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Posted February 9, 2012:

• NASA Small Explorer Mission Celebrates 10 Years and 40,000 X-Ray Flares

Posted February 8, 2012:

• Milky Way's Black Hole Found Grazing on Asteroids

Posted February 1, 2012:

• Sun Delivered Curveball of Powerful Radiation at Earth

Posted January 31, 2012:

• IBEX Spacecraft Measures 'Alien' Particles from Outside Solar System
• 'Cool' Gas May Form and Strengthen Sunspots

Posted January 30, 2012:

• Sun Unleashes an X1.8 Class Flare on Jan. 27, 2012

Posted January 29, 2012:

• Astronomers Solve Mystery of Vanishing Electrons in Earth's Outer Radiation Belt

Posted January 27, 2012:

• Mars-Bound Instrument Detects Solar Burst's Effects: RAD Measures Radiation from Solar Storm

Posted January 25, 2012:

• Giant Asteroid Vesta Likely Cold and Dark Enough for Ice
• NASA's NuSTAR Ships to Vandenberg for March 14 Launch
• World's Most Powerful X-Ray Laser Creates 2-Million-Degree Matter
• Classifying Solar Eruptions

Posted January 20, 2012:

• Catching a Comet Death on Camera

Posted January 19, 2012:

• Helix Nebula in New Colors

Posted January 18, 2012:

• Solar Dynamics Observatory Helps Measure Magnetic Fields on the Sun's Surface

Posted January 10, 2012:

• Before They Were Stars: New Image Shows Space Nursery

Posted January 9, 2012:

• 'Greeley Haven' Is Winter Workplace for Mars Rover
• Saturn-Like Ring System Eclipses Sun-Like Star

Posted January 6, 2012:

• Mars Rover to Spend Winter at 'Greeley Haven'

Posted January 4, 2012:

• New Computer Model Explains Lakes and Storms on Saturn's Moon Titan
• Through Hardship to the Stars

Posted December 28, 2011:

• 2012: Fear No Supernova
• 2012: Shadow of the Dark Rift

Posted December 24, 2011:

• Christmas Comet Lovejoy Captured at Paranal Observatory in Chile

Posted December 21, 2011:

• Astronomers Discover Deep-Fried Planets: Two Earth-Sized Planets Around Dying Star That Has Passed the Red Giant Stage

Posted December 20, 2011:

• First Earth-Size Planets Beyond Our Solar System: Smallest Exoplanets Ever Confirmed Around a Star Like Our Sun

Posted December 15, 2011:

• Young Star Rebels Against Its Parent Cloud

Posted December 13, 2011:

• Preparing for Future Human Exploration, RAD Measures Radiation on Journey to Mars
• Using Many Instruments to Track a Comet
• NASA Mars-Bound Rover Begins Research in Space

Posted December 7, 2011:

• Solar Storms Could Sandblast the Moon

Posted December 5, 2011:

• NASA's Voyager Hits New Region at Solar System Edge
• Record Massive Black Holes Discovered Lurking in Monster Galaxies

Posted December 2, 2011:

• Astronomers Find 18 New Planets: Discovery Is the Largest Collection of Confirmed Planets Around Stars More Massive Than the Sun

Posted November 30, 2011:

• Astronomers Discover New Exoplanet Similar in Size to Earth; Planet Kepler-21b Found Using Space and Ground-Based Observations

Posted November 29, 2011:

• NASA's Nanosail-D 'Sails' Home -- Mission Complete

Posted November 28, 2011:

• In the Heart of Cygnus, NASA's Fermi Reveals a Cosmic-Ray Cocoon

Posted November 16, 2011:

• NASA Extends MESSENGER Mission Orbiting Mercury

Posted November 15, 2011:

• Why Solar Wind Is Rhombic-Shaped: Temperature and Energy Equipartition in Cosmic Plasmas Explained

Posted November 14, 2011:

• Voyager 2 Completes Switch to Backup Thruster Set

Posted November 11, 2011:

• 2012: Killer Solar Flares Are a Physical Impossibility, Experts Say
• Lutetia: A Rare Survivor from the Birth of Earth

Posted November 10, 2011:

• Giant Planet Ejected from the Solar System?
• Astronomers Find Clouds of Primordial Gas from the Early Universe, Just Moments After Big Bang

Posted November 6, 2011:

• Voyager 2 to Switch to Backup Thruster Set

Posted November 2, 2011:

• Astrobiologists Discover 'Sweet Spots' for the Formation of Complex Organic Molecules in the Galaxy

Posted October 27, 2011:

• Three New Planets and a Mystery Object Discovered Outside Our Solar System

Posted October 26, 2011:

• Faraway Eris Is Pluto's Twin

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