Category: Planetary Science
26 July 2012
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ScienceShot: For Life's Evolution, Stellar Chemistry Matters
The chemical composition of stars may help determine how long planets are suitable for life
25 July 2012
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On the Same Plane
Planetary orbits in distant solar system aligned with star's rotation
17 July 2012
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ScienceShot: Jupiter's Blistering Fate
In a few billion years, our largest planet will begin to resemble some alien worlds
27 June 2012
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ScienceShot: Weighing an Alien Planet
Poison gas ferrets out the properties of another world
21 June 2012
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ScienceShot: Planetary Roommates Are an Odd Couple
Astronomers spy two very different worlds locked in close orbit
14 June 2012
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Brown Dwarfs Being Gobbled Up by Parent Stars
Paucity of "failed stars" foreshadows fates of Mercury and Venus
13 June 2012
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ScienceShot: Alien Earths Have Been Around for a While
Habitable planets may have formed billions of years before ours did
11 June 2012
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ScienceShot: Pummeling the Red Planet
New analysis reveals at least 635,000 craters on Mars
6 June 2012
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Pluto's Moons Offer Hints of Alien Worlds
Distant satellites may reveal orbits of planets circling double stars
24 May 2012
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ScienceShot: Tippy-Top Target for Next Mars Rover
Mysterious rocks atop Mount Sharp could be volcanic
10 May 2012
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ScienceShot: Asteroid Vesta As a Failed Planet
Dawn spacecraft sheds new light on oddball asteroid
7 May 2012
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ScienceShot: Hot Jupiters Are Loners
Gas giants orbiting next to their suns have no close planetary neighbors
18 April 2012
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ScienceShot: Jupiter, Born Too Late?
Kepler finds tentative evidence that older stars have larger gas giants
13 April 2012
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ScienceShot: Hubble Spots Auroras on Uranus
Atmospheric glows are small, short-lived, and faint
28 March 2012
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ScienceShot: 'Super Earths' Abound Nearby
About 100 potentially habitable rocky worlds live within 30 light-years of us
21 March 2012
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Mercury Gets a Dose of Extra Iron
Small planet's iron core is much larger than thought
20 March 2012
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Video: Turn Left at the Lava Field
New map of Jupiter's moon, Io, depicts most volcanically active orb in solar system
29 February 2012
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ScienceShot: Clues From the Dark Side of the Moon
The lunar night may help reveal which planets have life
24 February 2012
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Podcast: Elephant Role Models, Planet-Stealing Stars, and More
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23 February 2012
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ScienceShot: Solar System's Origins Not So Special
The disk of gas and dust that formed our planets is just average in size
21 February 2012
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Some Planets Are Alien Invaders
Billions of stars may have snatched their most distant worlds
21 February 2012
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ScienceShot: Water World Is New Type of Planet
Hubble spies liquid planet with atmosphere composed mostly of water
10 February 2012
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ScienceShot: Is Venus Slowing Down?
Planet's rotation is about 6 minutes longer compared with 16 years ago
3 February 2012
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ScienceShot: Double-Star System Hosts Ancient World
Both suns are 2 billion years older than Earth
11 January 2012
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Kepler Spies Smallest Alien Worlds Yet
Compact solar system resembles Jupiter and its moons
22 December 2011
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ScienceShot: Solar Wind Stifles Mercury's Magnetic Field
Modeling suggests solution to 37-year-old mystery
19 December 2011
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ScienceShot: A Bar at the Center of the Milky Way
Observations confirm presence of starry formation
16 December 2011
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Is Jupiter Eating Its Own Heart?
Some gas giants may have destroyed their cores
13 December 2011
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ScienceShot: Don't Worry, Little Planet
Your star probably won't eat you, according to a new study
7 December 2011
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First 'Mini-Earth' May Have Been Spotted
Kepler telescope appears to have spied small world in new five-planet system
7 December 2011
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Giant Stars Bare Their Whirling Hearts
Large suns' cores spin much faster than their surfaces
2 November 2011
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Life on Mars Driven Underground?
Ancient martian clays point to a cold, dry surface but lots of water and warmth below
6 October 2011
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Did Mercury and Uranus Have a Rough Youth After All?
Violent early solar system not ruled out, scientists say
5 October 2011
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ScienceShot: Dark Ice on a Hot Planet
Mercury is home to extensive ice fields
3 October 2011
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ScienceShot: Aspen in Space
Saturn's moon Enceladus has snow 100 meters thick
20 September 2011
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Was the 'Dinosaur Killer' Unfairly Charged?
Researchers still blame an asteroid for wiping out the dinosaurs, but what sent the killer to Earth is being questioned
13 September 2011
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Chaos Clouds the Search for Habitable Worlds
Anarchic solar systems fling out small planets
12 September 2011
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'Super-Earth' Found in Habitable Zone
Milky Way may abound with worlds not much bigger than our own
12 September 2011
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ScienceShot: Massive Storm on Alien World
Extreme brightness changes observed in brown dwarf's atmosphere
19 August 2011
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Podcast: Kamikaze Bacteria, an Alien 'Earth-Mars' Collision, and Predictable Evolution
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