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Earth from Space: Ouarkziz Impact Crater
Crater in northwestern Algeria, formed by a meteoroid impact 70 million years ago
Tiny galaxy with a bright nebula
Hubble studies a small galaxy with a big, bright nebula on its outskirts.
Australia from Space – Outback fires
Satellite image shows dozens of fires blazing in a remote part of Western Australia.
Sparkling sphere of ancient stars
Globular star cluster Messier 55 contains some of the cosmos’ oldest stars.
Rogue stars sail in intergalactic space
“Hypervelocity” stars ejected from the Milky Way into the emptiness between beyond.
Do free-floating planets outnumber stars?
Planets wandering through space could outnumber stars by thousands to one.
Giant asteroid’s secrets revealed
NASA’s Dawn mission unlocks the history of Vesta, and finds it to be unique.
Light of an alien “super-Earth”
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope picks up the light of a distant water world.
VIDEO: Another trip around the Earth
More amazing short videos of our planet, looking down from the International Space Station.
The year ahead in space
Here are our Top 5 space things to look forward to in 2012.
