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  • Seeking Signs of Life at the Glacier s Edge : May 17 2012
    Microbes living at the edges of Arctic ice sheets could help researchers find evidence for life on Mars, Jupiter s moon Europa, or Saturn s moon Enceladus.
  • Rare Meteorite Spurs Hunt for Fragments : May 16 2012
    A fragment recovered from the "Sutter s Mill Meteorite," which fell to Earth on April 22, has been generously donated to NASA. Now, research on the meteorite fragment could bring answers to unsolved m
  • Earliest Evidence of Insect Pollination : May 16 2012
    Amber from Cretaceous deposits has revealed the first ever record of insect pollination.
  • Testing Martian Methane on Earth : May 15 2012
    Scientists in Washington state are preparing to conduct ground tests in support of a new Mars mission that could explore the martian atmosphere for signs of life.
  • Opportunity Rolling Again After its 5th Mars Winter : May 15 2012
    NASA s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has driven off of Greeley Haven after surviving yet another martian winter. Opportunity will now make its way toward veins in the bedrock on the northern edge
  • Beautiful Vesta : May 14 2012
    Six papers on results of the Dawn spacecraft s exploration of the protoplanet Vesta were published on May 11, detailing a plethora of new discoveries.
  • The Great Exoplanet Debate : May 14 2012
    The Great Exoplanet Debate, hosted by Astrobiology Magazine during the recent 2012 Astrobiology Science Conference, is now available for viewing online.
  • How Handedness Arises : May 13 2012
    A new study is helping scientists understand how chirality, or handedness, occurs in the majority of proteins and functional molecules in living organisms on Earth.
  • Ultra-Cool Companions Versus Giant Planets : May 13 2012
    Astronomers have discovered an ultra-cool brown dwarf that is more than 99% hydrogen and helium. The discover could help scientists distinguish between brown dwarfs and giant planets.
  • Is a New Form of Life Really So Alien? : May 12 2012
    In a new essay, published in the journal PLoS Biology, professor Gerald Joyce of the Scripps Research Institute examines what constitutes life and the probability of discovering new life fo
  • Large Changes in Martian Sand Dunes : May 12 2012
    NASA s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed that sand dune fields on Mars move on a scale similar to those on Earth, even though Mars atmosphere is much thinner.
  • Unseen Planet Revealed by its Gravity : May 11 2012
    By identifying small deviations in the motion of a transiting exoplanet, researchers have identified a unseen companion planet around the Sun-like star, KOI-872. It is the first time this technique ha
  • Vesta Collision Occurred More Recently Than Thought : May 11 2012
    New research shows that a giant impact crater on the Asteroid (4) Vesta was created much more recently than previously thought.
  • Seeing the Light of a SuperEarth : May 10 2012
    For the first time, astronomers have detected light emanating from a super-Earth orbiting a distant star. The planet is not habitable, but the detection is a step toward the eventual search for sign
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