Water is not a luxury of Earth, in fact, it is the most abundant compound in the universe because it…
Category: Search for Life
Vega – Two Asteroid Belts and the Possibility of Planets
(Source NASA) – Astronomers have discovered what appears to be a large asteroid belt around the star Vega, the second…
NASA Kepler hints at over 250 new potentially habitable worlds
NASA Kepler released last month 18,406 planet-like detection events from its last three year mission to search for exoplanets (Kepler…
The Potentially Habitable Universe Around Us
More exoplanets than expected in the first year of the Habitable Exoplanets Catalog. The first confirmed extrasolar planets, or exoplanets,…
Two Nearby Habitable Candidate Worlds found at Tau Ceti
An international group of scientist led by Mikko Toumi, from the University of Hertfordshire, announced the potential discovery of five…
Need Microscope on Mars now, and Thirty Years ago on Viking.
Why have we not taken this basic instrument to Mars? Sometimes the most obvious things somehow get lost when large…
NASA Announces Mars MSL findings…Viking Lander history repeats itself.
History Repeats itself….sigh NASA held a news conference today to reveal what one of the program scientists said was an announcement “for…
NASA’s Big Mars Announcment Tomorrow 12/3/12-Worth the wait?
Exciting news or a Big Yawn? (Update 12/3/12 see announcement at this link.) Tomorrow NASA is going to make an…
