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Nov 6, 2017NASA scientists and engineers have conceived and plan to build a new instrument to study the composition of geysers spewing water vapor on Enceladus.
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Nov 5, 2017Scientists have found evidence showing that three-billion-year old volcanic rock found within the Earth's mantle had a different composition than modern ones. Their discovery may offer new information about the first one billion years of Earth's development and early origins of life.
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Nov 4, 2017Some exoplanets shine brighter than others in the search for life beyond the solar system.
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Nov 3, 2017New ALMA observations reveal emission from clouds of cold cosmic dust surrounding Proxima Centauri.
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Nov 2, 2017The Chicxulub asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs likely released far more climate-altering sulfur gas into the atmosphere than originally thought, according to new research.
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Nov 1, 2017A giant planet, which should not exist according to planet formation theory, has been discovered around a distant star.
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Oct 31, 2017Scientists working closely with amateur astronomers have spotted the dusty tails of six exocomets orbiting a faint star 800 light years from Earth.
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Oct 30, 2017Researchers based millions of kilometres from Mars have unveiled new evidence for how contemporary features are formed on the Red Planet.
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Oct 29, 2017Minerals containing water are widespread on Ceres, suggesting the dwarf planet may have had a global ocean in the past.
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Oct 28, 2017NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has found a blistering hot planet outside our solar system where it "snows" sunscreen.