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 | Errors within the telescope's computer system cause the servicing mission to move into 2009.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: September 30, 2008 |
 | A group of galaxies in our cosmic backyard has given astronomers clues about how stars form.
Provided by STScI, Baltimore, Maryland
Published: September 30, 2008 |
 | This finding points to past interactions between minerals and liquid water.
Provided by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
Published: September 29, 2008 |
 | A faulty electrical connection may have caused helium leak.
Provided by CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
Published: September 29, 2008 |
 | A new NASA satellite lets everyone participate in a space mission.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: September 26, 2008 |
 | The nearly 40 submissions to Astronomy magazine's 2008 Out-of-this-world programming award represent a collection of the country's best astronomy outreach programs.
Published: September 26, 2008 |
 | Deformation bands in martian bedrock help us further understand ancient groundwater on Mars.
Provided by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
Published: September 26, 2008 |
 | This surprising flashes were detected by NASA's Swift satellite.
Provided by the Max Planck Institute, Garching, Germany
Published: September 25, 2008 |
 | Powerful nearby supernova caught by web of telescopes.
Provided by ESO, Garching, Germany
Published: September 25, 2008 |
 | This could cause the Sun's heliosphere to shrink in size and strength.
Provided by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
Published: September 24, 2008 |
 | Data from MESSENGER's first flyby of the planet closest to the Sun have some scientists thinking unique surface structures formed from impacts, others suspect volcanic activity.
Provided by European Planetary Science Congress
Published: September 24, 2008 |
 | Scientists detect cosmic "dark flow" across billions of light years.
Provided by Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
Published: September 24, 2008 |
 | ESA's Mars Express spacecraft finds weather system is to blame.
Provided by ESA, Noordwijk, Netherlands
Published: September 23, 2008 |
 | Mars rover to head toward bigger crater
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: September 23, 2008 |
 | Mission scientists will ask the Mars' lander to do a maneuver outside its repertoire. The payoff: unique insight into the Red Planet's icy layer beneath its surface.
Provided by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
Published: September 23, 2008 |
 | Swift satellite found the farthest burst ever detected.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: September 22, 2008 |
 | Meteorites from inner solar system match up to Earth's platinum standard.
Provided by European Planetary Science Congress
Published: September 22, 2008 |
 | Pulsating stars enabled this new determination of our galaxy's rotation.
Provided by ESO, Garching, Germany
Published: September 22, 2008 |
 | This galaxy has more dark matter than any other galaxy in the universe.
Provided by Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Published: September 19, 2008 |
 | An oxygen isotope signature was found in the comet's dust.
Provided by the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Published: September 19, 2008 |
 | Studying disks around young stars could help astronomers in the search for life on other planets.
Provided by ESO, Garching, Germany
Published: September 19, 2008 |
 | Surface water may have existed far longer on some parts of Mars.
Provided by the Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, Arizona
Published: September 18, 2008 |
 | Recent images of venusian winds reveal new details.
Provided by ESA, Noordwijk, Netherlands
Published: September 18, 2008 |
 | The Hubble Space Telescope discovers overlapping galaxies.
Provided by STScI, Baltimore, Maryland
Published: September 17, 2008 |
 | Our star could be far from its birthplace.
Provided by the University of Washington, Seattle
Published: September 17, 2008 |
 | NASA selects University of Colorado, Boulder, to lead $485 million Mars mission.
Provided by the University of Colorado, Boulder
Published: September 16, 2008 |
 | New research raises the exciting prospect that the dark disk — and dark matter — could be directly detected in the very near future.
Provided by the Royal Astronomical Society, United Kingdom
Published: September 16, 2008 |
 | Astronomers have unveiled what is likely the first picture of a planet around a normal star similar to the Sun.
Provided by Gemini Observatory, Hilo, Hawaii
Published: September 15, 2008 |
 | A web designer from Boulder, Colorado, wins an 8-inch telescope from Meade Instruments Corp. By Megan McChain
Published: September 12, 2008 |
 | NASA's Phoenix lander sees and feels these martian whirlwinds.
Provided by the University of Arizona, Tucson
Published: September 12, 2008 |
 | Brightest stellar explosion heralds new type of long-distance astronomy.
Provided by the University of California, Berkeley
Published: September 11, 2008 |
| The particle collider fired its first proton beams. By Megan McChain
Published: September 10, 2008 |
 | Next Mars soil scoop slated for last of Lander's wet lab cells.
Provided by the University of Arizona, Tucson
Published: September 10, 2008 |
 | Valley networks on Mars formed during a long period of episodic flooding.
Provided by the University of California, Santa Cruz
Published: September 9, 2008 |
 | Rosetta captures asteroid Steins.
Provided by ESA, Noordwijk, Netherlands
Published: September 8, 2008 |
| New accelerator confidently starts up on Wednesday.
Provided by Phillip F. Schewe/ISNS
Published: September 8, 2008 |
 | A prodigious pinwheel shines in the darkness.
Provided by ESO, Garching, Germany
Published: September 5, 2008 |
 | Cassini captures images of the faint rings.
Provided by the Cassini Imaging Lab, Boulder, Colorado
Published: September 5, 2008 |
 | NASA's lander is expected to spend another month on Mars.
Provided by the University of Arizona, Tucson
Published: September 4, 2008 |
 | Astronomers have taken the closest look ever at the giant black hole in the center of the Milky Way.
Provided by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Published: September 3, 2008 |
 | This breakthrough helps researchers better understand mysterious dark matter.
Provided by the University of California, Irvine
Published: September 2, 2008 |
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