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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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"Located less than 60 million kilometers (or 36 million miles) from the Sun's surface, Mercury makes an excellent spot for a penal colony."

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Good article looking at both sides of the SETI argument (blind faith and hopeful science), including interview snippets. Via Centauri Dreams.

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"Only recently has the idea of habitable planets around red dwarf stars taken hold. But it’s a fascinating one, especially if you take a look at the potential window for life to develop on such w

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"Humans must colonize planets in other solar systems traveling there using "Star Trek"-style propulsion or face extinction, renowned British cosmologist Stephen Hawking said on Thursday

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"Can we expect to find gas giants mixed with small terrestrial worlds around most Sun-like stars? And what about the smaller and far fainter red dwarfs?" Centauri Dreams thinking aloud about

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"How could you possibly study the interior of a giant planet orbiting another star? Especially when that planet is so drowned in its star’s light that we can’t even see it?"

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"... as we move toward galactic center, we’re still seeing planets. Which is why Kailash Sahu ... said that the Hubble results provided “very strong evidence that planets are as abundant in other

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"Brown dwarfs are clearly commonplace in the galaxy, but we know all too little about them." But we sure are finding a lot of them at the moment.

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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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"...according to a new study led by the University of Colorado at Boulder and Pennsylvania State, solar systems with hot Jupiters may well harbor Earth-like planets covered with deep oceans."

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The Antikythera mechanism is ratified as being a genuine example of an astronomical computer made nearly a century before the (alleged) birth of Christ.

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Yes, they are still debating it. No, it won't really change anything either way. Cheers to Scalzi for the link.

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Ladies and gentlemen, we present you...Panspermia 2.0. Eyethangyow.

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The odds on habitable planets in the Centauri system just got better - though sadly a long way from definite.

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Get a sense of scale; this planet is tiny! Interesting visual scale comparisons of the bodies in the solar system. Link via Antick Musings.

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New models for satellite formation solve some conundrums of scale and size.

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Rogue failed stars have their own miniature 'solar systems'

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You wait for ages, then three turn up at once...extrasolar planets, that is.

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Nice images collection of nebulars and planets taken by the hubble telescope

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