May 2009 Top Stories
»» SETI@home Celebrates 10th Anniversary
[Tuesday, May 19, 2009] The world's largest and longest-running volunteer computing project, SETI@home, celebrates its tenth anniversary this month with 140,000 participants and 235,000 computers powering the search for intelligent signals from space.
»» NASA Study Shows Asteroids May Have Accelerated Life on Earth
[Wednesday, May 20, 2009] A NASA study indicates that an intense asteroid bombardment nearly 4 billion years ago may not have sterilized the early Earth as completely as previously thought. The asteroids, some the size of Kansas, possibly even provided a boost for early life.
»» New Technique Could Find Water on Distant Earth-like Planets
[Tuesday, May 26, 2009] Using instruments aboard the Deep Impact spacecraft, a team of astronomers and astrobiologists has devised a technique to tell whether such a planet harbors liquid water, which in turn could tell whether it might be able to support life.
»» Exploring Antarctica's Lake Bonney - ENDURANCE robot dives into ice-covered lake
[Saturday, May 30, 2009] The robot that scientists deployed last year into ice-covered Lake Bonney in Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valleys isn't small.