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All Six Element Needed For Life as We Know It Have Now Been Found in The...
Saturn’s moon Encedalus sends out regular plumes of water vapor — as seen here as imaged in false color by the Cassini spacecraft. New research into Cassini data has detected the element phosphorus, a...
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Webb Telescope Finds No Signs of a Thick Atmosphere Around a Second...
The TRAPPIST-1 system, with its seven rocky planets orbiting close to their red dwarf Sun, is of great interest to planetary scientists and astrobiologists. Several early exoplanet James Webb Space...
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The Familiar, Yet So Different, Hydrocarbon Rivers of Titan
Images from the Cassini mission show river networks draining into lakes in Titan’s north polar region. False color was used to make the features more visible. (NASA/JPL/USGS There are three planets or...
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The Evolving Science of Technosignatures
Optical SETI searches for distant laser bursts as possible signs of technologial socieites in very far away solar systems. (SETI) The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) began decades ago...
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Getting To Know Rogue Planets
This artist’s concept shows an icy Earth-mass rogue planet drifting through space alone, without any relationship to a star. (NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center) In our Earthling minds, planets exist...
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The Moon Rush Is On. Are We on Earth Ready For That?
Researchers and policy-makers are homing in on sites for the Artemis Base Camp that feature long-duration access to sunlight, direct-to-Earth communication and gentle slopes, and also offer access to...
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After Seven Years Away Exploring an Asteroid, OSIRIS-REx is Landing Soon with...
A replica of the OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule descends under parachute during a dress rehearsal Aug. 30 in Utah. (NASA/Keegan Barber) Bits of pebbles and dust from the asteriod Bennu that were...
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A Real ET Discovery With Promise, Amid Some Other Quite Questionable Claims
This artist’s concept shows what exoplanet K2-18 b could look like based on new observation. The exoplanet, of a size between Earth and Neptune, orbits the cool dwarf star K2-18. A new investigation of...
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Preparing For The Habitable Worlds Observatory, Our Best Shot at Finding ET Life
Billions of exoplanets orbit their Suns in our galaxy and more than a few are likely to be habitable. But are any inhabited? The Habitable World Observatory is not being designed and developed to give...
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I had the pleasure of reporting and writing the Many Worlds column — sponsored by NASA’s NExSS initiative and the Lunar & Planetary Institute — for more than seven years, but the run came to an...
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