Is Mars too dry for life?
Posted on February 7, 2012, at 6:20 AMMineral samples suggest the Red Planet has been left hopelessly parched by a "super-drought" millions of years in the making
Why we'll never find another planet like Earth
Posted on February 3, 2012, at 1:56 PMIt doesn't matter how hard NASA looks, says Mark Fischetti at Scientific American. Until it identifies another planet with plants, Earth remains stubbornly unique
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A massive solar storm's 'spectacular' aurora borealis
Posted on January 30, 2012, at 4:24 PMWhen the sun spits out solar flares, they can disrupt electronics, interrupt air travel — and dazzle stargazers with "astounding" Northern Lights
The 'strongest solar storm since 2005': A guide
Posted on January 24, 2012, at 1:40 PMA massive eruption from the sun's surface has Earth primed for a close encounter with a powerful solar flare
The groundbreaking plan to photograph a black hole
Posted on January 19, 2012, at 12:58 PMScientists want to build an enormous "virtual telescope" capable of taking a picture of a massive black hole 26,000 light years away
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The hunt for a real-life Avatar: Will we find life on another planet's moons?
Posted on January 10, 2012, at 6:20 AMThe Hunt for Exomoons with Kepler program will extend the space telescope's planet-hunting capabilities and begin the search for a hospitable Pandora
2011's top mysteries of space
Posted on December 29, 2011, at 11:38 AMBetween a giant planet made of diamond and a massive stellar explosion that shone with the light of a trillion suns, this was quite a year for stargazers
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Did NASA spot an alien spaceship near Mercury?
Posted on December 9, 2011, at 2:25 PMA massive flying object flashes near the planet and then vanishes — sending UFO enthusiasts into a frenzy
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Discovered: The first habitable 'Earth-like' planet
Posted on December 6, 2011, at 11:15 AMNASA's Kepler telescope makes a startling, exciting find: An alien world eerily similar to our own, right down to the pleasant summer temperature
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Space worms: The key to human survival on Mars?
Posted on December 2, 2011, at 4:22 PMA normally Earthbound wriggler could become the interstellar version of a canary in a coal mine
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The astronaut who played baseball all by himself
Posted on December 1, 2011, at 1:42 PMNo team? No sweat — at least for spaceman Satoshi Furukawa, who pitches, bats, fields, and floats all by his lonesome
Why can't we find aliens?
Posted on November 29, 2011, at 5:20 PMSure, we haven't successfully phoned E.T. yet, says Slate's Chris Wilson. But let's not give up too easily
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Can a 'killer' solar flare really destroy Earth?
Posted on November 16, 2011, at 6:50 AMA few 2012 doomsayers think the sun will fry our planet to a crisp
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The 'mesmerizing' view of Earth from an orbiting space station
Posted on November 14, 2011, at 11:29 AMA gorgeous new timelapse video lets you virtually soar above our planet, gazing at the shimmering cities and violent storms miles below
The White House vs. UFO believers
Posted on November 8, 2011, at 1:41 PMMore than 17,000 Americans demand that Team Obama tell the nation exactly what it knows about aliens — and the administration obliges
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The giant asteroid that's zipping unnervingly close to Earth
Posted on November 3, 2011, at 2:35 PMA space rock the size of an aircraft carrier will zoom by our planet on Tuesday — our closest brush with astronomical catastrophe in decades
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