Water Water Everywhere…in our solar system.
Water is not a luxury of Earth, in fact, it is the most abundant compound in the universe because it is composed of the first and third most abundant elements,…
Category Archives: Search for Life
Vega – Two Asteroid Belts and the Possibility of Planets
(Source NASA) – Astronomers have discovered what appears to be a large asteroid belt around the star Vega, the second brightest star in northern night skies. The scientists used data…
NASA Kepler hints at over 250 new potentially habitable worlds
NASA Kepler released last month 18,406 planet-like detection events from its last three year mission to search for exoplanets (Kepler Q1-Q12 TCE). Further analysis is required by the NASA Kepler…
The Potentially Habitable Universe Around Us
More exoplanets than expected in the first year of the Habitable Exoplanets Catalog. The first confirmed extrasolar planets, or exoplanets, were discovered from the Arecibo Observatory twenty years ago, in 1992. These…
Two Nearby Habitable Candidate Worlds found at Tau Ceti
An international group of scientist led by Mikko Toumi, from the University of Hertfordshire, announced the potential discovery of five planets around the nearby star Tau Ceti (aka HD 10700 or Gliese…
Need Microscope on Mars now, and Thirty Years ago on Viking.
Why have we not taken this basic instrument to Mars? Sometimes the most obvious things somehow get lost when large complex missions are being planned and we can’t see the…
NASA Announces Mars MSL findings…Viking Lander history repeats itself.
History Repeats itself….sigh NASA held a news conference today to reveal what one of the program scientists said was an announcement “for the history books”. Well……..if the history books are about how…
NASA’s Big Mars Announcment Tomorrow 12/3/12-Worth the wait?
Exciting news or a Big Yawn? (Update 12/3/12 see announcement at this link.) Tomorrow NASA is going to make an announcement related to a finding by the Mars Rover and…
