Latest Blogs

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  February 11, 2013

  Not so super?

  Super Earths might not be super-habitable

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  December 19, 2012

  Exoplanets explained by a genius

  Olivier Guyon gives a TEDYouth talk

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  November 29, 2012

  Lights out

  CoRoT failure may turn out to be mission-fatal

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  November 12, 2012

  Planet-hunting in pajamas

  New online database lets you discover exoplanets from home

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  October 04, 2012

  Tongue-twisting triplet

  A cool new discovery has a cool new name

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  September 24, 2012

  Exo-curricular

  Poetic reflections from a NASA summer

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  August 31, 2012

  Transit tug-of-war

  Timing is everything: 41 new Kepler discoveries confirmed by new method.

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  August 16, 2012

  Mars: Scenic, but lacking amenities

  Is Earth the galaxy's most prime piece of real estate?

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  July 12, 2012

  Honing in on the habitable zone

  Paul Mason and a better "goldilocks zone"

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  July 05, 2012

  Findings in the firehose

  Erik Petigura scratches an Earth-like itch

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  June 22, 2012

  Exos in the boonies

  Can Earths exist in the spaces between galaxies?

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  June 13, 2012

  Northern (exo)posure in Alaska

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  May 31, 2012

  Imagining the dance of double planets

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  May 09, 2012

  An astronomer at the movies

  What lives there?

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  April 17, 2012

  An astronomer at the movies

  Suspending disbelief for 'John Carter of Mars'

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  March 29, 2012

  A pigment of your imagination

  When would aliens have blue skin?

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  February 29, 2012

  Plane puzzler

  Why are solar systems shaped like a disk?

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  February 03, 2012

  Optical obstacle course

  Steve discusses the impact of 'selection effects' on exoplanet searches

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  January 20, 2012

  Solar system shakedown

  How many exoplanets could there really be?

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  January 12, 2012

  Austin announcements

  NASA brings the exos to Texas

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  January 06, 2012

  Earth-like in the ice zone?

  Steve ponders whether life can exist on an ice planet.

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  December 07, 2011

  Guessing game

  Is "best guess" the best way?

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