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Astronomers Step-up Hunt for Habitable Exoplanets

Marco Foronda |

Dec 02, 2014 01:43 AM EST

The TESS and PLATO satellites will be invaluable in this search.

Humans To Visit Mars by 2035, NASA Says

Marco Foronda |

Nov 18, 2014 06:52 AM EST

Sending people to live on Mars and conduct extensive research there will teach scientists a great deal about the Red Planet and the Earth.

Space Agencies Worldwide Plan to Return to the Moon

Marco Foronda |

Nov 18, 2014 05:04 AM EST

NASA is now focusing on developing its deep-space capabilities for a possible manned mission to Mars by 2035.

Advanced Detectors May Help Discover Hundreds of Black Holes and Their Secrets

Marco Foronda |

Nov 17, 2014 03:41 AM EST

Detectors will pick-up the gravitational waves created by the collision of black holes millions of years ago.

Image of a single chondrule from the Semarkona meteorite

Scientists Discover Vital Clues about the Solar System's Birth

Ana Verayo |

Nov 17, 2014 03:17 AM EST

A new study reveals that magnetic fields formed planets from space clouds and dust.

Magnetic Fields in Ancient Meteorites Reveal Origin of the Solar System

Marco Foronda |

Nov 16, 2014 10:55 PM EST

These magnetic fields are maintained within the chondrules even down to the current day.

Time and Energy Running out for Philae Lander

Nyrene Paranga |

Nov 14, 2014 07:49 AM EST

Philae's current location only allows few hours of illumination from sunlight.

Brilliant Storms Reveal More Detail of Uranus

Marco Foronda |

Nov 13, 2014 10:12 PM EST

Scientists detected eight large storms raging across the planet's northern hemisphere last August 5 and 6.

Asteroid with a Comet's Tail Spotted in the Asteroid Belt

Marco Foronda |

Nov 12, 2014 02:02 AM EST

Asteroids are the most unchanging objects, but this asteroid changing into something.

Startling Photos Show Formation Of Solar System

David Perry |

Nov 07, 2014 07:41 AM EST

Scientists in Chile have captured the most detailed photo yet of the birth of a planetary system outside of our own.

New Study Suggests Water Arrived Early on Earth

Marc Maligalig |

Oct 31, 2014 08:46 AM EDT

Scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution found in a study that the water on Earth arrived earlier than previously thought.

Europa, Jupiter's Moon, Demonstrates Plate Tectonics

Marc Maligalig |

Sep 08, 2014 10:35 AM EDT

The researchers concluded the missing portion must have somehow descended into the inside of the moon.

Scientists Find New Clues on the Solar Cycle

Marc Maligalig |

Sep 04, 2014 09:09 AM EDT

Scott McIntosh, a space scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Col., and his colleagues have discovered that a new marker, named brightpoints, to observe in order to track the constant shifting of elements inside the sun.

Formation of Planets Witnessed by Scientists

Paula Marie Navarra |

Aug 30, 2014 02:22 PM EDT

Astronomers for the first time have detected a distant young star's dust eruption that might be the result of the collision of large asteroids leading to the formation of a new planet. This might lead to a better understanding of how lanets took shape in our own solar system, scientists said