Made famous in the movie 2001 a Space Odyssey Jupiter’s Moon Europa may make truth out of the science fiction…
Category: Search for Life
Hubble finds water on distant worlds
(Source NASA) – Using the powerful eye of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, two teams of scientists have found faint signatures…
New Life for Planet Hunter Kepler!
For those of us who were saddened when the second of four reaction wheels failed on Kepler and the mission…
Over One Thousand Exoplanets found in Two Decades
(Source PHL @ UPR Arecibo) – The milestone of 1,000 confirmed exoplanets was surpassed today after twenty-one years of discoveries.…
The Top 12 Habitable Exoplanets
(Source PHL @ UPR Arecibo) – According to the Exoplanet Catalog maintained by the Planetary Habitability Laboratory (PHL) of the University of Puerto…
Bad News, No Methane on Mars-Therefore No Life on Mars?
(Source NASA) – Data from NASA’s Curiosity rover has revealed the Martian environment lacks methane. This is a surprise to…
NASA Kepler Exo-Planet Hunter Restoration Attempts Fail
NASA is now looking for a new mission for Kepler. This mission would use only two reaction wheels now that…
NASA Kepler Recovery Continues, Wheel Two Shows Hope.
The primary tool in the search for exo-Earths may return to service. Recently the second of four reaction wheels failed…
