will go under the hammer in New York next month. As part of a Bonhams auction of rare space-history-related artifacts, t… [+7577 chars]
Recent images captured by the European Space Agencys Mars Express orbiter reveal large craters in Utopia, the largest known impact basin in the Solar System. Utopia is about 2,050 miles wideroughly… [+2509 chars]
GRAND PORTAGE, Minn. (AP) To administer this COVID test, Todd Kautz had to lay on his belly in the snow and worm his upper body into the narrow den of a hibernating black bear. Training a light on it… [+8194 chars]
A fast-erupting sunspot just hurled out a huge flare. The hotbed of sun activity, known officially as AR2975, sent out a powerful X-class flare that has already created a temporary blackout in short… [+2917 chars]
A sample of moon dust collected by Neil Armstrong during the Apollo 11 mission will go under the hammer in New York next month. As part of a Bonhams auction of rare space-history-related artifacts, t… [+7577 chars]
