Health & Science
Thirty-two planets have been discovered beyond our solar system, which is a step forward in the search for planets like earth. Don’
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Air Date: October 26, 2009
Enormous new ring discovered around Saturn
An enormous ring has been discovered around Saturn by the Spitzer space telescope. The discovery helped solve a long standing mystery abo
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Air Date: October 19, 2009
LCROSS impacted with the moon last Friday. Now that the lunar dust has settled, what did scientists find out about the presence of water
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Air Date: October 12, 2009
The search for water on the moon
This Friday at 7:30 am the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite or LCROSS are both going t
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Air Date: October 5, 2009
Messenger space craft gets close to Mercury
The Messenger space craft gets 142 miles from Mercury. It left earth a few years ago, but orbited around earth first, then Venus and fina
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Air Date: September 28, 2009
A new rocky planet, and the surface is sizzling
The last day of summer is upon us and a new rocky planet has finally been confirmed by scientists. Close to the size of Jupiter, this roc
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Air Date: September 21, 2009
A repaired Hubble telescope is almost like new, which means it has new capabilities to take images that are much improved. Now we can der
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Air Date: September 14, 2009
Plenty of great viewing coming up this Sunday morning when Mars will be visible. Despite the warnings you may have heard about this inter
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Air Date: September 7, 2009
Galileo, an inventor and entrepreneur
This month 400 years ago the astronomer and inventor, Galileo, was presenting his new fangled device, the telescope, to the Venetian cour
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Air Date: August 31, 2009
Could there be another theory of how life got started on earth? Perhaps life came here on a comet. This theory has never been discounted
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Air Date: August 24, 2009
50 thousand years ago a meteor hit the earth creating a crater a mile wide, but we haven’t had anything of that magnitude since the
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Air Date: August 17, 2009
The annual Perseid meteor shower is visible on Wednesday although you may have to catch it before moon rise as the late rising moon may w
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Air Date: August 10, 2009
A full moon on Thursday is really the second half of a solar eclipse that happened two weeks ago. Did you know it’s possible for th
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Air Date: August 3, 2009
The massive planet Jupiter has a bruise on it. What could have caused this huge spot? Was it climate change or from something that crashe
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Air Date: July 27, 2009
Anniversary of the first humans to walk on the surface of the moon
Continuing with the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing Derrick Pitts and Dave Heller discuss this momentous event in human histor
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Air Date: July 20, 2009
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