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Citizen Planet Hunters Help Scientists Locate Distant Worlds

Kepler project scientists join forces with a crowdsourcing research website and quickly bag two new exoplanets.READ»

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New Earthly Extremophile Bacteria Could Live on Mars

A new type of extremophile life has been discovered in Chile that may help us recognize what life on Mars may look like--and that will undoubtedly help in the search for discovering that life, should it exist. Scientists pondering ...READ»

NASA's Kepler Telescope Ready to Seek For Strange New Earth-Like Worlds

NASA's set to launch an extraordinary satellite today that has a particularly exciting mission. Kepler is being called the first spacecraft with the ability to peer at distant stars and distinguish if a particular type of planet is ...READ»