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“One of the new frontiers in astronomy, with the exception of extrasolar planets, is really the time domain,” Huchra said. “When you’re trying to understand how things have changed, rarely do you get to go back and look...
COSMOS CHIC MIT's design for a skintight, agile spacesuit could let astronauts walk, run and even scale mountains on planets and moons.
Call it one giant leap for mankind's search for life on other planets. Researchers now have the first conclusive evidence of water on a planet outside our solar system, according to a paper in today's issue of the journal Nature.
For most of us back on Earth, the real significance will come when the technique is applied to other planets. "I agree we all have in the back of our brains that water is equivalent to life," says Tinetti. She doesn't believe HD 189733b itself will harbor life. That...
The odd duck of a spacecraft, scheduled to launch in September, is known simply as Dawn, and its destinations are the asteroid Vesta and the dwarf planet Ceres, mysterious bodies orbiting in the belt of rubble that circles the sun between Mars and Venus. NASA vehicles have been this way...