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On the Scene: The Drake Equation: All in the family

Nadia Drake interviews the creator of the formula for predicting how many detectable civilizations exist in the Milky Way

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Mars' history is a fluid situation

New analysis challenges watery, warm picture of planet's surface

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Distant world looks ripe for life

Planet hunt spots most Earthlike orb yet

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Distant world looks too ripe for life

Though in the habitable zone, newly discovered planet probably not habitable

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First Earth-sized planets netted

Planet hunt finds two orbs of terrestrial proportions orbiting a distant sunlike star

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Toasty planets circle stellar heart

Roasted remains orbit former red giant

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More like Faux-malhaut b

Distant point of light may not have been a planet after all

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Solar storm

Solar flare sets off auroras around the Arctic Circle

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Spacecraft captures dust from interstellar wind

Particles giving clues to composition of space beyond solar system

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Distant planet an exotic water-world

Orb is unlike anything in the solar system

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Ancient impact may explain moon’s magnetic mystery

Anomalies near crater suggest scattering of iron-rich debris

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Titan's haze is dropping

Change in elevation of cloudy layer suggests seasonal cycles

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Vesta seems more planet than asteroid

Spacecraft explorations reveal a layered, beat-up body

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Deleted Scenes: The Newtonian physics (or not) of Angry Birds Space

Ca-Caw! Experts weigh in on the basic principles featured in the birdiverse

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Hunt for cosmic ray source falls short

Experiment’s dearth of neutrinos may burst gamma-ray bubble

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Dark matter search turns up empty

New calculations suggest dearth of invisible substance in solar neighborhood

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Earth took a multibillion-year beating

Estimates grow for length of the Late Heavy Bombardment

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Deleted Scenes: A result of zero doesn't always mean zero results

Two recent astrophysics studies found meaningful results in nothing

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Ancient scribes may have banked on blinking binary

For the Egyptians, luck may have been written in the Demon Star

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A star is torn

Black hole’s stellar feast caught by telescopes

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