"We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st." The blink of an eye.

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Get ready for one of the best meteor showers of the year! And with no Moon to hinder viewing this year, the 2010 Perseids should be a treat. This video, using the free astronomy-simulation software CELESTIA, shows you what to expect.

Get ready! One of the best shows in the summer sky, the annual Perseid meteor shower, is set to peak tonight and into the early morning hours on Friday. If you live in a relatively dark area, you can look to see as many as 75 meteors per hour (that's over one meteor per minute!). If you manage to get to a mountain-top, you could see as many as 108 per hour, according to astronomers.

Go outside tonight & tomorrow.

Previous reports of significant amounts of water on the moon may be all wet, says a new study of chlorine in Apollo moon rocks.

Fullerenes, or buckyballs, are carbon structures long thought to be likely features of the interstellar medium. Their presence in a young planetary nebula was a surprise to astronomers. (Courtesy: Cornell)

For 50 years, physicists have been hunting for the missing piece in the puzzle of the universe. At last, says Graham Farmelo, a sighting may not be too far away .

The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft took the first close-up images Saturday of asteroid 21 Lutetia, located between Mars and Jupiter.

The moon's shadow will envelop Easter Island on July 11 during a total solar eclipse, the first to cross the remote island in about 1,400 years.

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The animation shows Jupiter over the course of about 2.5 hours, with one exposure taken every five minutes. You can also watch Europa and Io, two of Jupiter’s big moons, orbiting the planet as well.

Astronomers have confirmed that an object in an image from 2008 — thought at the time to possibly be a direct image of a planet orbiting another star — is in fact a planet.

This June 4, 2010 picture shows the starry desert night over Camp Hansen at Marjah, in the Helmand province of Afghanistan. (AP Photo/The Virginian-Pilot, Hyunsoo Leo Kim)

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This is a awesome read, I wonder how close some of these theories are close or spot on. I'm convinced.