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»» Spotting Volcanoes on Alien Worlds Possible
[Tuesday, September 7, 2010] Now that astronomers are finding rocky worlds orbiting distant stars, they're asking the next logical questions: Do any of those worlds have volcanoes? And if so, could we detect them? The answer to the latter is a qualified "Yes."
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»» Mars Phoenix Findings Help Explain Viking Lander Results
[Friday, September 3, 2010] Experiments prompted by a 2008 surprise from NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander suggest that soil examined by NASA's Viking Mars landers in 1976 may have contained carbon-based chemical building blocks of life.
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»» New NASA HD App for iPad With Expanded Content Available Free
[Thursday, September 2, 2010] NASA has unveiled NASA App HD, a new mobile application designed for the iPad. The application is available free of charge at the App Store from Apple.
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»» Spectrum of Young Exoplanet Yields Surprising Results
[Wednesday, September 1, 2010] Astronomers at the University of Hawaii have measured the temperature of a young gas-giant planet around another star using the W. M. Keck Observatory, and the results are puzzling
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»» Richest Planetary System Discovered - Up to 7 Planets Orbiting a Sun-like Star
[Tuesday, August 24, 2010] Astronomers using ESO's world-leading HARPS instrument have discovered a planetary system containing at least five planets, orbiting the Sun-like star HD 10180.
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»» NASA To Announce Latest Findings By Kepler Spacecraft
[Monday, August 23, 2010] NASA will hold a media teleconference Thursday, Aug. 26, at 1 p.m. EDT to discuss the Kepler spacecraft's latest discovery about an intriguing planetary system.
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»» Pulverized Planet Dust May Lie Around Double Stars
[Monday, August 23, 2010] Tight double-star systems might not be the best places for life to spring up, according to a new study using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
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»» Ancient microbes responsible for breathing life into ocean 'deserts'
[Monday, August 23, 2010] Billions of years ago, ancient oceanic microbes catalyzed the transformation from an oxygen-poor atmosphere to an oxygen-rich one, paving the way for complex life to develop.
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»» Astronaut Muscles Waste in Space
[Friday, August 20, 2010] Astronaut muscles waste away on long space flights reducing their capacity for physical work by more than 40%, according to research published online in the Journal of Physiology.
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»» Geologists revisit the Great Oxygenation Event
[Thursday, August 19, 2010] Four billion years ago the earth's atmosphere was a deadly mixture of gases spewed forth by volcanoes, such as nitrogen and its oxides, carbon dioxide, methane, ammonia, sulfur dioxide and hydrogen sulfide.
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