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On September 8, 2008, scholars from the University of Toronto published the first photograph of a possible planet orbiting a sunlike star. The planet, a companion to the solar mass ...
updated 2010-07-17 05:19:24
Extremophiles are organisms that live in environments generally considered too extreme to be hospitable to most other organisms. This can include extremes of temperature, pressure and acidity. In fact, some ...
updated 2012-05-02 21:54:47
Alien is a popular term for an Extraterrestrial Biological Entity, or EBE - an intelligent, sentient life form originating from outside the Earth, a being from elsewhere in the Universe. Some ...
updated 2010-07-16 21:13:20
A hydrothermal vent is a fissure in a planet's surface from which geothermally heated water issues. Hydrothermal vents are commonly found near volcanically active places, areas where tectonic plate ...
updated 2012-04-18 18:46:30
The lakes of Titan, a moon of Saturn, are bodies of liquid ethane and methane that have been detected by the Cassini–Huygens space probe, and had been suspected long ...