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"...it shouldn’t be neglected that a rocky place with high water content, discovered through a transit of a ‘hot Neptune,’ is an exciting reminder that the essentials for life are likely widespre

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"Got that? We’re talking about mapping continents on planets around other stars, using equipment that could be within our capabilities soon."

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"Scientists taking their first "sniffs of air" from planets outside our solar system are a bit baffled by what they did *not* find: water."

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"We want to analyze the light of a distant world to learn what elements are found in its atmosphere. These become clues to conditions there, and even markers of possible life." Centauri Drea

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"Mars is losing little water to space, according to new research, so much of its ancient abundance may still be hidden beneath the surface." Wait one month for the debunk, then another month

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"Robert Zubrin, president of The Mars Society has developed a five step plan towards conquering the red planet and enabling humanity to establish a second home within the solar system."

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"Hunting for terrestrial planets is not going to be easy, and even when we start getting images of such worlds, there will be plenty of questions to answer."

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"Hazy skies on early Earth could have provided a substantial source of organic material useful for emerging life on the planet..."

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"Titan's atmosphere is considered ideal for gaining a better understanding of the early days of Earth's atmosphere because it and proto-Earth are believed to have emerged with similar atmospheres

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"The heat from Saturn's interior backlights clouds deep within its atmosphere, a new image from the Cassini spacecraft reveals." Space is pretty!

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Couldn't resist the childish headline ... big old storm on the outer planet, according to Hubble pictures.

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"These amazing images were taken by Cambridge University students who sent a camera close to the edge of space for less than £1,000." The Brits are keeping it lo-fi...thanks, New Scientist B

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"When the day comes that we have spectroscopic data from exoplanets as small as Earth, we’ll be able to study the signatures of the gases there to learn something about conditions on the surface.

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"Rare, mother-of-pearl coloured clouds caused by extreme weather conditions above Antarctica are a possible indication of climate change, Australian scientists say." Doesn't climate change l

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No, it's not an article advocating getting smacked up for relaxation - it's advocating launching sulphur particles into the stratosphere to reflect more sunlight from the Earth. Which is marginally le

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Just in case we hadn't realised, it's unusually hot over here in the UK. Hockey stick? What hockey stick?

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"NASA scientists have determined that the formation of clouds is affected by the lightness or darkness of air pollution particles. This also impacts Earth's climate." Nothing is ever simple,

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Research indicates governments are lying through their teeth abouth their greenhouse emissions. I wish I was surprised by this news.

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Does what it says on the tin.

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It's not just bad, it's worse.

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What gives with the ozone layer, dude?

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