Book Review – Voyager – By Stephen J. Pyne

This chronicle of the innovative Voyager mission also ponders the nature and meaning of exploration itself.By By DENNIS OVERBYE

NASA’s Kepler Telescope Finds What May Be an Earth-Size Planet

NASA scientists said the body, 1.5 times the diameter of Earth, orbits a Sun-like star 2,000 light-years away.By By KENNETH CHANG

NATIONAL BRIEFING | SCIENCE; Another Planet With Some Crucial Features

Jet Propulsion Laboratory researcher Mark Swain and colleagues discover second planet outside Earth's solar system with some crucial chemical ingredients for life; planet orbits sun-like star in constellation Pegasus, about 150 light years from EarthBy By BLOOMBERG NEWS

NATIONAL BRIEFING | SCIENCE; Kepler Satellite Quickly Spies a Planet

Kepler satellite finds planet in its first 10 days of operation; ease and precision with which Kepler was able to discern planet's presence bodes well for its mission to find Earth-like planetsBy By DENNIS OVERBYE

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A Maybe Planet, Orbiting Its Maybe Sun

Astronomers have published a picture of what they say might be the first image of a planet orbiting another Sun-like star.By By DENNIS OVERBYE

An Icy Discovery on Mars, but Where’s the Water?

It’s the lack of water on Mars that is perplexing NASA scientists.By By KENNETH CHANG

Out of This World, Out of Our Minds

How did you celebrate World U.F.O. Day? You didn’t? Dang.By By JOHN SCHWARTZ

A Doomed Planet, and Scientists Are Lucky to Have Spotted It

A so-called hot Jupiter will crash into its star in a relatively brief time.By By KENNETH CHANG

Anyone Out There?

We've discovered a lot of things in searching for life beyond Earth. Just not life.By By GIOVANNI BIGNAMI