A primitive ocean on Mars held more water than Earth’s Arctic Ocean, according to NASA scientists who, using ground-based observatories,…
Category: Search for Life
1000 Exo-Planets verified by Kepler, 8 are possible Earths
(NASA) – How many stars like our sun host planets like our Earth? NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope continuously monitored more…
NASA finds New Tantalizing Clues for Current and Past life found on Mars
(NASA) – Mars Curiosity rover has measured a tenfold spike in methane, an organic chemical, in the atmosphere around it…
Rover Finds Clues to How Water Helped Shape Martian Landscape
(NASA) – Observations by NASA’s Curiosity Rover indicate Mars’ Mount Sharp was built by sediments deposited in a large lake…
Why YOU Should Join the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI)
If you have not heard of it the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI, has been listening for decades now…
Hubble Makes Most Detailed Map Yet Of Exoplanet
(NASA, STSci) – A team of scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have made the most detailed global map yet…
Hubble finds three astonishingly dry exoplanets
(NASA) – Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have gone looking for water vapor in the atmospheres of three planets…
Astronomers Confounded By Massive Rocky World
(NASA) – At the Meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) a team of astronomers from Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics…