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Dec 22, 2018NASA's InSight lander is due to set its first science instrument on Mars in the coming days. But engineers here on Earth already saw it happen - last week.
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Dec 21, 2018Wendy Panero, professor of earth sciences at The Ohio State University, has developed a new way of thinking about a planet's habitability. What if, she wondered, the answer to habitability lies within the way rocks and water interact?
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Dec 20, 2018In their search for life in solar systems near and far, researchers have often accepted the presence of oxygen in a planet’s atmosphere as the surest sign that life may be present there. A new Johns Hopkins study, however, recommends a reconsideration of that rule
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Dec 19, 2018About 2.6 million years ago, an oddly bright light arrived in the prehistoric sky and lingered there for weeks or months.
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Dec 18, 2018New NASA research confirms that Saturn is losing its iconic rings at the maximum rate estimated from Voyager 1 & 2 observations made decades ago.
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Dec 17, 2018Outer solar system experts find 'far out there' dwarf planet.
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Dec 16, 2018Astrophysicists discover a large population of potential young planets in distant solar systems.
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Dec 15, 2018Astronomers have detected a bright X-ray outburst from a star in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a nearby galaxy almost 200,000 light years from Earth.
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Dec 14, 2018Fishermen would be puzzled if they netted only big and little fish, but few medium-sized fish. Astronomers likewise have been perplexed in conducting a census of star-hugging extrasolar planets.
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Dec 13, 2018Recently analyzed data from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has revealed water locked inside the clays that make up its scientific target, the asteroid Bennu.