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The Premiere Of Philip Glass' Astronomy Opera

AP | BRUCE SMITH | Posted 05.20.2012

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CHARLESTON, S.C. — The Spoleto Festival USA opens its 36th season Friday and among the planned performances is an opera by American composer Phi...

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Planet-Hunting Program Gets Reprieve From NASA Bean Counters

AP | Posted 04.05.2012

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MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- NASA has decided to keep its planet-hunting spacecraft running for several more years. The space agency said Wednesday the...

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They're Not Meat

Seth Shostak | Posted 03.28.2012

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In a movie it's important to have aliens whose gestures and facial expressions can be "read" by humans. But come on! Are two eyes, four appendages and an upright posture really essential?

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The Fabric of My Cosmos

Carolyn Bucior | Posted 03.21.2012

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When I read last month that NASA's Kepler space telescope was allowing scientists to spy on a potentially habitable planet 600 light years away and co...

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Backyard Astronomer Discovers New Planet

The Huffington Post | Travis Korte | Posted 01.19.2012

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There are billions of planets in our galaxy, and a hot, Neptune-sized planet orbiting an ordinary star called SPH10066540 might not seem unusual, but ...

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Guess Who's Building World's Biggest Telescope

AP | By AUDREY McAVOY | Posted 01.12.2012

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HONOLULU -- China and India are catapulting to the forefront of astronomy research with their decision to join as partners in a Hawaii telescope that ...

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Milky Way Packed With Billions Of Planets, Study Suggests

AP | By SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 01.12.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The more astronomers look for other worlds, the more they find that it's a crowded and crazy cosmos. They think planets easily outnumber...

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PHOTOS: NASA Makes 'Milestone' Discovery

HuffingtonPost.com | Timothy Stenovec | Posted 12.21.2011

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Scientists are one Earth-sized step closer to discovering a planet outside our solar system that could be suitable for life. In a study published o...

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Scientists Discover Planet With Earth-Like Characteristics

The Huffington Post | Timothy Stenovec | Posted 12.06.2011

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NASA announced Monday the discovery of Kepler-22b, the first planet the Kepler spacecraft has discovered in the habitable zone, an area with a distanc...

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New Planet Discovered!

The Huffington Post | Timothy Stenovec | Posted 12.01.2011

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The National Optical Astronomy Observatory announced on Wednesday the discovery of Kepler-21b, a new planet that's close to the size of earth and is o...

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NASA Makes 'Star Wars'-Like Discovery

The Huffington Post | Timothy Stenovec | Posted 11.15.2011

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NASA reported on Thursday the discovery of Kepler 16b, a planet with two suns that evokes images of Luke Skywalker's home planet, Tatooine, from the "...

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First Planet Orbiting Two Stars Discovered by the NASA Kepler Spacecraft

SETI Institute | Posted 11.15.2011

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By Dr. Laurance Doyle, an astrophysicist at the SETI Institute, and lead author of a paper that will appear in the journal Science on September 15, 2...

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TrES-2b: Astronomers Discover Darkest Known Planet (VIDEO)

Posted 10.14.2011

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Astronomers peering into other galaxies have found something bizarre -- a black planet. NASA's Kepler spacecraft discovered TrES-2b, the darkest known...

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Life at the SETI Institute: Jon Jenkins -- Turning Pixels Into Planets

SETI Institute | Posted 05.28.2011

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After a starquake, says NASA's Dr. Jon Jenkins, "stars actually change their shape. This shape change causes an apparent change in brightness. As we study the brightness variations in time, we can essentially hear the songs of the stars."

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A Bucketful of Worlds

Seth Shostak | Posted 05.25.2011

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It's raining planets. Members of the science team for NASA's Kepler telescope announced the tentative discovery of more than 1,200 worlds orbiting distant stars. Of these, approximately four dozen are candidates for being Earth's doppelgangers.

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NASA Spots 54 Potentially Life-Friendly Planets

AP | SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — An orbiting NASA telescope is finding whole new worlds of possibilities in the search for alien life, spotting more than 50 potenti...

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NASA Kepler Telescope Discovers Five New Planets

AP | SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — NASA's new planet-hunting telescope has found two mystery objects that are too hot to be planets and too small to be stars. The Ke...

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Kepler Telescope Blasts Into Space To Find Other Earths

AP | MARCIA DUNN | Posted 05.25.2011

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA's planet-hunting telescope, Kepler, rocketed into space Friday night on a historic voyage to track down other Earths...

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