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Potentially Habitable Earth-Sized World Discovered Just 40 Light-Years Away
ScienceAlert via Yahoo News· 2 days agoAn artist's impression of the Gliese-12 system, with the exoplanet retaining a thin atmosphere. (...
A Nearby Planet Could Be Earth 2.0 Or An ‘Evil Twin,’ Say Scientists
Forbes· 2 days agoA planet just 40 light-years from the solar system has been discovered to be tantalizingly similar...
InSight: NASA spacecraft spots its dead robot explorer on Mars
Interesting Engineering· 2 days agoIt addressed one of the most fundamental issues of planetary science: understanding the processes...
NASA wants to build a railroad on the Moon
Quartz· 5 days agoNASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program recently...they will receive additional funding and support from the space agency. The FLOAT system...
Solar eclipses are so last month. Get ready for a 'planetary parade'
LA Times via AOL· 4 days agoA "planetary parade" will occur June 3, when Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune will...
Scientists locate origin of the sun’s magnetic field | CNN
CNN.com· 11 hours agoThe storms that create spectacular auroras such as those I witnessed originate from the sun’s...
Researchers Trace the Origin of the Sun's Magnetic Field, Shedding Light on Space Weather and Solar...
Smithsonian Magazine· 1 day agoThe sun’s magnetic field could form much closer to the star’s surface than previously thought,...
A Plasma Rocket From Nasa Could Send Humans to Mars in Just 2 Months
Popular Mechanics· 2 days agoRight now it takes roughly eight months for astronauts to travel from Earth to Mars, but if NASA or...
NASA space telescope finds Earth-size exoplanet that's 'not a bad place' to hunt for life
Space via Yahoo News· 2 days agoNASA exoplanet-hunter TESS has found a temperate, Earth-size world in the habitable zone of its red...
An Exoplanet's Huge Comet-like Tail Hides An Astronomical Secret
Inverse· 6 days agoThe star it orbits is baking and stripping away the planet’s atmosphere, and that escaped atmosphere...