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Steven Vogt Stands by Claim of Planet in Habitable Zone of Gliese 581

After Steven Vogt and his team announced the discovery of a planet in the habitable zone of Gliese 581 in late September 2010, other astronomers failed to confirm the discovery. Yet, as Dr. Vogt told EarthSky, the failure to confirm does not mean the planet is not there.READ»

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Chances of E.T.s Increase: Remote Solar System Found, a Bit Like Ours

Astronomers have found the biggest cluster of exoplanets ever, the first in 15 years. The star at the center of the discovery is Sun-like, and there may even be an Earth-y planet still hiding in the data.READ»

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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»

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Saturn v. Uranus

General Motors should re-badge Saturn as "Uranus," with the slogan, "You Bet Uranus." The marketing possibilities are as endless as GM's stupidity.READ»

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What Will Solar Sail-Powered Spaceships Tell Us About Space?

The world's first solar-sail-powered spacecraft, Cosmos 1, met its demise in 2005 when it fell into the ocean before ever reaching orbit. But dreams of solar sails propelling spaceships haven't died, and Carl Sagan's Planetary ...READ»

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Looking for Signs of Intelligent Marketing Life - Part 2

Radiant marketing is a simple metaphor with the sun representing a business and the planets the customers. Your job as a business owner is to keep the sun burning bright and not fade into a black hole, with marketing being key to that effort. So where does social media marketing fall in this planetary metaphor?READ»

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How Will Robots See in 2018? [exclusive video]

The team at Imaginary Forces used a combination of military and NASA technology to answer that question for the movie 'Terminator Salvation.' Karin Fong shows us how Terminator's "Machine Vision" was created in this exclusive video.READ»

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Microsoft Apes Google, Adds Worldwide Telescope Space App to Bing Maps

Sheesh, is this going to be Microsoft's enduring attitude? See something that's popular, copy it, try to make it a little better? I mean, there's Zune, Xbox, Bing, Bing Maps...the list goes on, but the newest addition is WorldWide Telescope.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»

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Looking for Signs of Intelligent Marketing Life - Part 1

I once had an idea for a book that compares marketing to the solar system. That metaphor, which I call radiant marketing, is quite apt for describing how marketing efforts are being impacted by new technologies and new ways of connecting with customers and members. It's a simple metaphor, with the sun representing a business and the planets the customers. READ»