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
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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” —
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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
Read MoreThe 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Read MoreNASA 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
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