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Here's What It's Like to Be the Planetary Protection Officer at NASA
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John Rummel, a biology professor at East Carolina University, reflects on his experiences as NASA's planetary protection officer, a job that requires a lot...
John Rummel, a biology professor at East Carolina University, reflects on his experiences as NASA's planetary protection officer, a job that requires a lot of science, but no alien combat.
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How Astronomers Use Eclipses to Discover Alien Worlds
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Imagine you attached keen instruments to a telescope and you rocketed a few light-years away from the solar system. And instead of observing the sun-moon eclipse, you stared at the sun as...
Imagine you attached keen instruments to a telescope and you rocketed a few light-years away from the solar system. And instead of observing the sun-moon eclipse, you stared at the sun as the Earth meandered in its orbit.
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Notes from Mars 160: Return to Earth
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Mars 160 crewmember Paul Knightly is chronicling life and science on The Mars Society's Twin Desert-Arctic Analog simulation. Here's his fifth and final post from the Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station, in the Canadian...
Mars 160 crewmember Paul Knightly is chronicling life and science on The Mars Society's Twin Desert-Arctic Analog simulation. Here's his fifth and final post from the Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station, in the Canadian arctic.
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Astrophysicists Predict Earth-Like Planet in Star System Only 16 Light Years Away
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Astrophysicists at the University of Texas at Arlington have predicted that an Earth-like planet may be lurking in a star system just 16 light...
Astrophysicists at the University of Texas at Arlington have predicted that an Earth-like planet may be lurking in a star system just 16 light years away. The team investigated the star system Gliese 832 for additional exoplanets residing between the...
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Astrophysicists predict Earth-like planet in star system only 16 light years away
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Astrophysicists have predicted that an Earth-like planet may be lurking in a star system just 16 light years away. The team investigated the star...
Astrophysicists have predicted that an Earth-like planet may be lurking in a star system just 16 light years away. The team investigated the star system Gliese 832 for additional exoplanets residing between the two currently known alien worlds in this...
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TRAPPIST-1 Planets May Be Twice As Old As Earth
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Life has had a long time to potentially get a foothold on the rocky planets circling the tiny, dim star TRAPPIST-1, a new study suggests.
Life has had a long time to potentially get a foothold on the rocky planets circling the tiny, dim star TRAPPIST-1, a new study suggests.
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Four Earth-sized planets detected orbiting the nearest sun-like star
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Astronomers have discovered four Earth-sized planets orbiting the nearest sun-like star, tau Ceti, which is about 12 light years away and visible to the naked eye. These planets have masses...
Astronomers have discovered four Earth-sized planets orbiting the nearest sun-like star, tau Ceti, which is about 12 light years away and visible to the naked eye. These planets have masses as low as 1.7 Earth mass, making them among the...
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Сould life begin in oil?
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Paul Bracher, Ph.D., assistant professor in the department of chemistry at Saint Louis University, and his research team have been awarded a three-year $597,380 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study what life might look like...
Paul Bracher, Ph.D., assistant professor in the department of chemistry at Saint Louis University, and his research team have been awarded a three-year $597,380 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study what life might look like on other...
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Tidally-Locked Planets More Common than Previously Thought, Astronomer Says
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Dr. Rory Barnes, an assistant professor in the Department of Astronomy and Astrobiology Program at the University of...
Dr. Rory Barnes, an assistant professor in the Department of Astronomy and Astrobiology Program at the University of Washington, arrived at this finding by questioning the long-held assumption that only those stars that are much smaller and dimmer than our...
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Mars 2020 mission to use smart methods to seek signs of past life
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NASA's Mars 2020 mission, which will look for signs of past life on Mars, will use smart methods originally developed to find...
NASA's Mars 2020 mission, which will look for signs of past life on Mars, will use smart methods originally developed to find the oldest life on Earth, according the mission's Deputy Project Scientist, Dr Ken Williford. The 2020 mission builds...
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Online campaign against invasive plants
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Neophytes – invasive plants that are alien to the region – are a huge burden on the public purse. The ETH spin-off "In-Finitude" has set up a new online platform right on time for the growing season. This...
Neophytes – invasive plants that are alien to the region – are a huge burden on the public purse. The ETH spin-off "In-Finitude" has set up a new online platform right on time for the growing season. This displays the...
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Tidally Locked Exoplanets May Be More Common than Previously Thought
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Many exoplanets to be found by coming high-powered telescopes will probably be tidally locked — with...
Many exoplanets to be found by coming high-powered telescopes will probably be tidally locked — with one side permanently facing their host star — according to new research by astronomer Rory Barnes of the University of Washington.Barnes, a UW assistant...
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