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We Likely Wouldn’t See a Doomsday Asteroid Until it Was Too Late
How much warning will we really have if a Near Earth Asteroid (NEO) is about to hit Earth? The...
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Earth-Sized Alien Worlds Orbit One in Six Stars
Four years ago, NASA launched the Kepler space telescope in an attempt to learn just how common Earth-sized worlds...
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Titan Holds Clue to Faint Young Sun Paradox
Earth should have been an ice cube in the very early days of our solar system, when the sun...
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Bacterial Traces From 3.5 billion Years Ago Called Oldest Fossils
Scientists analyzing Australian rocks have discovered traces of bacteria that lived a record-breaking 3.49 billion years ago, a mere...
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Should We Expect Other Earth-like Planets at All?
This year has been a spectacular one for exoplanets. New discoveries and new insights have truly pushed the gateway...
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Meteor Offers Insight Into Solar System
An exploding meteor that blasted its fragments across California’s Gold Country in April has revealed rare evidence of its...
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NASA Crashes Twin Probes Into the Moon
NASA concluded its Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) moon mission by crashing two probes into the lunar surface...
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Scientists Search for Life Under Antarctic Ice
With the temperature at a balmy midsummer -17c, drilling has started in Antarctica in an attempt to find evidence...
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Earth Has a Couple of ‘Near’ Misses
Over the past couple of days, two asteroids ‘2012 XE54’ and ‘4179 Toutatis’ passed close to Earth. 4179 Toutatis,...
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Are There Planets Better at Supporting Life Than Earth?
There is, in this crazy world, one thing we know for sure: Our world is the world. Our planet...