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»» Negative Ions a Positive Sign for Liquid Water in Enceladus
[Monday, February 8, 2010] In dives through the water ice plume of Enceladus, the Cassini plasma spectrometer has found unexpected populations of charged molecules and dust that strengthen arguments for the presence of liquid water and the ingredients for life inside the moon.
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»» Life retreated to Antarctica during mass extinction
[Sunday, February 7, 2010] Life on Earth hit a particularly rough patch about 250 million years ago, when about 90 percent of marine species went extinct along with about 70 percent of land organisms, including the only large-scale extinction of insects.
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»» NASA to Study Seeds in Space to Better Understand Plant Growth
[Sunday, February 7, 2010] NASA scientists hope to better understand exactly how and why plants grow differently in space in an experiment named, Tropi. Future astronauts may be able to grow plants as part of life support systems on long-duration space missions.
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»» James Cameron Endorses Commercial Spaceflight, New NASA Plan
[Thursday, February 4, 2010] James Cameron, the writer and director of "Avatar" and "Titanic" has published an op-ed in The Washington Post endorsing commercial human spaceflight and President Obama's new plan for NASA.
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»» Live long and prosper, Xanthoria elegans
[Thursday, February 4, 2010] Space is a hostile environment for living things, but small organisms on the Expose-E experiment unit outside Europe's Columbus ISS laboratory module have resisted the solar UV radiation, cosmic rays, vacuum and varying temperatures for 18 months.
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»» New Technique for Detecting Earth-like Planets
[Wednesday, February 3, 2010] Astronomers have discovered a new ground-based technique to study the atmospheres of planets outside our Solar System, accelerating our search for Earth-like planets with life-related molecules.
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»» New research rejects 80-year theory of 'primordial soup' as the origin of life
[Tuesday, February 2, 2010] Today the 'soup' theory has been over turned in a pioneering paper in BioEssays which claims it was the Earth's chemical energy, from hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor, which kick-started early life.
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»» The Obama Space Vision for NASA: Massive Paradigm Shifts Ahead
[Monday, February 1, 2010] In announcing its $19.0 billion FY 2011 NASA budget today, the Obama Administration has made it very clear that it intends to attempt a paradigm shift in the way that America explores and utilizes space.
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»» Tooling up ExoMars
[Monday, January 18, 2010] ESA and NASA are inviting scientists from across the world to propose instruments for their joint Mars mission, the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter.
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»» Land Ho! Huygens Plunged to Titan Surface 5 Years Ago
[Monday, January 18, 2010] The Huygens probe parachuted down to the surface of Saturn's haze-shrouded moon Titan exactly five years ago on Jan. 14, 2005, providing data that scientists on NASA's Cassini mission to Saturn are still building upon today.
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