Category: Planetary Science
6 July 2011
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ScienceShot: A Planet-Wide Thunderstorm
Saturn's latest "Great White Spot" revealed in unprecedented detail
1 July 2011
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Podcast: Frightened Penguins, Earth-Like Alien Moons, and LSD for Headaches
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22 June 2011
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Does Life Exist on Distant Moons?
Study suggests Earth-like "exomoons" may orbit gas giants
22 June 2011
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ScienceShot: Life on Enceladus?
The idea is not so far-fetched thanks to new findings
16 June 2011
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ScienceShot: Mercury Reveals Some Surprises
Scientists get their closest look ever at innermost planet
27 May 2011
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Who Needs a Moon?
Earth-like extrasolar planets could be suitable for life even if their rotation is not stabilized by a large moon
25 May 2011
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Why Mars Is a Planetary Runt
Earth’s diminutive neighbor never grew beyond “embryo stage”
23 May 2011
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Stars With Multiple Planets Abound
Kepler space telescope spies well more than a hundred of them
18 May 2011
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'Homeless' Planets May Be Common in Our Galaxy
International team discovers horde of free-floating planets, not tied to any sun
13 May 2011
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Podcast: Expanding Leeches, America’s Earliest Dogs, and Misbehaving Planets
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12 May 2011
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ScienceShot: A Moon on Fire
Scientists find a magma ocean in Jupiter’s Io
11 May 2011
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Why Some Hot Jupiters Orbit the Wrong Way
Simulation may explain “retrograde” orbits of some alien worlds
8 May 2011
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Titan's Atmosphere Spawned by Impacts?
Ancient bombardments may have transformed ammonia-rich ices into gaseous nitrogen
4 May 2011
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At Long Last, Gravity Probe B Satellite Proves Einstein Right
Test not as rigorous as hoped, however
22 April 2011
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Alien World's Fast Orbit Creates Shock Waves
Magnetic “bow shock” could help astronomers find habitable worlds
22 April 2011
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Podcast: Dodos Get Smaller, Pluto's Atmosphere Gets Bigger, and More
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19 April 2011
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Pluto's Expanding Atmosphere Confounds Researchers
The gas sheath now reaches more than 20 times its previous height and contains carbon monoxide
6 April 2011
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Stardust Reveals Comets Were Once Wet
Having at least partially melted at one time, comet Wild 2 challenges the primordial nature of "dirty snowballs"
5 April 2011
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ScienceShot: Martian Mud Volcanoes
Hundreds of moundlike features linked to underlying sediment layers
18 March 2011
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ScienceShot: MESSENGER Arrives Safely at Mercury
Strange planet gets its first orbiter
17 March 2011
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ScienceShot: Long-Awaited Titan Rains Arrive
Canyon-cutting methane rain wets Saturn's moon
4 March 2011
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ScienceShot: Mars Crater Gouged by Multiple Impacts
High-res images reveal objects hit planet at shallow angle
15 February 2011
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Valentine's Day Encounter Yields Fresh Comet Views
High-res shots of Tempel 1 may shed light on formation of solar system
11 February 2011
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Outcast Planets Could Support Life
Geothermal activity may sustain hidden oceans on worlds ejected from their planetary systems
2 February 2011
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A Disturbingly Weird Exoplanet System
Kepler discovery of six planets tightly packed around one star leaves theorists befuddled
25 January 2011
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ScienceShot: Oversized Exoplanets Inflate Themselves
Finding explains why many "Hot Jupiters" are larger than expected
14 January 2011
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ScienceShot: Hot World Breaks Record
Hottest planet yet sizzles at 3200°C
10 January 2011
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First Earth-Sized Exoplanet Discovered
Kepler astronomers have nailed detection of a rocky—albeit uninhabitable—planet circling another star
6 January 2011
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At Long Last, Moon's Core 'Seen'
Modern techniques applied to 40-year-old data seem to have finally revealed the moon's molten core
12 December 2010
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Violent Origin for Saturn's Rings
New study may have solved centuries-old mystery
29 November 2010
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Earth Oceans Were Homegrown
New model suggests that our seas didn't come from comets and asteroids
19 November 2010
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Can the Sun's Siblings Be Found?
Stars born with the sun may be dispersed far and wide in the Milky Way
16 November 2010
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Spacecraft Successfully Returns Asteroid Dust
Mission is the first to land on and return samples from a celestial body other than the moon
2 November 2010
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Why Saturn's B Ring Looks Like a Vinyl Record
New observations explain mysterious grooves
29 October 2010
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Hellish 'Super-Earths' Likely Prevalent Throughout Our Galaxy
Study suggests that many extrasolar planets will be too hot for life
28 October 2010
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No Lack of Exo-Earths Out There
Extrapolating from the seen to the unseen, astronomers give assurances that Earth-sized planets abound
8 October 2010
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ScienceShot: Mars's Grand Canyon
Huge chasm brims with signs of ancient water flows
29 September 2010
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Astronomers Find Most Earth-like Planet to Date
Potentially habitable world lives right in our galactic neighborhood
16 September 2010
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Moon Hit With a Double Whammy of Impacts
NASA lunar orbiter's first year of data provides surprises, new questions
20 August 2010
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ScienceShot: Martian Volcano Mud May Have Hosted Life
Outflows may have harbored water and other organic ingredients
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