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Recently Discovered Exoplanet Evidently Has Rains of Pebbles
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Kepler Data Suggests Hundreds of Exoplanets, But NASA Holds Back Details
Kepler In Deep Space An artist's rendition of the Kepler space telescope, seen from its outpost in deep space. NASA Researchers have confirmed six new planets beyond our solar system, the prelude to...
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Video: NASA Planet Hunters Announce Smallest Exoplanet Ever Found, Just 560...
Kepler 10b NASA artist's concept of Kepler-10 from the surface of planet 10b. NASA A tiny world of molten rock, orbiting scorchingly close to its host star, is the smallest planet ever discovered...
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New Telescope To Hunt For Earth's Twin
CHEOPS Probe University of Bern/via ESA The Kepler space telescope (and several observatories on the ground) have pinpointed a plenitude of planets around other stars, but astronomers' knowledge of...
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Humans tend to imagine things we don't fully understand in our own image: for instance, we anthropomorphize God, most sci-fi movie aliens are some variation of a biped with…
View ArticleKepler Data Suggests Hundreds of Exoplanets, But NASA Holds Back Details
Researchers have confirmed six new planets beyond our solar system, the prelude to an avalanche of exoplanet discoveries soon to cascade from NASA's Kepler mission. There's…
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A tiny world of molten rock, orbiting scorchingly close to its host star, is the smallest planet ever discovered outside our solar system, NASA announced today. And it's…
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The Kepler space telescope (and several observatories on the ground) have pinpointed a plenitude of planets around other stars, but astronomers' knowledge of them remains fuzzy. A new European mission...
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'Project Blue' Aims To Take The First Snapshot Of A Twin Earth
Space Seeking a distant pale blue dot We know that there are multitudes of exoplanets scattered throughout the universe, but to date the only planets that we have been able to take a picture of are in...
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World's Biggest Radio Telescope Joins The Search For Alien Life
Space China's 'FAST' telescope lends an ear to Yuri Milner's Breakthrough Listen project A collaboration between National Astronomical Observatories of China (NAOC) and Breakthrough Listen brings the...
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A Look Inside The Tesla Factory And A Real-Life Remembrall
Science Our favorite images of the week Our ten favorite images from this week in science, technology, and health news.
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Powerful New Camera Will Observe How First Stars Formed
Space The fastest, largest observations of the Universe, ever Astronomers plan to take a wide-angle view through the interstellar gas of the Universe and observe how the first stars formed.
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World's Biggest Alien-Hunting Project Takes Aim At Mysterious Star
Space If there's a megastructure around Tabby's Star, this is our best shot at hearing the aliens that built it Today scientists will start searching for hypothetical aliens using the most powerful...
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After 20 Years, NASA Finally Finished Building The James Webb Space Telescope
Space Now it's ready for the final tests before launch in 2018 NASA engineers have announced that construction of the James Webb Telescope (JWST) is finally complete and ready for testing before its...
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The silliest names scientists have given very serious telescopes
Science Ranked! Scientists spend their lives in the pursuit of truth, exploring the secrets of the universe with the help of expensive, sophisticated scientific instruments. And…
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Seven totally safe science discussion topics for Thanksgiving dinner
Science So you don't have to talk about politics, religion, or your new tattoo Seven neutral Thanksgiving discussion topics.
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How to build a DIY replica of Galileo's telescope
DIY Stargaze like the pioneering astronomer Build a DIY replica of Galileo's telescope to stargaze like the pioneering astronomer did.
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Space Shots: The Universe's Best Images
Space A gallery of photos, visualizations, and other pictures of outer space. Photos, visualizations, and other pictures of outer space, updated almost daily by the editors of Popular Science… Photos,...
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'Project Blue' Aims To Take The First Snapshot Of A Twin Earth
Space Seeking a distant pale blue dot We know that there are multitudes of exoplanets scattered throughout the universe, but to date the only planets that we have been able to take a picture of are in...
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World's Biggest Radio Telescope Joins The Search For Alien Life
Space China's 'FAST' telescope lends an ear to Yuri Milner's Breakthrough Listen project A collaboration between National Astronomical Observatories of China (NAOC) and Breakthrough Listen brings the...
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