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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.
A new study challenges assumptions about the origins of Earth's water
Posted in Science on 15th Nov, 2015
by Alex Muller
If the new hypothesis is correct, it could mean better prospects of finding other rock-and-ocean worlds throughout the galaxy.
Mars atmosphere 'eroded by Sun activity'
Posted in Science on 6th Nov, 2015
by Alex Muller
Scientists think they are getting closer to explaining precisely how Mars lost much of its atmosphere.
Most Earth-like worlds have yet to be born, says new NASA study
Posted in Science on 21st Oct, 2015
by Alex Muller
There should already be 1 billion Earth-sized worlds in the Milky Way galaxy. That estimate skyrockets when you include the other 100 billion galaxies in the observable universe.
Aliens or not, there's much to discover in the new Kepler data
Posted in Featured, Science on 19th Oct, 2015
by Alex Muller
The internet has worked itself into a frenzy over the possibility that weve found an alien mega-structure.