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| Five Steps Toward Future Exploration |
| Topic: Missions |
06/04/11 |
| The NASA Astrobiology Science & Technology for Exploring Planets (ASTEP) program has announced a set of new projects to develop and test technologies that will enable the astrobiological exploration of the Solar System. By exploring Earth's extreme environments, astrobiologists advance the search for life on other planets. |
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| Rage Against the Dying of the Light |
| Topic: Missions |
06/02/11 |
| Astronomers have found hundreds of planets orbiting far-distant stars, but the road to discovery has been rough, and often led to dead-ends. Geoff Marcy, a planet-hunting pioneer, stomped a few miles down this road at a recent exoplanet symposium. |
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| Second Earth-Sized Planet in the Kepler-10 System |
| Topic: New Planets |
05/26/11 |
| The Kepler Telescope team has confirmed a second planet orbiting the star Kepler-10. The existence of this planet was suspected previously, but new analytical techniques were needed to confirm its existence. |
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| Seeing the Planets for the Trees |
| Topic: Alien Life |
05/19/11 |
| A recent study says that a particular mathematical technique could be used to detect forests on extrasolar planets. |
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| Scheduling the Unknown |
| Topic: Moon to Mars |
05/16/11 |
| How can the exploration of a Canadian lake, using deep-water submersibles, help NASA plan for the human exploration of Mars? |
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| Setting Sight on a Single Star |
| Topic: Missions |
05/13/11 |
| NASA recently selected 20 small satellites to fly as auxiliary cargo aboard rockets that are planned to launch in 2011 and 2012. The 'CubeSats' include the ExoPlanetSat, which will aid in the search for Earth-like planets by monitoring a single star. |
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| Detecting Wandering Worlds That Host Life |
| Topic: Alien Life |
05/12/11 |
| Some planets that roam the galaxy without a star to call home still may be able to host life. Finding such rogue planets is difficult, but new research suggests these wandering worlds could be detected by their atmospheric auroras. |
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| A Water Ocean on Titan? |
| Topic: Titan |
05/05/11 |
| Oddities in the rotation of Saturn's largest moon Titan might add to growing evidence that it harbors an underground ocean, researchers suggest. |
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| Seeking Life´s Imprint in Shifting Desert Sand |
| Topic: Mars |
05/02/11 |
| From the deepest past to the present day, the deserts of Morocco provide a panorama of life´s history on Earth and give us insight for our investigations of Mars. |
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