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Hubble takes you into the Carina Pillars, and then the helix Nebula.

NASA's twin Grail spacecraft NASA's twin GRAIL spacecraft (named Ebb and Flow) have delivered their first video footage of the far side of our rocky companion.

The mission is designed to determine the structure of the lunar interior and to advance understanding of the thermal evolution of the Moon.

This super image of the Red Planet was used by putting together images taken by European Space Agency's Rosetta probe as it passed by Mars on the way to a comet.

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Weird Science Hero Michio Kaku on the search for Earth's twin.

Astronomers have identified two roasted Earth-size planets that survived being engulfed by a swollen dying star.

The planets are the burned-out remnants of what were once giant Jupiter-like worlds, scientists believe.

The discovery provides a sobering reminder of what lies in store for the Earth billions of years from now.

There's nothing like a glorious sunset to make you feel like you are in another world - especially if it's green.

Watching the sun go down on the planet Osiris would be a "truly alien" experience, according to British astrophysicist Professor Frederic Pont.

Instead of the familiar orange, scarlet and crimson hues of a sunset on Earth, one would be treated to a palette of blues, greens and browns.

This video shows NASA's defunctUpper Atmosphere Research Satellite taken just days before the huge spacecraft fell to Earth in late-September.

Veteran astrophotographer ThierryLegault used a 14-inch telescope equipped with a camera to record the video from Northern France.

A rocky planet virtually identical in size to the Earth has been discovered orbiting a distant Sun-like star.

It is the first time such an Earth twin in another solar system has been detected.

Although the planet, Kepler-20f could have a thick water-vapour atmosphere, its surface is believed to be too hot for life.

A second planet in the same system, Kepler-20e, is only slightly smaller than Earth and even hotter.

Astronomers have taken a dramatic snapshot of one of the brightest galaxies in the sky, revealing its striking beauty in unprecedented detail.

NGC 253 is a spiral galaxy 11.5 million light years away in the constellation of Sculptor.
Also known as the "Silver Coin" or "Silver Dollar" galaxy, it is peppered with hot young stars which have just ignited.

Radiation from these "stellar nurseries" makes the surrounding hydrogen gas glow brightly.

The new image of NGC 253 was taken with the European Southern Observatory's 2.6 metre VLT Survey Telescope (VST), which has an exceptionally wide field of view.

VST, located at Paranal on a mountain top in Chile's Atacama desert, is the largest telescope in the world designed exclusively to survey the sky in visible light.
It is the newest telescope at the Paranal observatory, which also houses the Very Large Telescope array of four eight-metre telescopes.

To extract samples from wily comets, which have just a millionth of Earth's gravitational pull, a harpoon- or ballista-style device may be the best option.

To test the idea, NASA engineers have constructed a six-foot-wide harpoon to whack rock samples in a laboratory.