http://www.universetoday.com/73646/astronomers-predict-earth-like-habitable-exoplanet-will-be-found-in-2011/

http://www.universetoday.com/73103/extrasolar-volcanoes-may-soon-be-detectable/

And see James Webb Space Telescope - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://bigpeace.com/fgaffney/2010/09/03/dont-look-now-theres-another-population-control-freak-on-the-loose/

When it comes to those who want to destroy the US and make humanity extinct, like John Holdren and ( Read more... )

Could humans live on alien worlds the way they have on Earth from the beginnings of the hominid lineage?

Well, within the Solar System, so far there is just one world capable of supporting our kind of life -- Earth itself. But we could plant bases and even underground colonies on the Moon and Mars, even now -- it's only a matter of going through ( Read more... )

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/26aug_kepler/

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There is another Sun-like star out there with an intriguing family of planets orbiting about and it could be the closest parallel to our own solar system that astronomers have found yet. European astronomers discovered a planetary system containing at least five planets, orbiting the star HD 10180, with evidence that two other planets may be ( Read more... )

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It would be particularly exciting if combustion products -- those produced by ordinary fires, e.g., carbon monoxide, carbon particles (soot), etc. -- were found in the spectrum of an atmopsphere of a planet of roughly the size of Earth and located in its star's Goldilocks Zone, the range of distances from a star at which liquid water could exist on ( Read more... )

http://www.universetoday.com/2010/07/27/did-kepler-scientist-leak-data-um-not-really/

Mainstream media (MSM) is funny. Well, maybe funny isn't the right word, especially when they hose things up and create a story when there really ( Read more... )

http://www.universetoday.com/2010/07/15/hubble-confirms-comet-like-tail-on-vaporizing-planet/