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343 results for: exoplanet

  1. Astronomy

    The Star That Ate a Mars

    COVER STORY: Scientists probe debris trapped by white dwarfs to learn more about what faraway Earthlike planets are made of.

    By Charles Petit
  2. Space

    2009 Science News of the Year: Atom & Cosmos

    A post-crash plume kicked up from the moon contained vapor and ice. NASA crashed an unmanned spacecraft into the lunar surface on October 9 in order to analyze the resulting debris for signs of water. Image Credit: NASA Water on the moonThe moon isn’t bone dry: Although planetary scientists had suspected as much for years, […]

    By Science News
  3. Astronomy

    Can you hear me now?

    Astronomers reconsider how extraterrestrials could make contact.

    By Elizabeth Quill

  4. Beneath that blazing facade

    Researchers revamp ideas about what’s in the sun.

    By Alexandra Witze
  5. Astronomy

    2010 Science News of the Year: Atom & Cosmos

    By Science News

  6. Star Cents

    How the cost of NASA’s next big space telescope skyrocketed.

    By Ron Cowen
  7. Astronomy

    Stellar oddballs

    Kepler spacecraft finds much more than exoplanets.

    By Charles Petit