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The search for more Earth-like planets ramps up

Posted in Science on 27th Apr, 2015
by Alex Muller

A new collaboration aims to bring separate telescopes together into a family, united by the single goal of seeking habitable worlds.

NASA assembles unprecedented scientific team to find out if we are all alone

Posted in Science on 22nd Apr, 2015
by Alex Muller

NASA wants to find life outside the solar system and are launching an interdisciplinary effort to search for extraterrestrial life.

Most powerful space telescope ever to launch in 2018

Posted in Science on 22nd Apr, 2015
by Alex Muller

As the Hubble Telescope celebrates 25 years in space this week, NASA is building an even more powerful tool to look deeper into the universe than ever before.

Evidence of liquid water found on Mars

Posted in Science on 14th Apr, 2015
by Alex Muller

Mars should be too cold to support liquid water at the surface, but salts in the soil lower its freezing point, allowing brine to form.

Extra terrestrial life in our solar system?

Posted in Science on 12th Apr, 2015
by Alex Muller

At least ten planets, moons and dwarf planets have liquid oceans in our solar system and they may have at least microbial life.