Category: Planetary Science
7 June 2013
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ScienceShot: A Momentous Crossing on Mars
The aged Opportunity rover has traversed a crucial geologic time billions of years ago
6 June 2013
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'Dust Traps' Help Create Planets
Protective vortex of gas allows planetary seeds to grow
5 June 2013
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Live Chat: Mission to Mars—With Special Guest Buzz Aldrin
Talk to experts in a Google Hangout about the challenges of sending humans to the Red Planet
31 May 2013
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ScienceShot: Iron From the Sky
Ancient Egyptian beads have extraterrestrial origin
29 May 2013
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ScienceShot: Venus, Doomed From the Start?
New research questions the notion that "Earth's Twin" once sported oceans and life
16 May 2013
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ScienceShot: Easy Hiking, and Biking, on Titan
First global topographic map of Saturn's big moon shows a subdued landscape
15 May 2013
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ScienceShot: Zipping Around Uranus and Neptune
The two giant worlds have only shallow winds
8 May 2013
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Live Chat: The Quest for Another Earth (Video)
Join a Google Hangout with experts about the search for exoplanets and alien life
12 March 2013
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Mars Was Habitable, but No Sign of Inhabitants
The Curiosity rover has found a once-livable environment but no organic matter lingering from former life
7 March 2013
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ScienceShot: Mars' Hidden Valleys Deeper Than Thought
Radar view of lava-covered channels on Red Planet also reveals their source
5 March 2013
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ScienceShot: Elements Rising Up From Europa's Ocean
Subsurface sea of Jupiter’s moon well connected with its surface, spectra suggest
28 February 2013
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ScienceShot: Birth of a Planet
Astronomers spot what may be first protoplanet caught in early stages of formation
20 February 2013
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ScienceShot: Moon-Sized Planet Orbits Sunlike Star
Space telescope spots smallest world yet found circling another star like our own
19 February 2013
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ScienceShot: Could Space Travel Make You Go Blind?
Even astronauts with perfect vision may need glasses when they return to Earth
15 February 2013
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ScienceShot: Looking for Life on Mars? Dig Deeper
Martian meteorite’s minerals deepen the puzzle of life on the red planet
15 February 2013
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Video: Was Siberian Meteor Blast a Warning of Things to Come?
Rain of cosmic debris will continue
4 February 2013
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ScienceShot: Some 'Super Earths' More Like Mini Neptunes
Distant giants won't evolve into rocky worlds
30 January 2013
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ScienceShot: Giving Birth at 10 Million Years Old
Aging star could still form planets
15 January 2013
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ScienceShot: Mars Rover Finds Watery Wonderland
Curiosity discovers clear signs of ancient water on red planet
10 January 2013
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Mysterious Planet May Be Cruising for a Bruising
Celestial fireworks predicted in a far flung star system
8 January 2013
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ScienceShot: Planets Orbit Dead Stars
Phenomenon may be glimpse of Earth's future
7 January 2013
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Earth-Sized Planets Are a Plentiful Bunch
One in six sunlike stars is orbited by a small world like ours
7 January 2013
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Mars Mission Could Turn Astronauts Into Couch Potatoes
Crew members aboard 520-day simulation became sluggish from isolation
3 January 2013
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ScienceShot: Signs of Water in Martian Meteorite
Space rock hints at Red Planet's liquid past
13 December 2012
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ScienceShot: A Preflight Checkup for Future Space Tourists
Space-trippers could face variety of ills
5 December 2012
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Video: Earth as a Glittering Black Marble
New satellite images reveal our planet’s nighttime glow in unprecedented detail
4 December 2012
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ScienceShot: One Last Crossing Before Interstellar Space?
Voyager 1 has yet another leg of its journey to complete before escaping the solar system
3 December 2012
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The First Signs of Ancient Life on Mars?
Curiosity rover has detected organic matter, but it may never have been alive
2 November 2012
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Curiosity Finds Methane on Mars, or Not
NASA's attempt to soothe the savage media disappoints
31 October 2012
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The Eternal Youth of Asteroid Vesta
The Dawn spacecraft reveals how the giant asteroid's blemishes are removed, but why aren't the rigors of space aging it?
17 October 2012
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ScienceShot: Earth's Ugly Twin
New alien planet comes close, but not quite, to being a habitable world
17 October 2012
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ScienceShot: Watching Volcanoes on a Distant Moon From the Comfort of Home
Earthbound telescopes keep an eye on Io's hotspots
15 October 2012
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ScienceShot: Compact Solar System Could Fit Inside Mercury's Orbit
All five planets orbit star in less than 10 days
11 October 2012
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Vesta: The Mini-Planet That Could Magnetize
A 4-billion-year-old meteorite reveals evidence that an asteroid had a dynamo-driven magnetic field
11 October 2012
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ScienceShot: Martian Meteorite Full of Bits of Black Glass
Scientists recover pieces of object seen falling last year
27 September 2012
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ScienceShot: Bingo! Ancient Rushing Water on Mars
Curiosity rover finds a textbook example of rocks deposited by lots of flowing water
25 September 2012
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ScienceShot: Europa's Water Buried Deep Under Icy Shell
Liquid water near jovian moon's surface likely rare, geologically short-lived
21 August 2012
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ScienceShot: Planet Swallowed Whole?
Lithium-rich star may have consumed one of its worlds
6 August 2012
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Curiosity Has Landed
Mars rover arrives safely, sends its first pictures to Earth
3 August 2012
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ScienceShot: Moon Formed From Head-On Collision
New models suggest that whatever struck Earth scored a direct hit
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