Planets

  1. Planets

    New evidence of a wet Mars

    Ten years in to its tour of Mars, the Opportunity rover finds another place on the Red Planet that once might have hosted water.

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    Dwarf planet has water

    This asteroid is spewing water vapor, a new study reports.

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    Jupiter’s long-lasting storm

    Most studies of Jupiter’s centuries-old Great Red Spot suggest this giant storm should have petered out after a few decades. A new study traces the storm’s staying power to the vertical movement of its gases.

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    The comet that came in from the cold

    Comet ISON is hurtling toward the sun at breakneck speed. During this first (and possibly last) trip around the sun, it will either shoot back into space or be torn apart.

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    So many ‘Earths’

    A new analysis suggests humans are not alone in the universe. Our galaxy alone may host billions of Earth-like planets, ones able to support life as we know it.

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    Scratching the Martian surface

    What’s Mars made of? Volcanic rock, glassy particles and a poisonous rocket-fuel chemical, among other things. That’s the latest from tests by NASA’s Curiosity rover.

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    Seeing the moon’s water

    Rocky details of our moon can be gleaned without the aid of visiting astronauts. The latest example: An orbiting spacecraft may have just spotted water locked within surface rocks.

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    Out-of-this-world atmospheres

    Light from a distant, giant world offers clues to the gases in its atmosphere.

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    Meteor explodes over Russia

    Surprise: No one saw it coming.

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    Home on the moon

    Astronomers say rocky moons orbiting distant planets might support alien life.

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    Ice on Mercury

    MESSENGER spacecraft provides evidence for frozen water on planet closest to sun.

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    A diamond planet?

    Distant, carbon-rich world could contain one-third its weight in gems that are relatively rare on Earth.

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