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Asteroid Cornucopia 6 Sep 2010 at 6:52pm  New data from NASA s Spitzer Space Telescope is helping astronomers better understand near-Earth objects. The study is of interest to astrobiology because asteroids could have played an important role Read more... Tracking Viruses Back in Time 5 Sep 2010 at 6:52pm  How long have viruses been around? No one knows. Scientists at Portland State University have begun taking the first steps toward answering this question. Read more... Recipe for Water: Just Add Starlight 4 Sep 2010 at 6:52pm  Astronomers have discovered that ultraviolet starlight is the key ingredient for making water in space. Water is essential for life as we know it, and understanding how water came to exist in the Univ Read more... Viking Results Revisited 3 Sep 2010 at 6:52pm  Experiments prompted by a 2008 surprise from NASA s Phoenix Mars Lander suggest that soil examined by NASA s Viking Mars landers in 1976 may have contained carbon-based chemical building blocks of lif Read more... Potassium Planets 2 Sep 2010 at 6:52pm  Astronomers have discovered the element potassium in the atmosphere of a planet about 190 light years from Earth. Identifying elements necessary for life in the atmospheres of exoplanets could one day Read more... Setting Sail in the Sun 1 Sep 2010 at 6:52pm  Propelled by sunlight pressure, large lightweight sails made of ultrathin aluminum-coated plastic could one day take probes to the edge of our solar system and other stars. Read more... A Dusty, Cloudy ExoPlanet 31 Aug 2010 at 6:52pm  Astronomers have measured the temperature of a young gas-giant planet and found that its atmosphere is unlike that of any previously studied extrasolar planet. Such observations help astrobiologists u Read more... Tracing the Martian Atmosphere 30 Aug 2010 at 6:52pm  One of the instruments on a 2016 mission to orbit Mars will provide daily maps of global, pole-to-pole, vertical distributions of the temperature, dust, water vapor and ice clouds in the Martian atmo Read more... The Atlantic and Pacific Climate Connection 29 Aug 2010 at 6:52pm  Researchers are discovering new ways in which the Earth s oceans have influenced global climate. At the end of the last ice age, north Atlantic ice sheets melted, added fresh water and caused the coll Read more... Asteroids Live in Their Own Little Worlds 28 Aug 2010 at 6:52pm  A new study shows that asteroids are constantly changing little worlds that can give birth to smaller asteroids. Studying asteroids is important because asteroid impacts could have played an importa Read more...

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