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Titan's surface organics surpass oil reserves on Earth
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 13, 2008 |
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Saturn’s orange moon Titan has hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth, according to new Cassini data. The hydrocarbons rain from the sky, collecting ...
Cassini Images Bizarre Hexagon on Saturn
Mar 27, 2007 |
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An odd, six-sided, honeycomb-shaped feature circling the entire north pole of Saturn has captured the interest of scientists with NASA's Cassini mission.
A new era in search for 'sister Earths'?
Jul 25, 2008 |
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Research presented at a recent astronomical conference is being hailed as ushering in a new era in the search for Earth-like planets by showing that they are more numerous than previously thought and that ...
Hubble directly observes planet orbiting Fomalhaut
Nov 13, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Estimated to be no more than three times Jupiter's mass, the planet, called Fomalhaut b, orbits the bright southern star Fomalhaut, located 25 light-years away in the constellation Piscis ...
Astronomers discover scaled-down Jupiter and Saturn in a faraway solar system like our own
Feb 14, 2008 |
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An international team of astronomers has discovered two planets that resemble smaller versions of Jupiter and Saturn in a solar system nearly 5,000 light years away. The find suggests that our galaxy hosts ...
Jupiter and Saturn full of liquid metal helium
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 06, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A strange, metal brew lies buried deep within Jupiter and Saturn, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, and in London.
Polluted Dead Star Indicates Planets Like Earth May Have Formed Around Other Stars, Astronomers Report
Aug 17, 2007 |
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The chemical fingerprint of a burned-out star indicates that Earth-like planets may not be rare in the universe and could give clues to what our solar system will look like when our sun dies and becomes a ...
Scientists present new results from Huygens probe
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 04, 2007 |
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Today, two and a half years after the historic landing of ESA’s Huygens probe on Titan, a new set of results on Saturn’s largest moon is ready to be presented. Titan, as seen through the eyes of Huygens still ...
A trio of super-Earths
Jun 16, 2008 |
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Today, at an international conference, a team of European astronomers announced a remarkable breakthrough in the field of extra-solar planets. Using the HARPS instrument at the ESO La Silla Observatory, they ...
Life elsewhere in Solar System could be different from life as we know it
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 06, 2007 |
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The search for life elsewhere in the solar system and beyond should include efforts to detect what scientists sometimes refer to as "weird" life -- that is, life with an alternative biochemistry to that of life on Earth -- ...
Return to Europa: A closer look is possible
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 14, 2007 |
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Jupiter’s moon Europa is just as far away as ever, but new research is bringing scientists closer to being able to explore its tantalizing ice-covered ocean and determine its potential for harboring life.
Extremophile Hunt Begins
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Feb 08, 2008 |
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A team of scientists has just left the country to explore a very strange lake in Antarctica; it is filled with, essentially, extra-strength laundry detergent. No, the researchers haven't spilled coffee on ...
When seeing IS believing
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 02, 2008 |
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New research published in the journal Science explains why individuals seek to find and impose order on an unruly world through superstition, rituals and conspiratorial explanations by linking a loss of control to indivi ...
Scientists explain intriguing phenomenon on Saturn's moon
Feb 22, 2008 |
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An enormous plume of dust and water spurts violently into space from the south pole of Enceladus, Saturn's sixth-largest moon. This raging eruption has intrigued scientists ever since the Cassini spacecraft ...
Scientist Explains Why Jupiter's Moon Europa Could Have Energetic Liquid Oceans
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 12, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists used to think that Jupiter and its moons - and most other bodies orbiting far from the Sun - were cold, icy, and probably barren. When the Voyager spacecraft flew by in the late ...
