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»» COROT's new find orbits Sun-like star
[Thursday, July 24, 2008] A team of European scientists working with COROT have discovered an exoplanet orbiting a star slightly more massive than the Sun.
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»» NASA, USDA Sign Space Station Research Agreement
[Wednesday, July 23, 2008] Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison hosted NASA Administrator Michael Griffin and Secretary of Agriculture Edward T. Schafer during the signing of a MOU to enable the USDA ARS to conduct plant related research on the International Space Station.
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»» NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Prepares For Next Sample Analysis
[Wednesday, July 23, 2008] The latest activities of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander have moved the mission closer to analyzing a sample of material, possibly icy soil, from a hard layer at the bottom of a shallow trench beside the lander.
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»» Mars Sample Return: bridging robotic and human exploration
[Wednesday, July 23, 2008] The first robotic mission to return samples to Earth from Mars took a further step toward realisation with the recent publication of a mission design report by the iMARS Working Group.
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»» Microbes beneath sea floor genetically distinct
[Tuesday, July 22, 2008] Tiny microbes beneath the sea floor, distinct from life on the Earth's surface, may account for one-tenth of the Earth's living biomass, but many of these minute creatures are living on a geologic timescale.
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»» NASA Spitzer Telescope Reveals No Organics Zone Around Pinwheel Galaxy
[Tuesday, July 22, 2008] The Pinwheel galaxy is gussied up in infrared light in a new picture from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
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»» NASA'S Phoenix Mars Lander Works Through the Night
[Monday, July 21, 2008] To coordinate with observations made by an orbiter flying repeatedly overhead, NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is working a schedule Monday that includes staying awake all night for the first time.
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»» NASA's Deep Impact Films Earth as an Alien World
[Thursday, July 17, 2008] NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft has created a video of the moon transiting (passing in front of) Earth as seen from the spacecraft's point of view 31 million miles away. Scientists are using the video to develop techniques to study alien worlds.
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»» NASA's Use of Human Cadavers In Testing the Design of the Orion Spacecraft
[Thursday, July 17, 2008] I recently learned that NASA has made some limited use of human cadavers in testing during the development of the Orion spacecraft. As you will see, there is a practical reason for using this approach.
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»» Tunguska catastrophe: Evidence of acid rain supports meteorite theory
[Wednesday, July 16, 2008] The Tunguska catastrophe in 1908 evidently led to high levels of acid rain. This is the conclusion reached by Russian, Italian and German researchers based on the results of analyses of peat profiles taken from the disaster region.
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