Editing 1995 in science (section)

==Astronomy and space exploration==
* February – [[Project Phoenix (SETI)|Project Phoenix]] begins looking for extraterrestrial transmissions using the [[Parkes Observatory]] [[radio telescope]] in [[New South Wales]], Australia, the largest telescope in the [[Southern Hemisphere]].
* February 8 – [[Asteroid]] [[6349 Acapulco]] is discovered by [[Masahiro Koishikawa]].
* March 22 – Cosmonaut [[Valeri Polyakov]] returns after setting a record for 438 days in [[Outer space|space]].
* July 23 – [[Comet Hale–Bopp]] is discovered by [[Alan Hale (astronomer)|Alan Hale]] and [[Thomas Bopp]] independently.
* October 6 – [[51 Pegasi b]]: [[Didier Queloz]] and [[Michel Mayor]] of the [[University of Geneva]] at the [[Observatoire de Haute-Provence]] announce the first definitive detection of an [[extrasolar planet]] orbiting an ordinary [[main sequence]] star ([[51 Pegasi]])<ref>{{cite journal|author1=Mayor, Michael |author2=Queloz, Didier |title=A Jupiter-mass companion to a solar-type star|journal=[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]|volume=378|issue=6555|year=1995|pages=355–359|doi=10.1038/378355a0|bibcode=1995Natur.378..355M|s2cid=4339201 }}</ref> and the first "[[hot Jupiter]]".
* December 7 – NASA's ''[[Galileo (spacecraft)#Galileo entry probe|Galileo Probe]]'' enters [[Jupiter]]'s atmosphere.
* December 18 - 28 Hubble observes its first deep field
* The "Big Ear" at the [[Ohio State University Radio Observatory]] ends its full-time [[search for extraterrestrial intelligence]] radio survey, having run continuously for 22 years, beginning in [[1973 in science|1973]].
* [[Richard P. Binzel]] devises the original of what will become the [[Torino Scale]] for categorizing the impact hazard associated with [[near-Earth object]]s.<ref>"A Near-Earth Object Hazard Index" presented at a [[United Nations]] conference and published in its proceedings, ''[[Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences]]'', '''822''' (1997).</ref>
* The first [[brown dwarf]] – [[Teide 1]] – is discovered.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2009-174|title=Spitzer Telescope Observes Baby Brown Dwarf|website=[[Jet Propulsion Laboratory]] }}</ref>