Astronomy and space in the news

Here are a few links to some interesting astronomy articles from (mostly) last year.

• Will an asteroid whack Mars, here?
• The importance of searching for small asteroids, here.
• The weird case of the Death Star Galaxy, here.
• A "nearby" star with 5 planets, here.
• Why a space probe was confused with a possible dangerous asteroid, here.
• Uncle Sam is going to Mars, here.
• Why the Moon makes us special, here.
• The case of the comet's disappearing tail, here.
• The little robots that could, here.
• Roving satellite photographs the dark side of Earth, here.
  
• More clues to life on Mars here.
• Large Earth like planet discovered orbiting a Red Dwarf star, here.
• Worlds in collision, here?