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Scientists Investigate the Possibility of a 'Super Earth'

By Lee SpeigelAug 27th 2010 – 4:13PM
JPL-Caltech / Ames / NASA

JPL-Caltech / Ames / NASA

(Aug. 27) -- You'd think "Super Earth" would be a place where everybody is beautiful. We all drive fancy cars, date super-models and eat like a pig without getting fat. NASA scientists are now using that term to describe a planet similar to Earth in some geological ways, but it may be more of a hellhole than a utopia....

Roswell's Legacy: How a Town Became UFO Central (Part 2)

By Lee SpeigelJul 2nd 2010 – 9:28AM
Joe Raedle, Getty Images

Joe Raedle, Getty Images

Editor's Note: For Part 1 of "Roswell's Legacy: How a Town Became UFO Central," click here. (July 2) -- If you like golf, nature reserves and art museums, Roswell, N.M., might be up your alley. If you also happen to like aliens, UFOs and military secrets, you've hit the mother lode this weekend. Roswell -- population...

Roswell's Legacy: How a Town Became UFO Central (Part 1)

By Lee SpeigelJun 30th 2010 – 10:15AM
Roswell Daily Record

Roswell Daily Record

(June 30) -- Sixty-three years ago, something fell out of the sky near Roswell, N.M., launching decades of speculation about the true nature of the object. Was it an extraterrestrial spacecraft that crashed in 1947, killing its alien occupants, or -- as the military originally claimed -- nothing more than a weather...

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