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9:46pm, 31st July, 2019

TESS probe helps scientists find potentially habitable planet, 31 light-years away

An artist’s conception depicts GJ 357 d orbiting its host star. (Cornell University Illustration / Jack Madden) Astronomers are sharing a flood of findings from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, including the detection of a poten...

Could Air Conditioners Help Cool the Planet?

7:48pm, 6th May, 2019

Nature

Could Air Conditioners Help Cool the Planet?

Researchers want to outfit air conditioners with carbon capture technology. Christopher Intagliata reports. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Data flows from NASA's TESS Mission, leads to discovery of Saturn-sized planet

9:32pm, 27th March, 2019

Physics

Data flows from NASA's TESS Mission, leads to discovery of Saturn-sized planet

(Iowa State University) Astronomers who study stars have contributed to the analysis of a planet discovered by NASA's new TESS Mission. It's the first planet identified by TESS for which the oscillations -- 'starquakes' -- of the...

11:57am, 26th March, 2019

Tech

How Smarter Technology Will Feed the Planet

A tech revolution in agriculture is improving yields and driving down waste-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

NASA’s Dawn probe falls silent, ending mission to mysterious dwarf planet Ceres

7:42pm, 1st November, 2018

Space

NASA’s Dawn probe falls silent, ending mission to mysterious dwarf planet Ceres

This photo of Ceres and the bright regions in Occator Crater was one of the last views NASA’s Dawn spacecraft transmitted before it completed its mission. This view, which faces south, was captured on Sept. 1 from an altitude of 2,340 miles as the sp...

Attention Earthlings: Jeff Bezos wants everybody to watch this classic video about settling off planet

3:24pm, 15th October, 2018

Space

Attention Earthlings: Jeff Bezos wants everybody to watch this classic video about settling off planet

Jeff Bezos during Wired 25 on Monday. (Twitter screen grab via Wired) Jeff Bezos loves to talk about space. And in a talk about just that on Monday, he encouraged anyone who was listening to go listen to another classic talk about space. The Amazon C...

1:23pm, 3rd October, 2018

Space

Hubble Space Telescope boosts evidence for first exomoon seen circling alien planet

An artist’s impression shows the Jupiter-sized exoplanet Kepler-1625b transiting its parent star with the Neptune-sized candidate exomoon in tow. (Dan Durda Illustration) With a lot of help from the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers now feel confid...

Search for Planet Nine turns up a way-out dwarf planet that’s called ‘The Goblin’

12:37am, 3rd October, 2018

Space

Search for Planet Nine turns up a way-out dwarf planet that’s called ‘The Goblin’

The International Space Station leaves a streak above the Subaru Telescope in a long-exposure image. Observations using the Subaru Telescope led to the discovery of the mini-world known as The Goblin. (Subaru Telescope / NAOJ Photo / Hideaki Fujiwara...

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TESS probe helps scientists find potentially habitable planet, 31 light-years away

Could Air Conditioners Help Cool the Planet?

Data flows from NASA's TESS Mission, leads to discovery of Saturn-sized planet

How Smarter Technology Will Feed the Planet

NASA’s Dawn probe falls silent, ending mission to mysterious dwarf planet Ceres

Attention Earthlings: Jeff Bezos wants everybody to watch this classic video about settling off planet

Hubble Space Telescope boosts evidence for first exomoon seen circling alien planet

Search for Planet Nine turns up a way-out dwarf planet that’s called ‘The Goblin’

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