"Planets crowd the universe," and other space links

Jeff Foust reviews The Crowded Universe, a new book on "the search for living planets".

What lessons can be drawn from the CERN and the development of the Large Hadron Collider that might help the cause of space exploration?

Using Mars to good effect, Dawn swung by yesterday on its way to the asteroid belt to orbit and explore the protoplanets Vesta and Ceres in 2011 and 2015, respectively.

Cassini snapped this natural color picture of Saturn, released recently.

Well as long as you're going - Space Prizes links to three articles about the business deals of Google Lunar X-Prize competitors.

Wayne

Photo Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute