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Smithsonian July 2007 Eric Jaffe	Life Beyond Earth An ocean on Mars. An Earth-like planet light years away. The evidence is mounting, but are astronomers ready to say we're not alone?
Smithsonian October 2006 Robert Irion	The Planet Hunters Never mind the demotion of Pluto to a dwarf planet. Astronomers have found about 200 planets orbiting other stars, and they say it's only a matter of time before they discover another Earth.
AskMen.com	Earth-Like Planet Found Astronomers have finally found a place outside our solar system where there's a firm place to stand -- if only it weren't so broiling hot.
Popular Mechanics December 16, 2008 Matthew Hutson	5 Projects Ask if Life on Earth Began as Alien Life in Space For years, scientists have considered the possibility of exogenesis, the idea that life arrived on Earth from another planet, and not just the building blocks of life, but organisms that were ready to rock and roll when they arrived.
Salon.com December 2, 1999 William Speed Weed	Master of the universe With the existence of six new planets announced just this week, Geoffrey Marcy is racking up "extrasolar" discoveries like Mark McGwire racks up homers.
Chemistry World December 17, 2007 Simon Hadlington	Blow to Hopes for Life on Mars Organic molecules found on rocks from Mars may not be the remnants of ancient Martian microbes after all.
Wired December 2004 Steven Kotler	Next Stop, Europa The most promising place in the solar system to find life isn't Mars - it's Europa, one of 16 moons orbiting Jupiter.
Chemistry World July 3, 2015	Getting the measure of Mars Sophisticated analytical chemistry is studying the history -- and habitability -- of our neighboring planet, as Andy Extance discovers.
Chemistry World April 2006 Richard Corfield	The Greenhouse in the Sky? Venus could be the ultimate example of what can happen when an atmospheric greenhouse effect runs away. The European Space Agency's Venus Express probe is focusing on understanding the planet's atmosphere.
Wired December 2004 Kim Stanley Robinson	Taming the Red Planet Terraforming Mars - grafting an Earth-like atmosphere and ecology onto that rocky and poisonous planet - remains a great idea that is likely to become one of the supreme engineering projects of humankind.
Geotimes March 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Young Planets Collide Size mattered, astronomers say, when it came to whether or not material in our early solar system stuck together to become today's terrestrial planets. New models suggest that collisions between large objects did not always result in those objects combining, as previously thought.
Popular Mechanics October 28, 2009 Karen Rowan	9 Wildest Exoplanets Ever Spotted A team of European planet hunters has uncovered a bonanza of 32 new exoplanets, planets outside our solar system.
Geotimes December 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Space: Alien Worlds Finding Earth Analogues in Space: Q&A with planetary scientist David Stevenson.
Scientific American November 7, 2005 Mark Alpert	Red Star Rising Small, cool stars may be hot spots for life
Wired December 2004 Frank Drake	The E.T. Equation, Recalculated Fifty years ago, those of us who dreamed about finding extraterrestrials thought we knew where to look: planets with temperatures somewhere between the freezing and boiling points of water.
Chemistry World July 8, 2014 Ian Crawford	Lucky planet Lucky Planet is a well-written, engaging, and thought-provoking addition to discussions of extraterrestrial life.
IEEE Spectrum April 2012 Gregory L. Matloff	Deflecting Asteroids A solar sail could use light to nudge an earthbound rock into an orbit we could live with
Wired June 2001 Oliver Morton	Shadow Science Looking for Earth-like planets outside the solar system? Bill Borucki's cheap little spacecraft can help you find a few hundred, fast...
Geotimes July 2007 Carolyn Gramling	Mercury's Gooey Center Mercury, the closest planet to the sun, has a large core, which scientists now know is partially molten and therefore could create a magnetic field around the planet.
Wired December 2004 Brendan I. Koerner	NASA's Germbuster A cell biologist at the College of Charleston in South Carolina, Noonan chairs this committee charged with keeping future spacecraft from contaminating distant worlds and vice-versa.
Scientific American November 2007 Robert Zubrin	Don't Wreck the Mars Program Devoting all the funding to just one mission would be a mistake.
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Popular Mechanics August 5, 2008 Joe Pappalardo	NASA, Scientists Not Ready to Give Up on Martian Life Despite today's findings of toxic perchlorate in Martian soil, NASA is not ready to write off life on Mars. Leading space scientists point to earthbound extremeophiles that process the substance.
Popular Mechanics March 6, 2009 Mark Wolverton	Can KEPLER Help Us Find Earth's Twin? With the latest universe-gazing technology, KEPLER (along with Hubble and the most advanced ground-based telescopes) will give extrasolar planet hunters a boost in the search for Earth-like planets.
Chemistry World December 19, 2008 Lewis Brindley	Carbonates Confirmed on Mars New snapshots of Mars appear to show large outcrops of carbonate-bearing rocks, indicating that regions of the Red Planet could once have been an ideal environment for life to thrive.
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Geotimes December 2006 Sally Adee	Meteorite Pre-Dates Solar System A team of NASA researchers recently reported finding organic material in Tagish Lake meteorite fragments that pre-dates the solar system.
Popular Mechanics July 30, 2008 Joe Pappalardo	Phoenix Mission 'Definitely' Finds Water Ice on Mars: Update The Phoenix mission will be extended, but team leaders aren't sure how long the lander will last, so they're gathering as much information and evidence on Mars as possible.
IEEE Spectrum November 2007 Saswato R. Das	Terraforming Mars The renewed focus on Mars has rejuvenated the idea of terraforming Mars, which once belonged to the realm of science fiction, but is becoming increasingly possible today.
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Popular Mechanics December 3, 2008 Glenn Harlan Reynolds	Why I Hope There's No Life on Mars If Mars is lifeless, that will make exploring -- and later settling -- the planet much easier.
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Popular Mechanics December 2005 Aldrin & Noland	Roadmap To Mars So far, NASA's plan to reach the red planet has been short on detail. Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin unveils his own step-by-step proposal for mankind's next giant leap.
Geotimes July 2004 Sara Pratt	Core Compositions Scientists are working to explain the differences in composition between Earth and Mars.
IEEE Spectrum August 2007 Barry E. DiGregorio	China Reaches For the Red Planet A joint project with Russia anticipates retrieving soil from the Martian moon Phobos.
Popular Mechanics June 3, 2008 Kevin Hall	Phoenix Lander May Have Found Ice on Mars. So What? Samples of ice could contain details of potential clues as to whether or not the planet could have supported life.
Chemistry World April 6, 2011 Mike Brown	Mars chemistry reveals how red planet cooled The chemistry of volcanic rock on Mars offers a picture of the thermal history of the planet, according to scientists in France. The findings could provide a reference point for the evolution of other planets, they say.
Popular Mechanics July 2007 Noah Shachtman	How NASA's New Telescope Chases Planets NASA is launching its first-ever planet-hunting mission next year, sending the Kepler spacecraft on a quest to find 1000 more planets -- and 50 new Earths.
Chemistry World December 2009 Jon Cartright	Reading between the lines Since its emergence in the mid 19th century, spectroscopy has become the most important tool in astronomy, and in recent years there has been no end to its new discoveries.
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IEEE Spectrum January 2008 Barry E. DiGregorio	No Asteroid Impact on Mars After All The expected asteroid impact would have let scientists study crater formation and underlying Martian geology.
Geotimes September 2005 Kathryn Hansen	Tristar Planet A recent planet found in a triple-star system perplexes astronomers because, according to current models of planetary formation, it should not exist.
Chemistry World August 2009 Richard Corfield	One giant leap NASA's Apollo missions answered many questions about the Moon - and as NASA unveils plans to return, lunar chemistry will again play a prominent role
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