A team of astronomers at the Carnegie Institution for Science, in Washington, DC, announces the discovery of an extrasolar planet that is potentially habitable. In fact, this particular world is the most likely to support both liquid water and life of all the exoplanets that were confirmed thus far.
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3 February 2012
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The NASA Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity found traces of the mineral jarosite on the surface of the Red Planet some time ago. Since then, investigators at the Syracuse University have been trying to determine how to best use the material in order to determine when liquid water flowed on Mars.
The mineral can also... |
21 October 2011
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According to investigators based at the Planetary Science Institute (PSI), two landscape features recently discovered on the surface of the Red Planet may very well represent former hotspots for life.
The team behind the new study explains that a NASA orbiter was able to identify two small depressions on the Marti... |
22 September 2011
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Despite missing liquid water, the atmosphere surrounding Saturn's largest moon, Titan, seems to be perfectly capable of producing DNA molecules, or at least some of the chemical precursors leading to these molecules. Scientists say that the “chain of life” may have already appeared high above the moo... |
25 August 2011
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The latest studies carried out on the surface of Mars leave no doubt that large amounts of water once flowed on the surface of our neighboring planet. What researchers are pondering now is what the fossilized deltas and canals are hiding.Evidence that the Red Planet even had an ocean in its northern hemisphere once, ... |
18 August 2011
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Experts proposed back in 2010 that the faint young Sun paradox had finally been solved. However, studies conducted this year indicate the paradox to be pretty much in place. As such, an explanation for it is still needed and sought for. The paradox refers to the contradictions that develop between theories explaining... |
31 May 2011
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Scientists operating the NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) have just released a new image of a landscape feature that may provide additional evidence to support the view that liquid water once flowed on the Red Planet.
The area of interest was imaged from orbit, experts say, and is located along the northern... |
9 May 2011
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Though researchers have been proposing for a very long time that comets contain vast amounts of water, this was never conclusively proven until only recently. A team of experts managed to get definite proof that the liquid can be found within these space wanderers. Importantly, the debate that raged on in the interna... |
6 April 2011
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New radar investigations with NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter probing the north pole of Mars revealed that the Red Planet is much colder than previously believed, meaning that any previous hope of finding liquid water near the surface of the planet has been shattered. Nevertheless, liquid water could still be... |
16 May 2008
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It is possible that there may have been much weather on Mars in its distant past. If true that hydrothermal springs could have easily appeared on its surface; and where there are hydrothermal springs, there is a good change that life is as well. There have been several claims in the past that hot springs were spotted... |
25 April 2008
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In 1996, the first ever when a planet outside the solar system has been detected, by measuring the wobble in the stars' position, as the planet pulled on its surface. Since then, more than 250 exoplanets have been discovered; however most of them either are gas giants, or do not present the necessary properties ... |
13 December 2007
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