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Kamikaze comet ripples Saturn's ring
A collision between a comet and the planet's innermost ring in 1984 left the ring grooved like a record, Cassini spacecraft images suggestBreaking News - 12 October 2006Bizarre 'string of pearls' adorns Saturn
A row of alternating bright and dark patches stretches across the Ringed Planet and may be caused by alternating updrafts and downdrafts in the atmosphereBreaking News - 11 October 2006Comet compositions show striking differences
The two comets visited by NASA's Stardust and Deep Impact spacecraft are remarkably different in composition – ancient collisions may be to blameBreaking News - 11 October 2006Difficult atmosphere for finding aliens
Finding life on alien planets could be unexpectedly tough, because they may not have the oxygen-rich atmosphere usually taken as a signature of lifeNews - 11 October 2006Earth's wobble killed off mammal species
Mammalian species are known to last an average 2.5 million years before being snuffed out - and scientists may have discovered whyNews - 11 October 2006Space station's pointing gyroscope shut down
NASA turned off one of four gyros that keep the International Space Station pointed in the right direction after it began to shake inexplicablyBreaking News - 11 October 2006NASA resuscitates Hubble's main camera
More than two weeks after the Advanced Camera for Surveys shut itself down, all three of its camera-like channels are showing vital signsBreaking News - 10 October 2006
