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Is planet hunting crucial to our survival ?
5-7-2012 |
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Astronomers in Australia have emphasised the importance of seeking out other habitable planets.
Nearby star may have nine extrasolar planets
4-7-2012 | 6
At 127 light years distant the HD 10180 system shares many similarities with our own Solar System.
Would you buy land on another planet ?
4-6-2012 | 95
In the future we could see businesses and governments laying claim to plots of land on other worlds.
How carbon helped to thaw the planet
4-6-2012 | 42
In a new study scientists have been investigating how CO2 levels helped to end the last ice age.
How would we approach first contact ?
4-2-2012 | 49
If we were to ever come across an inhabitated alien planet, how would we go about contacting them ?
Animal Planet episode seeks Bigfoot
VIDEO 3-18-2012 | 39
An Animal Planet film crew are investigating the scene of an infamous Youtube Bigfoot video.
NASA's Mars program cancelled ?
2-28-2012 | 19
Future missions to Mars seem unlikely due to large budget cuts to NASA's planetary budget.
'Water world' discovered
2-22-2012 | 28
Astronomers have discovered a distant extrasolar water planet shrouded in a thick steamy atmosphere.
Will animals evolve human defenses ?
2-18-2012 | 21
The most dangerous predator to ever walk the planet is mankind - but what can animals do in defense ?
NASA to scale back Mars budget
2-13-2012 | 23
NASA executives are to make significant cuts to its exploration of other planets in our solar system.
Every star has planets, new study suggests
1-12-2012 | 13
A team of scientists has found evidence to suggest that every star in the universe has planets.
Can Earth survive the Sun as a red giant ?
12-23-2011 | 11
Two planets have been found that appear to have survived their star's destructive red giant phase.
SETI to focus on extrasolar planets
12-8-2011 | 38
SETI are back thanks to new funding and is turning its attention towards newly discovered alien worlds.
Kepler finds alien planet in Goldilocks zone
12-6-2011 | 21
Kepler-22b is at just the right distance from its star for liquid water to exist on its surface.
Blisteringly hot alien planet found
12-5-2011 | 11
A planet so hot that iron would melt on its surface has been discovered orbiting a distant star.
Skeptics concede Earth has warmed
10-22-2011 | 131
Scientists previously skeptical about global warming have conceded that the planet is getting hotter.
Jupiter mistaken for distress flare
10-9-2011 | 12
Lifeboat crews were called after a man thought he saw a "flare" that turned out to be the planet Jupiter.
Ozone layer discovered on Venus
10-8-2011 | 3
A very thin ozone layer has been discovered around the planet Venus by the Venus Express spacecraft.
Planet discovered orbiting two stars
9-18-2011 | 10
Astronomers have identified a Saturn-sized planet 200 light years away orbiting around two stars.
50 new extrasolar planets discovered
9-13-2011 | 106
Astronomers have announced the discovery of 50 exoplanets, one of which could be habitable.
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