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How NASA Might Revive Kepler
An artist’s rendition of the Kepler spacecraft as it searches distant stars for planets. Credit: NASA/Kepler mission/Wendy Stenzel NASA officials announced Wednesday, May 15, that the Kepler space...
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The Anthropocene: Humankind as a Turning Point for Earth
Spiraling timescale chart of life on Earth. The Anthropocene is the name of a proposed new geological time period (probably an epoch) that may soon enter the official Geologic Time Scale. The...
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Forming a Definition for Life : Interview with Gerald Joyce
Gerald F. Joyce, M.D., Ph.D., is a professor and investigator in the Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology at the Scripps Research Institute. Credit: Scripps Research Institute What is life? It’s a...
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A Taste of Mars: HI-SEAS Mission Now in its Final Days
HI-SEAS crew commander Angelo Vermeulen plays with a Pleo robotic pet while he works in the Hawaii habitat. Credit: Simon Engler / HI-SEAS The Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HI-SEAS)...
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The Drake Equation Revisited: An interview with Sara Seager
Sara Seager, expert planet hunter. Credit: MIT Planet hunters keep finding distant worlds that bear a resemblance to Earth. Some of the thousands of exoplanet candidates discovered to date have...
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Mars’ Black Beauty
Martin Whitehouse (Left) and Alexander Nemchin (Right), co-authors in the study. The instrument shown is the Cameca 1280 (NordSIMS). Credit: Swedish Natural History Museum Recently, scientists studying...
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In the Zone. The Venus Zone: Seeking the Twin of our Twin Among the Stars
Artist’s concept of lightning on Venus. Image credit: ESA What if, in our quest to find another Earth, we happen upon another Venus? We should celebrate, of course. Venus is often called Earth’s “twin”...
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Q&A with Dr. Phoebe Cohen
Phoebe Cohen, Assistant Professor of Geosciences at Williams College. Credit: Williams College Dr. Phoebe A. Cohen is a Professor of Geosciences at Williams College and is involved in numerous research...
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Q&A: Bill Nye on Mars Exploration
The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore Bill Nye the Science Guy made a recent appearance on an episode of the Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore, where he discussed NASA’s recent discovery of water on Mars...
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An interview with NASA’s Jim Green
NASA’s Director of Planetary Science, Dr Jim Green. Image credit: NASA. Jim Green, Director of NASA’s Planetary Science Division, also hosts the popular Gravity Assist podcast, in which each episode he...
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