Planets Archive
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Are we Alone in Space?
Posted on November 16, 2014 | No Comments“Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the […] -
Earth’s Relationship with Water Might Go Back Further than we Thought
Posted on November 8, 2014 | No CommentsWater is an extremely important component of the Earth and has shaped its surface and interior throughout its 4.5 billion year history. But when did […] -
A New Tool to Detect Water on Mars
Posted on October 18, 2014 | No CommentsEarth and Mars both show evidence for a wide range of volcanism. However, constraining the eruptive styles on Mars is trickier than on Earth due […] -
Mars Rocks: What the geology of the Red Planet reveals about its ancient atmosphere
Posted on July 25, 2013 | No CommentsThe differences in the chemical composition between meteorites from Mars and the surface rocks on the planet have long puzzled geologists and made the modeling […] -
Life on Mars: A Curious Investigation
Posted on February 21, 2013 | No CommentsSince it landed on Mars in 2012, the Curiosity Rover has been exploring the Gale Crater in one of the most ambitious space missions to […] -
Earth sized planets discovered around neighbouring star
Posted on December 24, 2012 | No CommentsThe star τau Ceti has been the subject of a pioneering new study investigating stellar jitter, or to you and me, stellar noise. This study […]