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Data can be analysed to determine the composition of clouds on exoplanets
Posted in Science on 4th Mar, 2015
by Alex Muller
Data from Kepler space observatory can be used to determine the types of clouds on planets that orbit other stars, known as exoplanets.
Giant Asteroid Collision May Have Radically Transformed Mars
Posted in Science on 3rd Mar, 2015
by Alex Muller
A new study suggests that Mars was once hit by an asteroid so large that it melted nearly half of the planets surface.
The first people on Mars could be in for a serious case of jet lag
Posted in Science on 28th Feb, 2015
by Alex Muller
Sleep scientists now worry that our Earthly circadian rhythms could be one more major headache for the first humans on Mars.
Mars Express images help decipher the geological history of the Red Planet
Posted in Science on 24th Feb, 2015
by Alex Muller
ESAs Mars Express orbiter has provided a fresh look at a region believed to be hiding large volumes of water ice just beneath the surface.
An alien star system buzzed past the Sun 70,000 years ago
Posted in Science on 18th Feb, 2015
by Alex Muller
An alien star passed through our Solar System just 70,000 years ago, astronomers have announced. No other star is known to have approached this close to us.