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Mont-Tremblant (Quebec), August 3, 2010 – The Canadian Space Agency (CSA), Station Mont-Tremblant and the Laval Amateur Astronomy Club are once again joining forces to bring you a festive programme for the 15^th...

26 May 2010 - NASA Orbiter Penetrates Mysteries of Martian Ice Cap
Data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have helped scientists solve a pair of mysteries dating back four decades and provided new information about climate change on the Red Planet.

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NEOWISE principal investigator Amy Mainzer describes the ongoing tally of space rocks and comets amassed by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. WISE is a NASA-funded Explorer Mission that will provide a vast storehouse of knowledge about the solar system, the Milky Way, and the Universe. Among the objects WISE will study are...

This week, astronomers have gathered in the balmy city of Miami for the 216th meeting of the American Astronomical Society meeting. There are some interesting Chandra results – the new image of N49 and the latest on the black hole in Andromeda...

24 May 2010 - New Horizons Update New Horizons is speeding through an ocean of space among the giant planets and the nearly 2.5 billion-mile expanse of the middle solar system. Onboard our spacecraft, all systems are "go" and we continue to speed outward at nearly a million miles per day. Source