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After making its third and last Earth flyby in November 2009 to pick up extra speed, Rosetta will eventually arrive in the vicinity of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in May 2014.

Don Yeomans, the manager of NASA's Near Earth Object office shares the scientific realities of the celestial happenings in the year 2012.

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Cloud-like structures in the background above the Sun churn from the passage of magnetic ripples called Alfvén waves, which may be responsible for the ext...

Last shots taken by Terrain Camera (TC) of KAGUYA during its aneuvered falling to the Moon. (C)JAXA/SELENE

KAGUYA (SELENE) taking the lowest altitude (Perilune) shot by HDTV (telescopic camera.) (C)JAXA/NHK

This JPL video highlights Enceladus and explains some of the recent discoveries about this mysterious moon of Saturn. Enjoy!

According to a June 10 article in New Scientist, studies on the variable nature of planetary orbits have shown some possibilities of collisions in the future. (The very distant future, luckily for us.)

Due to the nature of Jupiter's massive gravitational pull on the inner planets, especially Mercury, the orbits are susceptible to incredible variances over time, and thousands of different scenarios have been plotted via computer models. In some of these scenarios, Earth switches orbits with Venus and in som