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These are some of the highlights of the last three years in the life of our star. 

Scientists are hoping that some of 3,000-plus possible exoplanets discovered by NASA’s Kepler mission have moons that exist outside a circumplanetary “habitable edge.”

 

1. The Topless Revolution Targets Putin  “Putin leered like Benny Hill at a topless protester,” was the headline on The Reliable Source. Gawker has the video of Putin giving the thumb’s up. […]

NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover. Big Data Predicts the Oscars. These are among the brainiest memes included in today’s Mind Memes.   

NASA’s recent discovery of two Earth-like planets within the Kepler-62 solar system – the most Earth-like planets ever detected – is creating excitement in the scientific community that we’re close to finding […]

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No bodies of water exist on Mars. But they used to, thousands or perhaps millions of years ago, as this photo attests.

Business work today is about grit, perseverance and a good work ethic.  This is where our kids fall down.

NASA has announced that its most recent Mars rover, Curiosity, recently found evidence of substantial water stores present on the planet’s surface billions of years ago. 

The discovery, announced by NASA on Wednesday, is encouraging but still needs to be corroborated. That’s the job of scientists who are conducting experiments deep beneath the Earth’s surface.

Spacewarps.org is the newest project requesting public assistance with finding unusual astronomical objects: in this case, systems containing massive galaxies that bend light around them.

Is innovation best pursued through fear or through long-term thinking?  

1. Don’t Let Math Get in the Way of Big Ideas “Many of the most successful scientists in the world today are mathematically no more than semiliterate.” E.O. Wilson shares […]

The explosion of a meteor above the Russian city of Chelyabinsk in mid-February, while sparing lives and damage to the city, served as a stark reminder of Earth’s vulnerability to asteroids. 

How might we apply the notion of a “Sputnik moment” to our own lives, as we look for those occasions that compel us to invent for tomorrow?

While this is one violent storm, scientists were actually the most surprised by how much the hurricane seems to resemble one on Earth.

“It’s not crazy,” Bill Nye tells us, that we could hear radio signals from other civilizations.

It’s the closest star system found in almost a century, and will hopefully serve as “an excellent hunting ground for planets” and a possible destination for a future manned mission.

Images from NASA’s Cassini probe show a weather phenomenon that’s never been observed on any other planet in the solar system, including ours.

The isotope has been used to power spacecraft for decades, but the US had been getting its supply from Russia since 1988. That agreement ended in 2010, and now some scientists say the stockpile is “alarmingly low.”

The icy surface of this Jupiter moon hides a vast body of liquid that most scientists believe is water. Thanks to improved spectrometry, they now believe that that water may be salty.

The vastness of our scientific ignorance is especially evident when it comes to explaining how life arose on earth.

Not quite yet…but a new study provides proof that global warming is extending the growing season in the upper Northern Hemisphere, making some areas greener than they have been in (literally) ages.

According to a new study published in this week’s Nature, icy particles inside the rings erode into the upper atmosphere and eventually form rain water that falls on parts of the planet.

The fear of death. That’s how a friend of mine who works in television described the essential ingredient of hit reality shows like Ice Road Truckers. That’s why people watch. […]

Kepler 37-B is about the size of our moon, yet is a little too close to its parent star for human comfort.

The race to build the world’s first 3D-printed house is on. Italian civil engineer Enrico Dini (the subject of an upcoming documentary called “The Man Who Prints Houses”) has plans to print […]

Last week’s events have asteroid hunters feeling both vindicated and excited as they step up efforts to develop better detection methods.

Today’s announcement of NASA’s deal with Bigelow Aerospace for the addition of an inflatable module to the International Space Station hints at the company’s future goals.