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Research Says Mars Is Too Dry to Support Any Life

By UCN on February 5, 2012 8:06 AM

In this artist's rendering, the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover examines a rock on Mars with a set of tools at the end of its arm. (JPL-Caltech/NASA/Associated Press)

Planet's relatively brief wet period occurred billions of years ago

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NASA: 'Alien' Matter Detected from Outside Our Solar System

By UCN on February 1, 2012 11:12 AM

Artist's impression of NASA's IBEX spacecraft exploring the edge of our solar system.

For the very first time, a NASA spacecraft has detected matter from outside our solar system -- material that came from elsewhere in the galaxy, researchers announced today (Jan. 31).

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Radiation the Cause for Space Probe Failure, Russia Says

By UCN on February 1, 2012 11:12 AM

In this Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011 file photo the Zenit-2SB rocket with the Phobos-Ground probe blasts off from its launch pad at the Cosmodrome Baikonur, Kazakhstan. (AP Photo/Russian Roscosmos space agency, File)

The head of Russia's space agency said Tuesday that cosmic radiation was the most likely cause of the failure of a Mars moon probe that crashed to Earth this month, and suggested that a low-quality imported component may have been vulnerable to the radiation.

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Agnostic David Attenborough Says 'There Might Be a God'

By UCN on January 31, 2012 6:26 AM

Belief in God and evolution not incompatible, says Sir David Attenborough

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Huge Pythons Responsible for Disappearance of Everglades Mammals

By UCN on January 30, 2012 10:05 PM

In this November 14, 2009 photo provided by the University of Florida, University of Florida researchers hold a 162-pound Burmese python captured in Everglades National Park, Fla. Therese Walters, left, Alex Wolf and Michael R. Rochford, right, are holding the 15-foot snake shortly after the python ate a six-foot American alligator. (AP Photo/ University of Florida, Michael R. Rochford)

A burgeoning population of huge pythons - many of them pets that were turned loose by their owners when they got too big - appears to be wiping out large numbers of raccoons, opossums, bobcats and other mammals in the Everglades, a study says.

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Swedish Treasure Hunters Capture Images of Mysterious Object in Baltic Sea

By UCN on January 30, 2012 9:33 PM

A mysterious imprint discovered by ocean explorers bears a bizarre resemblence to the Millennium Falcon in 'Star Wars.' (CNN; LUCASFILM)

Deep down on the bottom of the Baltic Sea, Swedish treasure hunters think they have made the find of a lifetime.

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Solar Storm Brings Show of Northern Lights

By UCN on January 25, 2012 5:56 AM

The aurora borealis, or Northern Lights, are seen near the city of Tromsoe, northern Norway, late Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Scanpix Norway, Rune Stoltz Bertinussen)

A storm from the broiling sun turned the chilly northernmost skies of Earth into an ever-changing and awe-provoking art show of northern lights on Tuesday.

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Largest Solar Storm Since 2005 to Shower Earth with Radioactive Particles

By UCN on January 24, 2012 7:29 AM

The largest solar storm for seven years is expected to send a shower of radioactive solar particles racing towards Earth at almost 1,400 miles a second this week, according to NASA.

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Solar Storm Brings Northern Lights to Scotland, Northern England

By UCN on January 24, 2012 7:21 AM

The Northern Lights dancing across the horizon were photographed in Britain. The aurora borealis are rarely seen in the UK, but specialist photographer Reed Ingram Weir took this photograph on the A1 near Alnwick Northumberland. (MASONS)

The Northern Lights have lit up the skies above Scotland and northern England after the biggest solar storm in more than six years bombarded Earth with radiation.

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Sumatran Elephant In Danger of Extinction Within 30 Years

By UCN on January 24, 2012 7:20 AM

Sumatran elephants take a bath on a river in Tesso Nilo national park, Riau Province, Indonesia (EPA)

The Sumatran elephant could be extinct in the wild within three decades unless immediate steps are taken to slow the breakneck pace of deforestation, environmentalists warned Tuesday.

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