Planets
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So many ‘Earths’
A new analysis suggests humans are not alone in the universe. Our galaxy alone may host billions of Earth-like planets, ones able to support life as we know it.
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Scratching the Martian surface
What’s Mars made of? Volcanic rock, glassy particles and a poisonous rocket-fuel chemical, among other things. That’s the latest from tests by NASA’s Curiosity rover.
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Seeing the moon’s water
Rocky details of our moon can be gleaned without the aid of visiting astronauts. The latest example: An orbiting spacecraft may have just spotted water locked within surface rocks.
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Out-of-this-world atmospheres
Light from a distant, giant world offers clues to the gases in its atmosphere.
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Home on the moon
Astronomers say rocky moons orbiting distant planets might support alien life.
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Ice on Mercury
MESSENGER spacecraft provides evidence for frozen water on planet closest to sun.
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A diamond planet?
Distant, carbon-rich world could contain one-third its weight in gems that are relatively rare on Earth.
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New planetary neighbor
Nearest star system has a world that's Earthly in size, but too hot for human visitors.
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Curiosity lands on Mars!
NASA successfully delivered a $2.5 billion robotic vehicle to Mars, one that will explore for signs that the planet might once have hosted life
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Worlds beyond the solar system
Planet hunters have found hundreds of exoplanets, but none just like Earth.
