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Space telescopes launching in 2017 and 2018 will mean a lot more exoplanet discoveries

Posted in Science on 25th Nov, 2015
by Alex Muller

New space telescopes will be put up over the next few years to search for more planets outside our solar system and analyze their atmospheres.

Falling Phobos will eventually put a ring around Mars

Posted in Science on 23rd Nov, 2015
by Alex Muller

Eventually, in 20 to 40 million years, the dust-coated pile of rubble could completely fall apart from all the stress.

Mars 2020 rover may have a little flying helper drone

Posted in Science on 21st Nov, 2015
by Alex Muller

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is designing a helicopter-like drone that could scope out the landscape ahead of the Mars 2020 rover.

NASA's chemical 'laptop' would help find life on other planets

Posted in Hardware on 18th Nov, 2015
by Alex Muller

NASA's newly tested Chemical Laptop is the first device built to detect amino acids and fatty acids (the telltale signs of life as we know it) on other worlds.

What is interplanetary dust and can it spread the ingredients of life?

Posted in Science on 17th Nov, 2015
by Alex Muller

NASA reported that a cloud of dust was surrounding Mars high above its atmosphere. They ruled out Mars itself and its moons Phobos and Deimos as the sources of the dust.