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WATCH: Vast Martian Dust Devil Stretches 12 Miles High

| Posted 04.11.2012

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by Richard A. Kerr on 5 April 2012, 2:06 PM Earth may have terrifying tornadoes, but when it comes to dust devils, Mars has us b...

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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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E. T. Hunters Explain What Happens If Space Aliens Show Up

Posted 03.30.2012

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It is conceivable that humans could someday discover aliens. We scour the cosmos looking for their radio signals, and though we're not capable of int...

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Deepak Chopra and Vandana Shiva Talk Seeds and GMOs

Alison Rose Levy | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Healthy Food, Farming, Gmos, Sustainable Food, Alison Rose Levy, Earth, Green, Planet, Monsanto, Usda, Ecology, Water, Food Politics, Deepak Chopra, Food Supply, Environment, Food, Bullshit, Vandana Shiva, Deepakhomebasecom, Impact, Green News
Alison Rose Levy

By surveying the versatile ecology of cow dung, even urban dwellers, like me, can see the earthy pragmatism embedded in the Indian worship of cows (and indeed all life) as sacred.

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TODAY: Venus Visible In Daytime Sky, If You Know How To Spot It

Posted 03.26.2012

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By: Geoff Gaherty Published: 03/26/2012 07:03 AM EDT on SPACE.com The planet Venus has been dominating the nighttime sky recently, but did you k...

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Saturn Moon Found To Have Oxygen Atmosphere

Posted 03.05.2012

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By: SPACE.com Staff Published: 03/05/2012 07:15 AM EST on SPACE.com This story was updated at 10 p.m. ET. A NASA spacecraft circling Saturn has...

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Milky Way Awash In Starless 'Rogue' Planets, Study Suggests

Posted 02.26.2012

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By: SPACE.com Staff Published: 02/24/2012 11:44 AM EST on SPACE.com Our Milky Way galaxy may be teeming with rogue planets that ramble through s...

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WATCH: What The Sun Looks Like From Pluto

Posted 02.16.2012

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In the video above, a tiny sun floats through the haze over rocky ground. It's a bleak and alien view, but that's no scene from a science fiction film...

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Is Venus Slowing Down?

Posted 02.13.2012

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By Sid Perkins ScienceNow (Click here for the original article.) Venus, our closest planetary neighbor, has the slowest rotational period of an...

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Gravity Surprise May Affect Search For Habitable Planets

Posted 02.12.2012

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By: Charles Q. Choi, Astrobiology Magazine Contributor Published: 02/11/2012 02:00 PM EST on SPACE.com Alien planets might experience tidal for...

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WATCH: Alien 'Super-Earth' Called Best Bet For Supporting Life

Posted 02.03.2012

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By: Denise Chow Published: 02/02/2012 10:16 AM EST on SPACE.com A potentially habitable alien planet — one that scientists say is the best ca...

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Bizarre "Oozing" Planet Eyed By Astronomers

Posted 01.21.2012

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By: SPACE.com Staff Published: 01/20/2012 03:56 PM EST on Space A new look at an alien planet that orbits extremely close to its par...

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Saturn on Steroids: Ringed Alien World Glimpsed Outside Solar System

| Charles Q. Choi | Posted 01.13.2012

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AUSTIN, Texas – An enigmatic object detected five years ago in space may be a ringed alien world comparable to Saturn, the first such world discove...

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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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Study: Planets Made Of Diamonds Could Exist

The Huffington Post | Timothy Stenovec | Posted 12.11.2011

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It's De Beers' worst nightmare -- huge planets, many times larger than Earth, composed of precious diamonds. But executives at the diamond empire ...

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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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Did 2 Giant Collisions Turn Uranus On Its Side?

| Posted 12.07.2011

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By John Matson (Click here for original article.) NANTES, France—Knock, knock. That's not the start of a joke but the hard-luck history of Uran...

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Astronomer Discovers Planet of Nude Supermodels

Mark C. Miller | Posted 11.11.2011

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"Every researcher here immediately volunteered to work overtime studying the photos and to take the photos home over the weekend to continue their research. Now that's dedication."

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Saving the Planet, one Sleeveless, Baby-Doll Mini-Dress at a Time

Jim Gibbons | Posted 06.20.2011

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Jim Gibbons

When it comes to clothes consumption, our culture's collective mantra is more shop 'til you drop than reduce, reuse, recycle.

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How to Love Mother Earth on Valentine's Day

Avital Binshtock | Posted 05.25.2011

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Avital Binshtock

Monogamy seems greener than the alternative -- think of all that rubber saved from the landfill. If you're not there yet, buy contraceptives from a company that offsets its carbon footprint.

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Bye Bye to a Lovely Planet

Seth Shostak | Posted 05.25.2011

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A new analysis suggests Gliese 581g, the first world found in deep space that might sport an environment comparable to our own, is an apparition -- a planet conjured into existence by other researchers' faulty interpretation of noisy data.

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GJ 581g: Cool Planets Are Hard to Find

Patricia Draznin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Patricia Draznin

Do we really need to search the universe for other planets? Or maybe we're just being human, exploring the unknown, and most of all want to give them a better name, such as American Express Land.

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Life at the SETI Institute: Meet Dr. Franck Marchis -- Video

SETI Institute | Posted 05.25.2011

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This one-minute video excerpt comes from a special colloquium celebrating the 25th anniversary of the SETI Institute.

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Life at the SETI Institute: "Hawking Hawking"

SETI Institute | Posted 05.25.2011

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By Dr. Mark R. Showalter Planetary astronomer at the Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe, SETI Institute It was just a few months...

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Life at the SETI Institute: Cynthia Phillips -- Decipering the Cosmic Puzzle

SETI Institute | Posted 05.25.2011

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By Gail Jacobs An expert in processing spacecraft images of the planets, Dr. Cynthia Phillips is particularly interested in the search for active ge...

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