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The Chinese lunar probe Chang'e 1 crashes into the moon in what Beijing describes as a controlled collision.

Helix nebula, two light-years wide, gazes at us like the eye of God.

Theoretical calculations done by astrophysicists at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem led by Professor Avishai Dekel, show that low mass galaxies can form when intergalactic gas streams into dark matter haloes and not by intergalactic gas heated by a virial shock to millions of degrees.

The fireball that blazed across the Texas sky and sparked numerous weekend calls to law enforcement agencies now can be considered an identified flying object.

This month you'll have an opportunity to see all five naked-eye planets – but not all at once. Two of them are evening objects, while the other three are clustered together low in the east-southeast sky deep in the dawn twilight.

As astronomers become more adept at hunting for, and finding, exoplanets orbiting stars beyond the Solar System, international astronomers have figured out just what we should be looking for, using the increasingly sophisticated technologies being developed.

AP - Debris from this week's satellite collision could circle Earth for up to 10,000 years, threatening many other satellites in an already-crowded area, Russia's Mission Control chief said Friday.

Two communications satellites collided Tuesday in an unprecedented orbital accident that would have been visible from the Earth.

In a feat that until recently was thought impossible, a team of scientists have captured the first ever visible-light image of a planet orbiting another star.

Scientists have discovered methane in Mars' atmosphere, raising the possibility that life might exist on the planet.