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Clear skies and water vapour found on alien exoplanet.
Astronomers using data from three of NASA’s space telescopes – Hubble, Spitzer and Kepler – have discovered clear skies and steamy water vapor…
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September 2014
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The mountains of Mars.
NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover has reached the Red Planet’s Mount Sharp, a Mount-Rainier-size mountain at the center of the vast Gale Crater and…
April 2014
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NASA’s finds first Earth-Size habitable world.
Using NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered the first Earth-size planet orbiting a star in the “habitable zone” — the range of…
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NASA discovers Saturn’s moon, Enceladus, has massive underground ocean of liquid water!
Life on Saturn’s moon has moved a lot closer! NASA’s Cassini spacecraft and Deep Space Network have uncovered evidence Saturn’s moon Enceladus harbors a…
February 2014
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The great bonanza of worlds.
NASA’s Kepler mission announced Wednesday the discovery of 715 new planets. These newly-verified worlds orbit 305 stars, revealing multiple-planet systems much like our…
December 2013
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When super-worlds get cloudy.
Scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have characterized the atmospheres of two of the most common type of planets in the Milky Way…
November 2013
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It’s full of stars… no, planets!
NASA is excited about the discovery of 833 new candidate planets by the Kepler team. Ten of these candidates are less than twice…
October 2013
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Gravity (2013), a film review by Mark R. Leeper.
In a spacesuit you can’t bite your fingernails. On a mission to repair the Hubble telescope, things go very wrong and two astronauts…
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Life on Titan… plastic based?
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has detected propylene, a chemical used to make food-storage containers, car bumpers and other consumer products, on Saturn’s moon Titan.…
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Cloud spotting on Kepler-7b.
Astronomers using data from NASA’s Kepler and Spitzer space telescopes have created the first cloud map of a planet beyond our solar system,…
September 2013
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NASA to Mars: Who (or ‘what’) is hiding the methane now?
Data from NASA’s Curiosity rover has revealed the Martian environment lacks methane. This is a surprise to researchers because previous data reported by…
July 2013
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Earth is not alone… there’s another blue planet.
Astronomers making visible-light observations with NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have deduced the actual color of a planet orbiting another star 63 light-years away.…