Dennis Overbye The New York Times
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A Speck of Interstellar Dust Disrupts a Big Bang Theory
Scientists will have to wait awhile longer to find out what kicked off the Big Bang.
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Kepler Spacecraft Finds New Super-Earth 180 Light-Years Away
A year and a half after an equipment failure threatened to derail its epochal search for worlds beyond our solar system, NASA's Kepler spacecraft has bagged another planet, astronomers announced on Thursday.
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Search for aliens is on again, but next quest is finding money
Operating on money and equipment scrounged from the public and from Silicon Valley millionaires, and on the stubborn strength of their own dreams, a band of astronomers recently restarted one of the iconic quests of modern science, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence - SETI, for short - which had been interrupted last year by a lack of fin...
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36 light years from here, new hope for an Earth-like planet
European astronomers said on Monday that they had found what might be the best candidate for a Goldilocks planet yet: a lump of something about 3.6 times as massive as the Earth, circling its star at the right distance for liquid water to exist on its surface - and thus, perhaps, to host life, as we narrowly imagine it.
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New planet may be able to support life
It might be a place that only a lichen or pond scum could love, but astronomers said Wednesday that they had found a very distant planet capable of harboring water on its surface, thus potentially making it a home for plant or animal life.Nobody from Earth will be visiting anytime soon: The planet, which goes by the bumpy name of Gliese 581g, is or...
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A Speck of Interstellar Dust Disrupts a Big Bang Theory
Scientists will have to wait awhile longer to find out what kicked off the Big Bang.
-
Kepler Spacecraft Finds New Super-Earth 180 Light-Years Away
A year and a half after an equipment failure threatened to derail its epochal search for worlds beyond our solar system, NASA's Kepler spacecraft has bagged another planet, astronomers announced on Thursday.
-
Search for aliens is on again, but next quest is finding money
Operating on money and equipment scrounged from the public and from Silicon Valley millionaires, and on the stubborn strength of their own dreams, a band of astronomers recently restarted one of the iconic quests of modern science, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence - SETI, for short - which had been interrupted last year by a lack of fin...
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36 light years from here, new hope for an Earth-like planet
European astronomers said on Monday that they had found what might be the best candidate for a Goldilocks planet yet: a lump of something about 3.6 times as massive as the Earth, circling its star at the right distance for liquid water to exist on its surface - and thus, perhaps, to host life, as we narrowly imagine it.
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New planet may be able to support life
It might be a place that only a lichen or pond scum could love, but astronomers said Wednesday that they had found a very distant planet capable of harboring water on its surface, thus potentially making it a home for plant or animal life.Nobody from Earth will be visiting anytime soon: The planet, which goes by the bumpy name of Gliese 581g, is or...
