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Would a hidden ocean on Mars spur human settlement?
4 months, 1 week ago

Would a hidden ocean on Mars spur human settlement?

Al Jazeera  

A new NASA study suggests Mars contains an ocean of water underground, sparking conversations about human settlement. Here’s more about NASA’s latest discovery, and what it tells us about the potential of human settlements on the Red Planet in the future: How did NASA find water on Mars? While NASA found liquid saltwater on Mars in 2015, the latest discovery …

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Rotten eggs chemical detected on Jupiter-like alien planet
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Rotten eggs chemical detected on Jupiter-like alien planet

The Hindu  

The planet known as HD 189733b, discovered in 2005, already had a reputation as a rather extreme place, a scorching hot gas giant a bit larger than Jupiter that is a striking cobalt blue colour and has molten glass rain that blows sideways in its fierce atmospheric winds. Researchers said on Monday new data from the James Webb Space Telescope …

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Astronomers discover potentially habitable planet
7 months ago

Astronomers discover potentially habitable planet

The Independent  

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Forget Mars, are there aliens on… K2-18b? Discovery of planet twice as big as Earth emitting gas 'only produced by life' sparks huge excitement among astronomers
7 months, 4 weeks ago

Forget Mars, are there aliens on… K2-18b? Discovery of planet twice as big as Earth emitting gas 'only produced by life' sparks huge excitement among astronomers

Daily Mail  

Astronomers could finally show that alien life does exist on a distant planet following observations today. Planet K2-18b – which is more than twice as big as Earth and 120 light-years away – sits within the habitable zone of its star in the Leo constellation. Scientists made an exciting and potentially ground-breaking discovery in the search for alien life - …

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Scientists identify polar cyclone swirling on mysterious Uranus
1 year, 6 months ago

Scientists identify polar cyclone swirling on mysterious Uranus

The Hindu  

It is a world wrapped in mystery - the seventh planet from the sun, Uranus, seen up close just once nearly four decades ago by a passing NASA probe and still warily guarding its secrets. But new observations from a telescope located in New Mexico are providing a fuller understanding of its atmosphere, including the detection of a polar cyclone …

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James Webb Space Telescope spots scorching swirling clouds on remote planet
1 year, 9 months ago

James Webb Space Telescope spots scorching swirling clouds on remote planet

The Independent  

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Japan’s Martian moon mission may reveal clues to Mars’ past
3 years, 10 months ago

Japan’s Martian moon mission may reveal clues to Mars’ past

CNN  

CNN — Mars has long been a point of fascination for scientists as they try to uncover the planet’s past and determine if it ever supported life. “Phobos has been patiently accumulating particles escaping the Martian atmosphere and may therefore have been holding for millennia a possible record of the lost atmosphere of the red planet,” Nénon said. This is …

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Mars losing its atmosphere to outer space at faster rate than Earth, reveals Isro's MOM study
4 years, 2 months ago

Mars losing its atmosphere to outer space at faster rate than Earth, reveals Isro's MOM study

India Today  

Mars is losing its atmosphere to outer space at a faster rate, a study of data and images sent by Isro’s Mars Orbiter Mission and Nasa’s Mars orbiter Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution has found. Isro study on dust storms on Mars An Isro statement said, as quoted by TOI, “In the first week of June 2018, a global dust …

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Moon Once Shared Magnetic Field With Earth That Protected Atmopshere,Finds NASA Study
4 years, 2 months ago

Moon Once Shared Magnetic Field With Earth That Protected Atmopshere,Finds NASA Study

News 18  

The Moon played a huge role in the evolution of life on Earth as a new study suggests that our natural satellite once had a magnetic field that helped shield our home planet from harmful solar radiation during a critical early time. The shared magnetic field situation, with Earth and Moon’s magnetospheres joined, could have persisted from 4.1 to 3.5 …

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