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Cecile LeBlanc
Microbes on or within Saturn’s moon Enceladus?
"It sounds crazy but it could be snowing microbes on the surface of this little world," a space scientist said of Saturn's moon Enceladus.
March 30, 2012
Electric cars need a clean energy source
You might assume that air quality and health impacts are lower for electric cars than for conventional vehicles. Not necessarily so, this study reveals.
February 22, 2012
Stars are hot, right? Not this star.
Stars are hot. But astronomers have found the coolest star - temperature-wise. This star is cooler than the human body.
September 1, 2011
Tamarisk leaf beetles along the Colorado River
Tamarisk leaf beetles - a non-native species - are eating and killing non-native, invasive salt cedar along the Colorado River. Read more here.
July 28, 2011
Billions of orphan Jupiters adrift in Milky Way galaxy?
Astronomers have discovered 10 free-floating, Jupiter-sized planets in our galaxy and say these objects might be more common than stars.
May 19, 2011
Kepler mission’s extraordinary planet discoveries
Famed planet-hunter Geoff Marcy spoke on May 2, 2011 about the Kepler space telescope and its 1,235 candidate planets. Does he think we'll find intelligent life?
May 9, 2011
Mercury waltzes with bright planets at dawn May 2011
As Mercury reemerges as a morning object in May 2011, the solar system’s innermost planet will join up with the planets Jupiter, Venus and Mars in the eastern sky at dawn.
May 3, 2011
Comet Wild-2 has evidence for liquid water on the surface
The first convincing evidence of liquid water on a comet comes from analysis of a sample of Comet Wild-2, returned to Earth by NASA’s Stardust space mission.
April 7, 2011
Vesta is it an asteroid or not an asteroid?
The asteroid Vesta will soon get a visitor. The Dawn spacecraft will enter Vesta orbit in July, 2011 and will map Vesta's terrain.
April 1, 2011
Forecast: Spring rains on Saturn’s moon
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft found evidence of spring rains around the equator of Saturn's largest moon, Titan.
March 20, 2011
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