Search for Life
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Nearby Super-Earth with the Right Temperature but Extreme Seasons
Gliese 832 c is the nearest best habitable world candidate so far (PHL @ UPR Arecibo) - An international team of astronomers, led…
Oldest Known Potentially Habitable Exoplanet Found
The planets around the nearby red-dwarf Kapteyn's star are over twice as old as Earth (PHL @ UPR Arecibo) -…
100 Million Planets in our Galaxy May Harbor Complex Life
One Percent of All Exoplanets May Be Suitable for Complex Organisms (PHL @ UPR Arecibo) - The number of planets on…
Planet Hunter Kepler new mission APPROVED!
The Kepler Spacecraft has found more planets than any other mission in history. After completing it's primary mission it experienced…