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A New study casts doubt on the Mars valley water formation theory

Posted in Science on 5th Sep, 2015
by Alex Muller

During the period in which the distinctive valleys supposedly formed, the Martian atmosphere may have already been too depleted to maintain the free-running water.

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.

Planetoid a billion miles beyond Pluto selected as New Horizons' next destination

Posted in Science on 30th Aug, 2015
by Alex Muller

NASA has selected the next potential destination for the unmanned spacecraft, a planetoid called 2014 MU69.

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.

Scientists Find Evidence for Ancient Lake in Meridiani Planum on Mars

Posted in Science on 13th Aug, 2015
by Alex Muller

Evidence of an ancient lake that likely represents some of the last potentially habitable surface water ever to exist on the Red Planet.