Astrobiology
How Plants May Have Helped Create Earth’s Unique Landscapes
[/caption] According to conventional thinking, plant life first took hold on Earth after oceans and rivers formed; the soil produced…
Looks Like We’re Still Looking for Earthly Life Forms on Other Planets
[/caption] In late 2010, NASA set the Internet buzzing when it called a press conference to discuss an astrobiological finding…
Key Step in Evolution Replicated by Scientists – With Yeast
[/caption] One of the great puzzles in science has been the evolution of single-celled organisms into the incredibly wide variety…
What if the Earth had Two Moons?
The idea of an Earth with two moons has been a science fiction staple for decades. More recently, real possibilities…
Phobos-Grunt Predicted to Fall in Afghanistan on January 14
[/caption] According to a news report in RiaNovosti, Russia’s Phobos-Grunt spacecraft will fall January 14th, "somewhere between 30.7 degrees north…
New Study Says Large Regions of Mars Could Sustain Life
[/caption] The question of whether present-day Mars could be habitable, and to what extent, has been the focus of long-running…
The Habitable Exoplanets Catalog is Now Online!
[/caption] Anyone who has an interest in exoplanets probably knows about the various online catalogs that have become available in…
Kepler Confirms First Planet in Habitable Zone of Sun-Like Star
[/caption] Scientists from the Kepler mission announced this morning the first confirmed exoplanet orbiting in the habitable zone of a Sun-like…
Why Silicon-based Aliens Would Rather Eat our Cities than Us: Thoughts on Non-carbon Astrobiology
[/caption] Editor's note: Bruce Dorminey, science journalist and author of "Distant Wanderers: The Search for Planets Beyond the Solar System,"…
Could Curiosity Determine if Viking Found Life on Mars?
[/caption] One of the most controversial and long-debated aspects of Mars exploration has been the results of the Viking landers'…