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»» Mars Was Life-Friendly More Recently than Thought
[Tuesday, June 30, 2009] Warm weather near the Martian equator may have melted the ice in ice-rich soils as recently as 2 million years ago, according to a paper published yesterday in "Earth and Planetary Science Letters."
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»» NASA/University team develops new method to find alien oceans
[Sunday, June 28, 2009] NASA-sponsored scientists looking back at Earth with the Deep Impact/EPOXI mission have developed a method to indicate whether Earth-like alien (extrasolar) worlds have oceans.
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»» Space rock yields answers about origins of life on Earth
[Saturday, June 27, 2009] Formic acid, a compound implicated in the origins of life, has been found at record levels on a meteorite that fell onto a frozen Canadian lake in 2000.
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»» Salt Finding from NASA's Cassini Hints at Ocean within Saturn Moon
[Wednesday, June 24, 2009] For the first time, scientists working on NASA's Cassini mission have detected sodium salts in ice grains of Saturn's outermost ring.
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»» The Mars Gravity Biosatellite Program Is Closing Down
[Wednesday, June 24, 2009] Unfortunately, with the current economy and priorities at NASA, the time has come to close out the program and look forward to the next adventure.
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»» New Instrument Could Detect Water Underground on Mars
[Wednesday, June 24, 2009] With the whoosh of compressed gas and the whir of unspooling wire, a team of Boulder scientists and engineers tested a new instrument prototype that might be used to detect groundwater deep inside Mars.
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»» Snowball Earth: Antarctica As A Natural Laboratory
[Monday, June 22, 2009] Stephen Warren's research concerns the ice conditions that may have existed during a time dubbed Snowball Earth, when ice and snow blanketed the planet so completely that even the ocean surface at the equator froze.
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»» Why Is the Definition of Life So Elusive? Epistemological Considerations
[Saturday, June 20, 2009] A central question of astrobiology concerns the origin and distribution of life in the Universe. For this reason, astrobiology can be considered to fall within the science called transitional biology.
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»» Preservation of Biological Markers in Clasts Within Impact Melt Breccias from the Haughton Impact Structure, Devon Island
[Saturday, June 20, 2009] The 39+/-2Ma Haughton impact structure on Devon Island comprises a thick target succession of sedimentary rocks, mainly carbonates.
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»» Effects of a Spaceflight Environment on Heritable Changes in Wheat Gene Expression
[Saturday, June 20, 2009] Once it was established that the spaceflight environment was not a drastic impediment to plant growth, a remaining space biology question was whether long-term spaceflight exposure could cause changes in subsequent generations.
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