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 | NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has reached its science team's first destination for the rover inside Victoria Crater.
Provided by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
Published: September 28, 2007 |
 | The ESA's XMM-Newton observatory has provided new insight into puzzling celestial objects known as magnetars.
Provided by ESA, Noordwijk, Netherlands
Published: September 27, 2007 |
 | The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory has imaged hundreds of comets, but recently found its first that flies by the Sun at regular intervals.
Provided by ESA, Noordwijk, Netherlands
Published: September 26, 2007 |
 | NASA's spacecraft takes off for its mission to the asteroid belt.
Provided by NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Published: September 26, 2007 |
 | Cancelled in 2006, NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array receives reprieve and will begin hunting for black holes in 2011.
Provided by the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Published: September 25, 2007 |
 | Using two NASA orbiters, scientists have found seven possible caves on the Red Planet.
Provided by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
Published: September 24, 2007 |
 | Using the Very Large Telescope, the gas giant's south pole is warmer than the rest of the planet.
Provided by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
Published: September 19, 2007 |
 | Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope have captured nearly a dozen galaxies, marking a major development in exploring the universe.
Provided by ESO, Garching, Germany
Published: September 18, 2007 |
 | Research indicates the Large Magellanic Cloud and Small Magellanic Cloud are recent arrivals to our galaxy.
Provided by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Published: September 17, 2007 |
 | Two NASA satellites have uncovered one of the most bizarre planet-mass objects ever found.
Provided by Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
Published: September 14, 2007 |
 | New images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope show the evolution of gas ejected from dying stars.
Provided by STScI, Baltimore, Maryland
Published: September 13, 2007 |
 | Scientists may have solved a discrepancy between the number of extremely small, faint galaxies predicted to exist near the Milky Way and the number actually observed.
Provided by the W. M. Keck Observatory, Mauna Kea, Hawaii
Published: September 12, 2007 |
 | NASA's twin rovers have survived a 2-month dust storm and are ready to continue their mission on the Red Planet's surface.
Provided by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
Published: September 11, 2007 |
 | On September 11, observers in South America, Antarctica, and the South Atlantic can witness a partial solar eclipse. By Laura Layton
Published: September 10, 2007 |
 | Observations using the Hubble Space Telescope and Spitzer Space Telescope uncover "building-block" galaxies.
Provided by ESA, Noordwijk, Netherlands
Published: September 7, 2007 |
 | Diane Mignogna will share her new Meade LX200R with her family.
By Erin Dolan
Published: September 6, 2007 |
 | Scientists believe they have found the parent object that produced the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
Provided by the Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado
Published: September 6, 2007 |
 | By comparing conditions on Earth to those on Titan, scientists have new insight on turbulence.
Provided by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Howard County, Maryland
Published: September 4, 2007 |
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