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New Evidence Points to Oceans on Mars
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Jun 13, 2007 |
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Scientists have found new evidence to support the presence of large oceans on Mars in the past. Published in the June 14 issue of Nature, the research suggests that changes in Mars’ orientation with respec ...
Ulysses spacecraft data indicate Solar System shield lowering
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Sep 23, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Data from the joint ESA/NASA Ulysses mission show that the Sun has reduced its output of solar wind to the lowest levels since accurate readings have become available. This current state of ...
Comet probes reveal evidence of origin of life, scientists claim
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Aug 14, 2007 |
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Recent probes inside comets show it is overwhelmingly likely that life began in space, according to a new paper by Cardiff University scientists.
Jupiter and Saturn full of liquid metal helium
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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.
Voyager at 30: Looking Beyond and Within
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Sep 05, 2007 |
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A mission that was supposed to last just five years is celebrating its 30th anniversary this fall. Scientists continue to receive data from the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft as they approach interstellar space.
Earth dropped from NASA mission statement
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Jul 24, 2006 |
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NASA has reportedly eliminated the promise "to understand and protect our home planet" from its mission statement.
Team hopes to use new technology to search for ETs
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Jun 04, 2008 |
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A Johns Hopkins astronomer is a member of a team briefing fellow scientists about plans to use new technology to take advantage of recent, promising ideas on where to search for possible extraterrestrial intelligence ...
Scientist answers how Peruvian meteorite made it to Earth
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Mar 11, 2008 |
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It made news around the world: On Sept. 15, 2007, an object hurtled through the sky and crashed into the Peruvian countryside. Scientists dispatched to the site near the village of Carancas found a gaping ...
Longest lunar eclipse in 7 years expected
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Aug 21, 2007 |
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As August draws to an end, watchers of the night sky will be in for a treat. In the early morning hours of August 28, sky watchers across much of the world can look on as the Moon crosses in to the shadow of ...
Old Solar Cycle Returns
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Mar 28, 2008 |
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Solar Cycle 23, how can we miss you if you won't go away? Barely three months after forecasters announced the beginning of new Solar Cycle 24, old Solar Cycle 23 has returned. Actually, it never left. Read ...
Scientists present new results from Huygens probe
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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 ...
Mars explorer says we'll find life on other planets within 10 years
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Apr 21, 2009 |
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Within 10 years, we'll find life outside Earth -- that's the prediction of Peter Smith, the University of Arizona professor who led NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission.
Life elsewhere in Solar System could be different from life as we know it
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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 -- ...
ESA presents the sharpest ever satellite map of Earth
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May 11, 2007 |
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The most detailed portraits ever of the Earth's land surface have been created with ESA's Envisat environmental satellite. The portraits are the first products produced as part of the ESA-initiated GlobCover ...
Is a New Solar Cycle Beginning?
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Dec 17, 2007 |
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The solar physics community is abuzz this week. No, there haven't been any great eruptions or solar storms. The source of the excitement is a modest knot of magnetism that popped over the sun's eastern limb ...
