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If We Destroy Our Planet
by Bob Sauls Bob Sauls Scientists are exploiting one of Einstein's predictions to find Earth-like planets around other stars–planets that might even support Earth-like life. Let the evacuation plans...
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Five Ways You’re Killing the Planet
The everyday actions that are wrecking the environment, and how you can quit Living in the 'BurbsYour little house may be cute, but under its toxic vinyl siding, it's an environmental monster. Add the...
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Distant Red Giant Caught Devouring One of Its Planets
Red Giant Sun This artist's concept shows what might happen to the Earth when the sun enters its red giant phase. Astronomers believe they have found the first evidence of a red giant consuming one of...
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Astronomers Capture Beautiful Image Of Distant Planets Forming
HL Tau and its protoplanetary disk ALMA (NRAO/ESO/NAOJ); C. Brogan, B. Saxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF) At the very center of the image above is the sun-like star HL Tau, surrounded by rings of dust and gas. You...
View ArticleCould There Be A Planet Hidden On The Opposite Side Of Our Sun?
The sun might seem like a pretty huge galactic blind spot, but we've already managed to glimpse behind it, and there's nothing there in the way of another Earth, says NASA scientist Michael Kaiser,...
View ArticleAn Adorable Animation Of The Sun Destroying Earth
Hello, tiny human! If you needed a quick reminder of how small you are in the universe, just check out this video, created by designer Philipp Dettmer. It'll give you the…
View ArticleOn Nightmare Planet Covered In Boiling Lava, A Year Lasts 8.5 Hours
Kepler 78b is an Earth-sized exoplanet not too far from us--only about 700 light-years away. But don't bother getting your hopes up about settling there, because Kepler 78b…
View ArticlePlanet Without A Star Found
The planetary world keeps getting stranger. Scientists have found free-floating planetsâ drifting alone, away from stars â before. But the ânewbornâ PSO J318.5-22…
View ArticleNewly Found Exoplanet Is Earth-Like In Size And Composition
Who's this little guy hanging out so close to its sun? It's an exoplanet, discovered just this past July, and before I call it "little" againâits radius is actually 16 percent larger than Earth's....
View ArticleInfographic: A Catalog Of Interplanetary Firsts
The U.S. is still the only country thatâs sent people to the moon, but more nations are steadily joining us in space. South Korea sent up its first satellite last year. In…
View ArticleHow To Find Our Planet’s Twin
To date, most known extrasolar planets are gas giants like Jupiter or Neptune. Lacking even a solid surface, they are worlds very unlike our own planet. As the search for…
View ArticleFound: The Most Potentially Life-Friendly Exoplanet So Far
Five hundred light-years away, Earth has a cousin. Kepler data has revealed there's rocky planet out there that's similar in size to Earth and may have the right conditions…
View ArticleThe Weirdest Calculators On The Internet
Youâve probably turned to Googleâs search box on many occasions, be it for solving a simple math problem, finding out the current exchange rate between the dollar and the euro, or calculating how...
View ArticleTwo Families Of Exocomets Found Circling A Nearby Star
About 63 light years from our Sun, youâll find a relatively young star called Beta Pictoris. A mere 20 million years old, Beta Pictoris is surrounded by a very active and…
View ArticleSpace Shots: A Gallery Of The Universe's Best Images
Photos, visualizations, and other pictures of outer space, updated almost daily by the editors of Popular Science…
View ArticleYes, We've Seen the Surface of Venus
Venus' clouds are thick, but we've landed on and seen the surface.
View ArticleNASA Wants You To Travel To Far-Off Worlds Someday
Three new posters from NASA highlight strange alien extrasolar planets to which humans might some day travel.
View ArticleWe’re About To Visit A Tiny Planet In The Asteroid Belt For The First Time
While the world awaits the first visit of Pluto this July, another space mission will reach a strange world much closer to home. And months sooner. A small robot named Dawn…
View ArticleResearchers Discover An Ancient Replica Of Our Solar System
Deep within the bowels of our Milky Way Galaxy, there is another solar system that is like a miniature replica of our own. Except this planetary system is just a tad older…
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