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Rare binary asteroids discovered by undergraduate students

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 8, 2014, 17:27

Undergraduate students taking classes for non-astronomy majors at the University of Maryland have made a rare discovery- a pair of binary asteroids that orbit and eclipse each other.

Massive exoplanets may be more Earth-like than previously believed

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 8, 2014, 15:28

A team of researchers have said that massive exoplanets, called "Super-Earths," are much likelier to have an Earth-like climate than previously believed.

Reactivated NASA probe finds never-before-seen asteroid

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 8, 2014, 15:24

NASA`s Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) probe has found a never-before-seen asteroid - its first such discovery since it was brought out of hibernation last year.

Hubble space telescope finds deep sea of small, faint early galaxies

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 8, 2014, 15:35

NASA`s Hubble Space Telescope has found the long-suspected underlying population of galaxies, which produced the bulk of new stars during the universe`s early years.

Sun emits first `X-class` solar flare of 2014

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 8, 2014, 12:38

The sun emitted it`s first `X-class` solar flare of 2014 at 1:32 pm EST on Tuesday.

Storms as big as Jupiter`s `great red spot` discovered on brown dwarfs

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 8, 2014, 10:24

New observations from NASA`s Spitzer Space Telescope have suggested that most brown dwarfs also feature one or more Jupiter`s "Great Red Spot" like planet-size storms.

Abundant `mini-Neptunes` form new class of alien planets

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 7, 2014, 23:48

Kepler`s cornucopia of alien worlds has found a new entrant in the form of a new kind of planet.

Orbital Sciences` Antares launch scheduled on 8 January

Orbital Sciences` Antares launch scheduled on 8 January

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 7, 2014, 16:41

Orbital Sciences Corporation will launch its Antares rocket from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on Wednesday.

Earth`s `gaseous twin` discovered 200 light years away

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 7, 2014, 12:20

Scientists have come across a new planet, considered Earth`s `twin`, in another solar system that is located 200 light years away.

Newly discovered small exoplanets may be fluffy

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 7, 2014, 10:33

During its four-year mission, NASA`s Kepler space telescope discovered thousands of "planetary candidates" in our Milky Way galaxy, many of which were found to be covered in gas.