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»» NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Spacecraft Detects Buried Glaciers on Mars
[Thursday, November 20, 2008] NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed vast Martian glaciers of water ice under protective blankets of rocky debris at much lower latitudes than any ice previously identified on the Red Planet.
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»» Site List Narrows For NASA's Next Mars Landing
[Wednesday, November 19, 2008] Four intriguing places on Mars have risen to the final round as NASA selects a landing site for its next Mars mission, the Mars Science Laboratory.
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»» Gamma-Ray Evidence Suggests Ancient Mars Had Oceans
[Monday, November 17, 2008] An international team of scientists who analyzed data from the Gamma Ray Spectrometer onboard NASA's Mars Odyssey reports new evidence for the controversial idea that oceans once covered about a third of ancient Mars.
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»» Astrobiology Curriculum Pilot To Kick-Off Maine STEM Initiative
[Sunday, November 16, 2008] The pilot-test of an NAI-supported curriculum entitled Astrobiology: An Integrated Science Approach will help kick-off the State of Maine's new STEM Initiative.
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»» NAI Teams with ASM to Share Astrobiology at National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT) Conference
[Sunday, November 16, 2008] A new collaboration between NAI and the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) enabled the production of a special astrobiology-themed event at this year's NABT 2008 Professional Development Conference.
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»» Complex systems and Mars missions help understand how life began
[Friday, November 14, 2008] Understanding how life started remains a major challenge for science. At a European Science Foundation (ESF) and COST 'Frontiers of Science' conference in Sicily in October, scientists discussed two new approaches to the problem.
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»» Dusty Shock Waves Generate Planet Ingredients
[Tuesday, November 11, 2008] Shock waves around dusty, young stars might be creating the raw materials for planets, according to new observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
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»» Life's Boiling Point
[Monday, November 10, 2008] Heat-loving organisms live where the water is hot but the gene pool is shallow. Genetic analysis has shown that so-called thermophiles have fewer mutations in their protein-coding genes than do their microbial cousins that live at room temperature.
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»» Hubble Announces A Major Extrasolar Planet Discovery
[Friday, November 7, 2008] NASA will hold a Science Update to report on a significant discovery about planets orbiting other stars at 2:30 p.m. EST, Thursday, Nov. 13, in NASA's James E. Webb auditorium.
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»» Very cold ice films in laboratory reveal mysteries of universe. Could life have started in a lump of ice?
[Thursday, November 6, 2008] The universe is full of water, mostly in the form of very cold ice films deposited on interstellar dust particles, but until recently little was known about the detailed small scale structure.
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