Feature Stories
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Jan 16, 2017Extremely low atmospheric pressures not a game changer for life.
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Jan 5, 2017Russian and U.S. scientists explore mission to Venus' sulfur clouds to look for life.
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Jan 1, 2017Was Pluto’s frozen heart formed in an ancient impact basin and was it once closer to the north pole? And does the icy heart conceal a subsurface ocean?
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Dec 31, 2016Chemicals found in Martian rocks by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover suggest the Red Planet once had more oxygen in its atmosphere than it does now.
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Dec 30, 2016Saturn's icy moon has an alkaline ocean, a promising sign of geochemical activity.
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Dec 29, 2016An international team of astronomers has discovered and confirmed a treasure trove of new worlds using NASA’s Kepler spacecraft on its K2 mission.
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Dec 28, 2016Astronomers using the TRAPPIST telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory have discovered three planets orbiting an ultracool dwarf star just 40 light-years from Earth.
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Dec 27, 2016In the race to discover a proposed ninth planet in our Solar System, astronomers have observed several never-before-seen objects at extreme distances from the Sun in our Solar System.
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Dec 26, 2016Ingredients regarded as crucial for the origin of life on Earth have been discovered at the comet that ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft has been probing for almost two years.
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Dec 25, 2016Chimney-like mineral structures on the seafloor could have helped create the RNA molecules that gave rise to life on Earth.