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Cosmic Explosions Show the Way to the Farthest Reaches of the Universe

May 25, 2011, 4:28 pm • Posted by Lisa Pickoff-White
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Put on your Spock ears, star gazers. An explosion in what may be one of the oldest galaxies in the universe is making headlines today. Back in 2009, NASA's Swift Satellite captured a gamma-ray burst an estimated 13.14 billion light … Continue reading »

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NASA Mission Detects 'Earth-Like' Planet

January 10, 2011, 11:10 am • Posted by Dan Brekke
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NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View says that the agency's Kepler mission, dedicated to locating planets orbiting stars other than our sun, has found its first rocky planet. That makes it a cousin of sorts to our favorite planet, … Continue reading »

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NASA's Arsenic-Eating Microbes Debunked

December 9, 2010, 4:28 pm • Posted by Jon Brooks
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Producer/reporter Sheraz Sadiq of KQED's QUEST — who wrote an excellent blog post explaining the hullaballoo surrounding last week's announcement by NASA that it had discovered a completely new form of life –now points me to this Slate article debunking … Continue reading »

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NASA New-Life Discovery: Some in Media Expected Proof of ETs

December 3, 2010, 10:49 am • Posted by Jon Brooks
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On Thursday NASA announced it has discovered a completely new form of life at the bottom of Mono Lake, in California's Eastern Sierra. By all accounts, this is an extremely important discovery. From the New York Times: Scientists said the … Continue reading »

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