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Five Missions That Will Help Stop an Asteroid Hitting Earth

Posted in Science on 10th Oct, 2015
by Alex Muller

Millions of rocky objects have orbits that bring them near Earth, but we have only found about 13,000 of them.

Earth observations show how nitrogen may be detected on exoplanets, aiding search for life

Posted in Science on 6th Sep, 2015
by Alex Muller

Measuring nitrogen in the atmosphere of an exoplanet can be crucial to determining if it might be habitable.

There are probably 1 to 10 billion earthlike planets in the Milky Way

Posted in Science on 31st Aug, 2015
by Alex Muller

Researchers combine constraints on galaxy formation with planet formation models, yielding the Earth-like and giant planet formation histories of the Milky Way and the Universe.

Comet impacts may have cooked up a 'soup of life'

Posted in Science on 20th Aug, 2015
by Alex Muller

New results show how collisions between comets and planets can make molecules that are the essential building blocks of life.

NASA confirms the discovery of a rocky exoplanet just 21 light years away

Posted in Science on 1st Aug, 2015
by Alex Muller

Planets like this, known as super-Earths, are ubiquitous throughout the galaxy.