Space
- Curiosity Detects Spike In Methane, And Other Organic Molecules, On Mars
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In 2009, researchers detected methane on Mars, suggesting the planet may be biologically or geologically active. Now NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has measured a tenfold spike in methane in the atmosphere around it and detected other organic molecules ...
Article - News Staff - Dec 17 2014 - 7:15pm
- The Origin Of Theta Auroras Revealed
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Auroras are the most visible manifestation of the sun's effect on Earth, but many aspects of these spectacular displays are still poorly understood. One particular type of very high-latitude aurora is known as a theta aurora-- seen from above it look ...
Article - News Staff - Dec 18 2014 - 6:35pm
- Challenges for Orion and SLS: An Interview with GAO Director
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Blog Post - Tomasz Nowakowski - Dec 21 2014 - 5:11pm
- German Students Aim to Put Cyanobacteria on Mars to Generate Oxygen
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Mars is a very harsh and hostile environment for future human explorers and like any other known planet it has no breathable air. ...
Blog Post - Tomasz Nowakowski - Jan 4 2015 - 12:43pm
- KKs3: The Milky Way Gets A New Dwarf Galaxy Neighbor
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Our Milky Way is part of a cluster of more than 50 galaxies that make up the ‘Local Group’, a collection that includes the famous Andromeda galaxy and many other far smaller objects. And now one more, a tiny and isolated dwarf galaxy almost 7 million light ...
Article - News Staff - Dec 23 2014 - 10:00am
- Rosetta Instrument Will Make Invaluable Discoveries, Says ESA Scientist Matt Taylor
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On Dec. 10th, ESA announced the latest important discovery regarding comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. Rosetta spacecraft orbiting the comet has found the water vapor from its target to be significantly different to that found on Earth. ...
Blog Post - Tomasz Nowakowski - Jan 4 2015 - 12:32pm
- A Brief History Of Exo-Earths And The Search For Extraterrestrial Life
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Artist’s impression shows a sunset seen from the super-Earth Gliese 667 Cc. The brightest star in the sky is the red dwarf Gliese 667 C, which is part of a triple star system. ...
Article - The Conversation - Dec 26 2014 - 4:30pm
- Keep Calm and Rove on: Oppy Struggles with Flash Memory Problems
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Blog Post - Tomasz Nowakowski - Jan 4 2015 - 12:30pm
- Gyrochronology: How To Accurately Determine The Age Of A Star
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By observing and surveying 30 cool solar-type stars in the 2.5 Billion-year-old cluster NGC 6819 an international research team has created an analytical procedure for accurately determining the ages of stars with knowledge of their masses and rotation pe ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 12 2015 - 8:30am
- Recipe For A New Earth: One Cup Silicon, 1/4 Tsp Sulfur, Dash Of Asteroid Water...
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How might you make a new Earth? Our Terran "test kitchen" has given us a detailed recipe, it just wasn't clear how transposable it was in other areas, the same way a recipe in Los Angeles might not work as well in Denver. Now, astronomers ha ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 5 2015 - 6:38pm