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In a groundbreaking announcement at the 55th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference held in The Woodlands, Texas, scientists revealed the discovery of a giant volcano and possible sheet of buried glacier ice in the eastern part of Mars’ Tharsis volcanic province…

$200M gift propels scientific research in the search for life beyond Earth

Personal computers are now scanning exoplanets for signs of intelligent life.

Exploding Stars Make Key Ingredient in Sand, Glass - A new study using observations by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reports for the first time that silica — one of the most common minerals found on Earth — is formed when massive stars explode.

Kepler 186f - First Earth-sized Planet Orbiting in Habitable Zone of Another Star