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A team of astronomers and engineers at an international astronomy project have made the first observations linking radio signals from two telescopes First observations from telescope link up made A team of astronomers and engineers at an international astronomy project have made the first observations linking radio signals from two telescopes The ...

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Just when you thought animated sci-fi couldn't get any worse than "Astro Boy," along comes the insipid "Planet 51" to blow it out of the galaxy.

PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Thursday, November 19, 2009 Source: European Space Agency - Comments The MIRAS instrument on ESA's SMOS satellite, launched earlier this month, has been switched on and is operating normally.

JOHN CUSACK MIGHT SURVIVE the end of the world in the new movie "2012," but if you want the real story of unlocking the Mayan calendar, experience Chabot's new digital full-dome show "Tales of the Maya Skies." Produced by Chabot Space and Science Center, the show explores the cosmology of the ancient Maya, their culture and contributions to ...

This amazing image also shows thousands of star clusters, strewn like glittering gems, churning inside Centaurus A. Centaurus A is the nearest giant, elliptical galaxy, at a distance of about 11 million light-years. One of the most studied objects in the southern sky, by 1847 the unique appearance of this galaxy had already caught the attention of ...

NASA's SOFIA infrared observatory 747SP overflies its home, the Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility in Palmdale, Calif.

Here is a great example of the process leading up to a type 1A supernova. Most of the time when we think of a supernova we think of a massive star collapsing in on itself because it has exhausted all of its fuel and gravity overcomes the force of the nuclear fires and hydrostatic pressure is lost and there is a collapse of titanic proportions.

Astronomers are constructing one of the biggest, most powerful instruments ever built, capable of peering far deeper into the universe and further back in time than ever before.

Astronomers will tie together the largest collection of the world's radio telescopes ever assembled to work as a single observing tool in a project aimed at improving the precision of the reference frame scientists use to measure positions in the sky.

Skyscrapers crumble to the ground, fiery meteorites smash into Earth and a Tibetan monk cowers as a massive tidal wave swamps his mountain retreat.

Published: Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 10:58 a.m. As animated films go, "Planet 51" is like the food purchased at the theater concession stand: Empty calories, consumed by people barely aware of what they're stuffing in their faces, and soon forgotten.

People flooded the phone lines Tuesday night as they called 911 trying to figure out what flashed in the middle of the night.

Still an astrophysical mystery, the evolution of the bulges in spiral galaxies led astronomers to the edge-on galaxy NGC4710.

Share + Nov 18, 2009 4:34 pm US/Mountain MIKE STARK, Associated Press Writer SALT LAKE CITY A streaking meteor the size of an oven briefly illuminated parts of the Utah sky to daylight-level conditions early Wednesday, surveillance footage shows.

A new image of the bulge at the center of a distant spiral galaxy, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, is giving astronomers insight into how these galactic paunches form.

Chinese astronomers have signed on to participate in the development of the world's largest telescope that will be built atop a Hawaii volcano, a group said Tuesday.

NASA said last week that the world was not ending - at least anytime soon. Last year, CERN , the European Center for Nuclear Research, said the same thing, which I guess is good news for those of us who are habitually jittery.

German amateur astronomer Bernhard Christ was in the right place at the right time - due to very careful planning and foresight - and captured this astonishing scene: [Click to embiggen.] That's the International Space Station crossing the face of the Moon, what astronomers call a transit .

Visit SPACE.com to explore a new Science feature each Tuesday. The IMaX instrument on the SUNRISE telescope not only depicts the solar surface, it also makes magnetic fields visible; these appear as black or white structures in the polarised light.