Mysterious dust and diffuse aurorae envelop the red planet
MAVEN spacecraft spots tiny particles surrounding Mars that could have an interplanetary origin
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How can we find life on distant planets?
Sara Seager describes some of the signatures of life
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Web life: Astrobites
A blog where astronomy PhD students write bite-sized summaries of recent astronomy papers for undergraduates
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European superscope reveals its three ‘first-light’ instruments
Agreements signed for E-ELT's phase 1 instruments with the UK, France, Germany and other European states
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NASA finds Pluto steeped in flowing glaciers and kilometre-high mountains
Dwarf planet is colourful and rich in active geology
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Web life: Cosmic Yarns
A cosmologist blogs about science fiction and the scientific questions it raises
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Solar wind casts a reddish hue over rocky objects
Ion-accelerator experiment could explain why many asteroids are dark red
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Unique, but not exceptional
A book that characterizes life on Earth as "special but not significant" gets Tamara Davis thinking about the interconnectedness of the cosmos
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Web life: EGU Network blogs
A collection of geology, geophysics and earth science blogs written by (mostly) European geoscientists
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Physicists isolate neutrinos from Earth’s mantle for first time
Italy's Borexino detector provides further insights into radioactive heating of the Earth
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