Category Archives: Search for Life

Mars Ocean

Mars held more water than Earth’s Arctic Ocean

A primitive ocean on Mars held more water than Earth’s Arctic Ocean, according to NASA scientists who, using ground-based observatories, measured Mars water signatures in the Red Planet’s atmosphere. Scientists…

NASA Kepler's Hal

1000 Exo-Planets verified by Kepler, 8 are possible Earths

(NASA) – How many stars like our sun host planets like our Earth? NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope continuously monitored more than 150,000 stars beyond our solar system, and to date…

methane might be added to Mars' atmosphere

NASA finds New Tantalizing Clues for Current and Past life found on Mars

(NASA) –  Mars Curiosity rover has measured a tenfold spike in methane, an organic chemical, in the atmosphere around it and detected other organic molecules in a rock-powder sample collected…

Mars Lake

Rover Finds Clues to How Water Helped Shape Martian Landscape

(NASA) – Observations by NASA’s Curiosity Rover indicate Mars’ Mount Sharp was built by sediments deposited in a large lake bed over tens of millions of years. This interpretation of…

SETI dish

Why YOU Should Join the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI)

If you have not heard of it the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI, has been listening for decades now for a hint of a radio broadcast from outside our…

WASP-43b

Hubble Makes Most Detailed Map Yet Of Exoplanet

(NASA, STSci) – A team of scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have made the most detailed global map yet of the glow from a planet orbiting another star, revealing…

Artists concept

Hubble finds three astonishingly dry exoplanets

(NASA) – Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have gone looking for water vapor in the atmospheres of three planets orbiting stars similar to the Sun — and have come…

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Astronomers Confounded By Massive Rocky World

(NASA) – At the Meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) a team of astronomers from Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) announced that they have discovered a new type of…