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 | NASA announces a servicing mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.
Irene Klotz
Published: October 31, 2006 |
 | Hawaiian observatories assess damage and repair telescopes following October 15 earthquakes.
Kate Meredith
Published: October 30, 2006 |
 | Folio magazine honors Astronomy in "Enthusiast (Art, Hobbies and Crafts)" category.
Katie Neubauer
Published: October 30, 2006 |
 | NASA celebrates the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit's 1,000th day on the Red Planet. By Jeremy McGovern
Published: October 26, 2006 |
 | The twin spacecraft STEREO A and B will provide scientists with a 3-D view of the Sun. By Tracy Staedter
Published: October 26, 2006 |
 | Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope have observed a young star maturing.
Provided by the Subaru Telescope Facility, Hilo, Hawaii
Published: October 25, 2006 |
 | New Mexico Tech's Magdalena Ridge Observatory will hunt for small bodies throughout the solar system.
Provided by New Mexico Tech, Socorro
Published: October 23, 2006 |
 | New research suggests multiple impacts from space, volcanoes, and climate changes on Earth caused dinosaurs' extinction.
Provided by the Geological Society of America, Boulder, Colorado
Published: October 21, 2006 |
 | A study of extreme microbes on Earth suggests life can develop mechanisms to withstand freezing temperatures like those on Mars.
Provided by STScI, Baltimore, Maryland
Published: October 20, 2006 |
 | Infrared observations of the Andromeda Galaxy show it collided with dwarf galaxy M32 some 200 million years ago.
Provided by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Published: October 19, 2006 |
 | As U.S. astronauts and Russian cosmonauts prepare to head to space, NASA gives school children a chance to name a space-station component. By Jeremy McGovern
Published: October 19, 2006 |
 | Despite earlier hints of ice at the lunar poles, scientists' latest search comes up empty.
Provided by Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Published: October 19, 2006 |
 | Meteorite hunters use interplanetary technology to locate a rare space-fall in Kansas. By Michael E. Bakich
Published: October 18, 2006 |
 | The Hubble Space Telescope has captured merging galaxies that produce stellar birth.
Provided by STScI, Baltimore, Maryland
Published: October 17, 2006 |
 | Hawaii earthquakes temporarily shake up the world's largest optical telescopes. By Francis Reddy
Published: October 17, 2006 |
 | Colliding ions create the heaviest element yet found. By Francis Reddy
Published: October 16, 2006 |
 | Cassini has imaged evidence of a comet or meteoroid impact in Saturn's D ring.
Provided by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
Published: October 13, 2006 |
 | For the first time, scientists have directly measured day and night temperatures on a planet outside our solar system. By Laura Layton
Published: October 12, 2006 |
 | Research by Tristan Guillot of the Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur in Nice, France, provides new insights into the composition of giant planets.
Provided by Observatoire de la Cote D' Azur, France
Published: October 12, 2006 |
 | A cosmic "baby picture" earns the chief architects of NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer the year's top physics prize. By Francis Reddy
Published: October 5, 2006 |
 | Researchers identify 16 new exoplanet candidates in Hubble Space Telescope images ? and a new class of exoplanets. By Jeremy McGovern
Published: October 4, 2006 |
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