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Incredible Technology: Giant Starshade Could Help Find an Alien Earth
A flower-shaped spacecraft may help scientists see Earth-like alien worlds like never before. Called a "starshade," the huge, sunflower-like spacecraft would deploy to its full size in space, blocking the light of distant stars so
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NASA Said Its Kepler Mission Has Discovered 715 New Planets
NASA astronomers this week announced its Kepler mission has found an incredible 715 new worlds, suggesting there are many multiple-planet solar systems much like our own. These planets were spotted using a new verification
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How Earth’s ‘Extremophiles’ Could Aid Alien Life Search
What would life found in water dating back to more than a billion years ago look like? Scientists are hoping to find out. Deep in a mine in Timmins, Ontario, scientists extracted samples of water
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‘Einstein’s Planet’: New Alien World Revealed by Relativity
Einstein's special relativity has proven more useful than ever, as scientists have now used it to discover an alien planet around another star. The newfound world — nicknamed "Einstein's planet" by the astronomers who
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ET Discovery Could Happen Within 10 Years: World Economic Forum
The discovery of alien life or Earth-like planets and the implications to the world was a crucial item on the agenda at the annual World Economic Forum, or WEF, in Davos, Switzerland. World business leaders
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‘Strongest evidence yet to there being life on Mars’
Prof John Parnell, 55, has co-written a theory with Dr Joseph Michalski, a planetary geologist at the Natural History Museum, that suggests they have discovered the best signs of life in the huge McLaughlin
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First ‘Alien Earth’ Will Be Found in 2013, Experts Say
The first truly Earth-like alien planet is likely to be spotted next year, an epic discovery that would cause humanity to reassess its place in the universe. While astronomers have found a number of exoplanets
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“Orphan” Alien Planet Found Nearby without Parent Star
Astronomers have discovered a potential "rogue" alien planet wandering alone just 100 light-years from Earth, suggesting that such starless worlds may be extremely common across the galaxy. The free-floating object, called CFBDSIR2149, is likely a
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Proof of Life and Water on Mars?
It is also a companion to my book “The Hidden Truth: Water & Life on Mars.” Like the book, this report presents much of the core better hard verifiable surface water in a liquid
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Two Planets, Two Suns: NASA discovery could help find alien life
NASA’s Kepler space laboratory has discovered a pair of planets orbiting a pair of suns. The first-ever find could revolutionize knowledge of how planets are formed, and even identify alien worlds where life may
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Another small step: Nasa unveils Orion capsule bound to take astronauts to Mars
It may look a little underwhelming but this little craft's lofty goal is to take astronauts out of an Earth orbit for the first time since the 1970s - and possibly land man on
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Video: Evidence for ancient life on Mars could be just below surface, new study finds
Researchers say that evidence of ancient life on Mars could take the form of simple organic molecules lying just beneath the Red Planet's surface, and that it could be detectable by NASA's newest rover,
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Forget little green men: Aliens may look like jellyfish with orange bottoms, says government adviser
Forget little green men. Aliens may look like giant jellyfish with orange bottoms, a leading space scientist has claimed. Maggie Aderin-Pocock, a satellite expert and government adviser, said it is likely that there is extra-terrestrial
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Titan: Nasa scientists discover evidence ‘that alien life exists on Saturn’s moon’
Researchers at the space agency believe they have discovered vital clues that appeared to indicate that primitive aliens could be living on the moon. Data from Nasa's Cassini probe has analysed the complex chemistry on
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Japanese scientists eye mysterious ‘Planet X’
Scientists at a Japanese university said Thursday they believed another planet up to two-thirds the size of the Earth was orbiting in the far reaches of the solar system. The researchers at Kobe University in
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Record Nine-Planet Star System Discovered?
A star about 127 light-years from Earth may have even more planets than the sun, which would make the planetary system the most populated yet found. According to a new study, HD 10180—a sunlike star
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First ‘Alien Earth’ May Be Found by 2014
The first true "alien Earth" will likely be discovered in the next two years, a NASA scientist says. Astronomers have found more than 750 alien planets to date, and NASA's Kepler Space Telescope has flagged
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