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»» Europa's Ocean Contains Enough Oxygen to Support Life
[Thursday, October 8, 2009] New research suggests that there may be plenty of oxygen available in Europa's ocean to support life, a hundred times more oxygen than previously estimated.
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»» AMASE 2009 blog: Searching for Martian life... on Earth. And farewell, Svalbard!
[Tuesday, October 6, 2009] As we prepare for future "Search for Life' NASA and ESA missions, a crucial goal is also to test 'life' i.e., the biology is also one of our primary tasks.
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»» AMASE 2009 blog: Testing instruments for ExoMars and Mars Science Laboratory
[Tuesday, October 6, 2009] How can we be sure that instruments that will be sent on future Martian missions will work properly? How do we know that they will obtain accurate and precise measurements?
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»» Twin 10-meter Telescopes Spot Double Dust Cloud
[Saturday, September 26, 2009] Linking the twin, 10-meter telescopes in Hawaii, astronomers at the W. M. Keck Observatory discovered an extended, double-layered dust disk orbiting 51 Ophiuchi, a star that is 410 light-years from Earth.
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»» Antarctic meteorites offer insights into history of early solar system
[Friday, September 25, 2009] Field researchers in Antarctica have returned with more than 17,500 meteorites over the 30-plus years that the extraterrestrial material has been collected from the frozen continent.
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»» NASA Spacecraft Sees Ice on Mars Exposed by Meteor Impacts
[Thursday, September 24, 2009] NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed frozen water hiding just below the surface of mid-latitude Mars. The spacecraft's observations were obtained from orbit after meteorites excavated fresh craters on the Red Planet.
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»» Three Separate Spacecraft Have Detected Significant Water On the Moon: Why Has NASA Waited So Long To Say So?
[Wednesday, September 23, 2009] Three articles will appear in Science Magazine tomorrow. Three different spacecraft - three different instruments - all saying the same thing about the presence of water and other materials on the Moon.
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»» Radar Map of Buried Mars Layers Matches Climate Cycles
[Tuesday, September 22, 2009] New, three-dimensional imaging of Martian north-polar ice layers by a radar instrument on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is consistent with theoretical models of Martian climate swings during the past few million years.
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»» Astrobiology Science Conference (AbSciCon 2010) First Announcement
[Saturday, September 19, 2009] The Astrobiology Science Conference 2010 will be held at the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) April 26-29, 2010.
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»» NASA Researchers Make First Discovery of Life's Building Block in Comet
[Saturday, September 19, 2009] NASA scientists have discovered glycine, a fundamental building block of life, in samples of comet Wild 2 returned by NASA's Stardust spacecraft.
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